Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the trouble " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 It 's even worth going to the trouble of sending your own System file of font suitcases .
6 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 .
7 I could see it sailing over the trouble and landing on the green .
8 William suggested , because she 'd just bought Mary Ann Evans 's and was always talking about the trouble she was having finding good staff .
9 It had worried him for a moment , he had n't been quite sure what she meant , but then he reckoned she was referring to the troubles .
10 I noted then , what I had noted earlier , that , at such a juncture , he seemed to sink his own personal problems and interests in concentrating on the troubles of the other person .
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