Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the trouble " in BNC.
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| 1 | People who do n't know what they 're doing can kill birds of prey — their weight is very delicately balanced , as you 've seen from the trouble I had finding the right flying weight for Dawn . |
| 2 | Well , that tie broke and my trousers kept coming down ; and that added to the trouble . |
| 3 | On the M forty , between junctions four and five , that 's between High Wycombe and Stokenchurch , there are two narrow lanes running in both directions and there 's , er added to the trouble , there 's a contraflow at Boulter End with single-line traffic running both ways . |
| 4 | The two following drills illustrate this , the first one being an example from Dusun ( Philippines ) : A general principle is that substitution should be made at the trouble spot or as near the trouble spot as possible . |
| 5 | If someone had sat me down when I was young and said , ‘ All right , tell us your problems , ’ I do n't think I would have got into the trouble I did . |
| 6 | The main problem is that the cost of most new resistors and capacitors is now so low that it is barely worthwhile going to the trouble of removing and testing them . |
| 7 | Given full rein to run as far as they want , the plants are living very well and do n't feel in any particular danger , so there is no need for them to waste energy by perpetuating the species and going to the trouble of producing flower and setting seed . |
| 8 | It 's even worth going to the trouble of sending your own System file of font suitcases . |
| 9 | The account describes the ‘ hospitals and open stables for the reception of diseased and sick horses in the first stage of their complaints ’ … ‘ more pure stables , which are taken up by horses in physic , or patients whose complaints are not contagious ’ … stocks where ‘ all operations are performed without the trouble or hazard of casting … a perfect skeleton of a horse , to refer to in cases of lameness , fractures , etc … various paddocks , some with and some without water for the better accommodation of horses of different descriptions , whose complaints require open air , or grass , for their perfect recovery ’ . |
| 10 | So that he ca n't see what 's going on , cos she thinks if he do n't see what 's going on he wo n't bark , but he cries but I mean she should n't have them there , she 's never here so she should n't have them , I mean look at the trouble Alan had to get Jessie , because they worked , but Emma goes home every lunch time to see to Jessie from the bank , but I mean the woman one of them would n't let her have a dog , one kennels , which is how it should be , but I mean this one breed those three herself so , yeah I mean if you breed dogs yourself and you have three in the house of the same breed , what the hell do you want an alsatian for , as well but the whole point is she do n't have them as enjoyment , she do n't have them as company |
| 11 | You must then know how to cope with the trouble and judge whether to act on your own or call the vet . |
| 12 | People put it off and that is where they get in the trouble . |
| 13 | The new word quickly settled down , however , as a regular pattern began to emerge in the trouble associated with the London Hooligans . |
| 14 | " Did you hear about the trouble the big Michelin plantation as Phu Rieng has been having with " red peril " agitators ? " |
| 15 | He had felt like beating her up , so it seemed a mild enough rebuke for the trouble she 'd caused him . |
| 16 | One can only hope that policy-makers ( and knee-jerk media pundits ) will take to the trouble to read beyond the title . |
| 17 | My own guess is that there was no significant demand for free condoms ; nobody is going to go to the trouble of collecting free condoms who would not be prepared to buy them for himself . |
| 18 | From this point onwards it was entirely unnecessary for a testator to go to the trouble of writing a general damnatio in his will . |
| 19 | Why do the Continent 's environmentalists , unlike the British or American , need to go to the trouble and expense of political parties at all ? |
| 20 | It may be asked why it was necessary to go to the trouble of carving a model which by all accounts may only have been used once , when the same procedure , in fine day would produce a mould directly . |
| 21 | The high standards aimed at in such a sifting process are important if we want teachers to go to the trouble of organizing the use of our materials in their teaching . |
| 22 | Since he wanted to delay the ceremony , but did n't want to go to the trouble of desecrating any graves , he only had one option . |
| 23 | In both these cases the old plates made the necessary points , and there was no need to go to the trouble and expense of getting new ones . |
| 24 | It would be a waste of time actually to go to the trouble of filling the space itself with blanks . |
| 25 | Interesting that Bill 's going to go to the trouble of taking out windows putting in |
| 26 | WHEN Ron Dennis , the managing director of McLaren International , goes to the trouble of stressing that his team intend to continue giving Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost impartial treatment during the final two races , such a commendably even-handed approach immediately arouses suspicion in a sport governed by an organisation which is not exactly noted for its equitable methods . |
| 27 | The Epitome or Gaius ' Institutes still distinguishes between legacies and trusts , and even goes to the trouble of explaining what the difference is . |
| 28 | No one goes to the trouble to dress up compliance so elaborately . |
| 29 | It was , of course , what he tried to do with everyone that he thought worth the trouble . |
| 30 | He speaks of the trouble he has in getting paid , his fear of old age and its isolation and poverty when he can no longer work ; and he describes the privations and pains of his working conditions . |