Example sentences of "[prep] the trouble [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the trouble with the great and the good is that we expect them to be on duty the whole time . |
| 2 | Er the trouble about the trouble with the fifties and er actually it was a very good programme er for reminiscing about the fifties . |
| 3 | But Mary was out so I gave him the letter and began to tell him about the trouble at home . |
| 4 | It appeared that Lord Coleworthy had heard all about the trouble from Fairfax and was trying to be a peacemaker . |
| 5 | Items of value , real or sentimental , are worth the trouble of proper storage . |
| 6 | Is is worth the trouble of allowing members to propose resolutions ? |
| 7 | In such cases it would be worth the trouble of introducing worms from elsewhere . |
| 8 | To give this impression would ensure shipwreck on a reef which we shall in any case be lucky to avoid , the indifference of the reader who takes it for granted that we are trying to deduce imperatives from the facts of which one ought to be aware , and assumes in advance that there has to be a flaw somewhere , hardly worth the trouble of locating , as in a new proposal for a perpetual-motion machine . |
| 9 | After the trouble with the coal , Peter was afraid of seeing the Station Master again . |
| 10 | Part of the trouble with Harwich is it 's neither one thing nor the other . ’ |
| 11 | By some kind of irony this was exactly the reverse of the trouble with masonry cathedrals which fell down because they turned out to be in tension when the builders held that they were in compression . |
| 12 | Wood is not a material which suffers fools gladly and a great deal of the trouble with wooden aeroplanes was due to wooden people . |
| 13 | It was also the cause of much of the trouble with Elfed . |
| 14 | He says the force has started to crack down on rural violence and he blamed much of the trouble on young people drinking too much . |
| 15 | I think she 'd become a habit with him , if you know what I mean — and of course she was at the root of the trouble between Silas and me . ’ |
| 16 | Mr Roskha said of the trouble in Kishinyev : ‘ Several thousand people from the Popular Front and other groups broke through cordons of police and climbed on to the tanks and armoured personnel carriers , waving banners and chanting slogans . |
| 17 | For instance , part of the trouble in the clean-air example is that nobody owns the air ; if somebody did , polluters would not be able to dirty it with impunity . |
| 18 | But this dichotomy is , itself , a great deal of the trouble in St Ann 's . |
| 19 | It was their own form-master Sam Sylvester who got them into the trouble in the first place . |
| 20 | ‘ But then he got her into the trouble in the first place . |
| 21 | Another process is sometimes adopted for getting rid of the sediment without the trouble of decanting in this mode ; the bottles are reserved in a frame proper for the purpose , for a certain number of days , so as to permit the foulness to fall into the neck ; while in this position , the cork is dexterously withdrawn and that portion of the wine that is foul , allowed to escape , after which the bottle is filled with clear wine , permanently corked and secured with wire . |
| 22 | Taxis are available for hire for full- or half-day excursions , and the cost for four compares very well with hiring a car for a day — without the trouble of driving yourself . |
| 23 | They came down the steps of the hotel with their Kodaks — at the Continental there was always a large number of Americans — and were immediately fallen upon by dragomans , donkey-boys and street-traders of all kinds , all offering instant picturesqueness without the trouble of having to go too far in the heat to find it . |
| 24 | Some states even go to the trouble of having two switches , one a ‘ dummy ’ , so that everyone can say , ‘ it was n't me who actually killed him ’ . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I once went to the trouble of having a pair made in the finest white doeskin but fortunately I have now outgrown such extravagances in much the same way that I have outgrown the petty conversations and banal posturings of those who frequent literary gatherings or , worse , television studio canteens . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Senior mandarins had gone to the trouble of finding accommodation for Labour 's promised Ministry for Women . |
| 29 | William Houstoun went to the trouble of making drawings in the West Indies , which he bequeathed to Philip Miller and from these Sir Joseph Banks published the engravings as Reliquiae Houstounianae ( 1781 ) . |
| 30 | From this point onwards it was entirely unnecessary for a testator to go to the trouble of writing a general damnatio in his will . |