Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the trouble " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did recall you were from Danu , so when I first read about the troubles there I became somewhat anxious on your behalf . |
| 2 | I taught for 29 years at a boy 's school and I was very aware of young people who are now serving prison sentences for crimes relating to the troubles . |
| 3 | She was the latest woman to be claimed by the Troubles . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I have you and all at your magazine to thank for your support , but listening to the troubles of fishkeepers on the telephone and when meeting them over the last twelve months I am left in no doubt that there is a vast array of undetectable contaminants in our tapwater , apart from just chlorine , which consistently depress fish condition and render them less able to resist stress and infection . |
| 6 | Well , that tie broke and my trousers kept coming down ; and that added to the trouble . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And , further , in areas like Easton , where there is very little crime related to the troubles , the police do not on the whole develop the attitude that law and order is a battle between the RUC and Catholics . |
| 9 | But inasmuch as these two chapters show that routine policing exists in the province , they are useful as a corrective to the folk model of policing in Northern Ireland , which assumes that all policing is related to the troubles ; that police officers have been brutalized as a result of their baton guns , face masks , and riot shields ; and that they know or prefer no other mode of police work . |
| 10 | In particular it challenges a prevalent tendency to compartmentalise the study of ‘ abnormal ’ issues ( that is , those related to the troubles ) from ‘ normal ’ issues of socio-economic change . |
| 11 | The landlord Alec Crossley kept an orderly house and his buxom blonde wife Grace was always jolly and invariably found time to listen to the troubles of her customers , even when she was hard put to it behind the counter . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ No one wants to hear about the troubles of the elderly . ’ |
| 14 | They wanted to hear about the troubles . |
| 15 | Sadly the situation did deteriorate during the seven-year war and lots of schools closed as the troubles increased . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It 's even worth going to the trouble of sending your own System file of font suitcases . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | You must then know how to cope with the trouble and judge whether to act on your own or call the vet . |
| 23 | People put it off and that is where they get in the trouble . |
| 24 | The new word quickly settled down , however , as a regular pattern began to emerge in the trouble associated with the London Hooligans . |
| 25 | At the end of the sixth book of The Faerie Queene , Spenser alludes to the troubles some of his earlier work has caused through slanders which provoked ‘ a mighty Peres displeasure ’ . |
| 26 | While ‘ Flags & Emblems ’ generally deals with terrorism and social injustice in far broader terms , a couple of the songs still refer to the troubles . |
| 27 | Profiting from the troubles in the north , he had extended his kingdom to the south and east but had temporarily forfeited his chance of becoming Emperor . |
| 28 | " Did you hear about the trouble the big Michelin plantation as Phu Rieng has been having with " red peril " agitators ? " |
| 29 | He had felt like beating her up , so it seemed a mild enough rebuke for the trouble she 'd caused him . |
| 30 | Anyone inclined to question the advisability of monogamy should read of the troubles of Jacob , David and others who took more than one wife . |