Example sentences of "the trouble of [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From this point onwards it was entirely unnecessary for a testator to go to the trouble of writing a general damnatio in his will . |
| 2 | But why should any western power go to the trouble of administering a third world country when these can simply be milked dry ? |
| 3 | They rescued me from my predicament , and saved me the trouble of rewriting the entire chapter . |
| 4 | You might then find that having gone to the trouble of preparing a good speech and a joke just in case , you decide that you might as well give the speech anyway ! |
| 5 | I 'd even gone to the trouble of finding a real piece of rattan jog — the dried bark which gives a deep red colour to the dish — in the fifth Punjabi deli I 'd tried . |