Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the trouble " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was the latest woman to be claimed by the Troubles . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Sadly the situation did deteriorate during the seven-year war and lots of schools closed as the troubles increased . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 | Senior mandarins had gone to the trouble of finding accommodation for Labour 's promised Ministry for Women . |
| 11 | Who had gone to the trouble of making such notes ? |
| 12 | At any rate , it was difficult to see that the FAA had any good reason not to implement the very important recommendations made by their own US investigating authority , the NTSB , after the Windsor accident , especially as the RLD had gone to the trouble of flying to Los Angeles to make their point . |
| 13 | Numerous trials have evaluated the various procedures performed during pregnancy and labour ( Iain Chalmers has even gone to the trouble of collating them ) but very few of these ideas have changed obstetric practice . |
| 14 | 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 ! |
| 15 | " He could have given me a ticking off , considering that he 'd gone to the trouble of telling me that you were coming . |
| 16 | More importantly , it 's er conveys to the client that we care about quality , that we 've gone to the trouble to set up procedures which make our product as good as it possibly can be . |
| 17 | She was being carried at considerably over the legal speed-limit towards an unknown destination — and quite possibly what a Victorian heroine would have regarded as a ‘ fate worse than death ’ , since she could hardly imagine that Luke had gone to the trouble of virtually kidnapping her in order to spend a quiet weekend playing Scrabble . |
| 18 | ‘ And , ’ he pursued pleasantly , ‘ I certainly had n't guessed that you had actually gone to the trouble of speculating on my reactions — to illness or to anything else , ’ he added quietly . |
| 19 | But I grant you there are not many would have gone to the trouble . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | If people have gone to the trouble and expense of referring |
| 22 | I wonder how many times in the past , when you 've been staying here , you 've gone to the trouble of escorting Kirsty to school ? ’ |
| 23 | I was led into all these commitments in a very friendly and deferential spirit , and in a similar spirit of friendship and hospitality I was invited to numerous social engagements , from impressive lunch in honour of the Minister of Education to an invitation to a private home in Jaipur , where my kind host and hostess had gone to the trouble of preparing sandwiches , cake , chips ( without the fish ) and pudding , in case I should not like the Indian dishes served for the other guests ! |
| 24 | I mean I have gone to the trouble , I have been in to see the planning officer that 's dealing with it , erm I 've written to every single member of the planning committee , I 've written to the Environmental Health who have written back to me saying they offer no objections and there because the smell wo n't be a problem so I 've written them back another stinking letter and saying well erm |
| 25 | Mr Reynolds looked back also to an era of ‘ bureaucratic and commercial indifference which was perhaps understandable in the light of history but nevertheless misguided ’ and which resulted in even more destruction than was caused by the Troubles , such as of Coole Park ( the inspiration for two of Yeats 's most famous poems ) and of Bowenscourt in the 1960s , as well as much of Dublin 's eighteenth-century architecture . |
| 26 | Over the years he has done a marvellous job enthusiastically promoting the theatre and bringing world-class productions to local audiences in spite of the difficulties posed by the Troubles . |
| 27 | The chief secretary warned of the trouble it could cause if Eva moved the family . |