Example sentences of "[prep] the trouble [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thank you Sylvia for the trouble you have taken . |
| 2 | He had felt like beating her up , so it seemed a mild enough rebuke for the trouble she 'd caused him . |
| 3 | Christina warmed to her and was glad for the trouble she 'd taken on the Morris 's account . |
| 4 | Quietly as a mouse , Lalage picked her up and , candlestick in hand , went carefully through the darkened house to the hall door where she waited , the candle flame blowing flat and sideways , until Nettie came back , grateful and apologetic for the trouble she had given . |
| 5 | He meant to hurt her , to have his revenge for the trouble she and her family had caused . |
| 6 | William suggested , because she 'd just bought Mary Ann Evans 's and was always talking about the trouble she was having finding good staff . |
| 7 | He had no illusions about the trouble she was in . |
| 8 | I 'd gone across to the old folks ' home to have a chat with Maureen and , inevitably , I was telling her about the trouble I was having . |
| 9 | One reason for this resistance might be the common idea that language is ‘ trivial ’ , so linguistic reforms are not worth the trouble they cause . |
| 10 | Apparently , a lot of the trouble they had was her father ! |
| 11 | After the hearing in the court Alison Draper , who lives near the station , said : ‘ Nearly all the people here are against the festival because of the trouble we had to put up with last year . |
| 12 | The chief secretary warned of the trouble it could cause if Eva moved the family . |
| 13 | On 24 June she wrote her final thank you to the architect , asking him to accept a signed photograph of herself ‘ in remembrance of the trouble you have taken concerning my beautiful Dolls ' House ’ . |
| 14 | When I think of the trouble you caused because you could n't keep your private parts to yourself ! |
| 15 | Now you regret it and not because of the trouble I 'll get into but the trouble you 'll get into . ’ |
| 16 | I was afraid to go back home for fear of the trouble I 'd be in from Mum . |
| 17 | And though I am well aware that you , Kim , are the main cause of the trouble I have no alternative but to punish all three of you . " |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Since Richard held Seillan responsible for much of the trouble he refused to release him , either for a ransom or in exchange for prisoners taken by Count Raymond , even though these now included two of King Henry 's household knights , who had apparently wandered into the territory of Toulouse on their way back from the shrine of Compostella . |
| 20 | But when I think of the trouble she 's caused ! ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Not when I think of the trouble she 's caused , and she 'd cause more if she got the chance . ’ |
| 22 | When I say we 've got some trouble , we do , but it 's not like the trouble we had half an hour ago , when in fact there were three lines , sections of which there were no trains on at all . |
| 23 | we did , we did try to pu well , as I say , with the trouble we had upstairs , we just thought it just was n't worth our while to sort of mess |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ That 'll be light to the trouble I 'll be in soon . ’ |
| 27 | The lift of autumn in the air went contrary to the trouble she could not make herself consider . |
| 28 | Killion cackled with pleasure at the trouble he was causing . |