Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] the trouble " in BNC.

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1 " Did you hear about the trouble the big Michelin plantation as Phu Rieng has been having with " red peril " agitators ? "
2 Anyone inclined to question the advisability of monogamy should read of the troubles of Jacob , David and others who took more than one wife .
3 One can only hope that policy-makers ( and knee-jerk media pundits ) will take to the trouble to read beyond the title .
4 ‘ No-one would go to the trouble to devise such an imposture , and kill at least once , probably twice , to maintain it , just for the possibility of a few snippets of military information .
5 If you are very keen to try pressing wild flowers , do go to the trouble of checking which species are protected and be strong-willed enough to leave them well alone .
6 So you can take this even further if you want , by saying : why go to the trouble of using your hands at all ?
7 Why , when animal teeth were available and were in fact used for necklaces by the simple process of perforating their roots , did men go to the trouble to carve beads from solid ivory ?
8 Why you would n't break a window to break a window , why you 'd go to the trouble of using a glass cutter
9 ‘ Given that an angry parent might just conceivably break Gray 's neck for , as you put it , touching up his youngster , why should he go to the trouble of severing the head , and then putting it in the Cathedral font ?
10 ‘ Why did you go to the trouble of hiring me if what you wanted were the same drab old styles of before ? ’
11 She obviously assumed that I would n't go to the trouble of prosecuting her once it was in her possession . ’
12 He did n't go to the trouble of setting up a little love-nest for nothing . ’
13 Why does an exchange go to the trouble of becoming an RIE , rather than lobbying to become an ISSRO , or simply joining the Securities and Futures Authority ( SFA ) or the SIB ?
14 ‘ Believe me , I would n't go to the trouble of lying to you . ’
15 Filling a syringe , she said , ‘ This antibiotic will deal with the trouble .
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