Example sentences of "[prep] trouble " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know me , Danny , I do n't go roun' askin' fer trouble but this geezer got me goin' . |
| 2 | The FA made Birmingham 's away matches all-ticket after trouble at Crystal Palace last season and Chief Supt Kenneth McKay , head of Blackpool police , said fans without tickets caused most of the trouble . |
| 3 | Profitt , Michael Cook , 18 , Adrian Sinclair , 19 , and Lee Scrivens , 19 , all from Birmingham , admitted theft charges ; another six City supporters were also remanded in custody or on bail , and 23 were fined a total of £8,600 for admitting charges arising from a weekend in the Lancashire resort which a Football Association inquiry may punish by banning City supporters from remaining away games ; all their away matches were made all-ticket for an indefinite period after trouble last season at Crystal Palace . |
| 4 | A hundred and thirty three Manchester United fans are appearing in court in Istanbul after trouble at a hotel . |
| 5 | At one point , ‘ all he sought was death ’ ; and the next paragraph has him aching to be ‘ out of the road of trouble and strife and all things rotten and putrefied and shitey ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ You 've been to a lot of trouble over this , Paul , thank you . |
| 7 | A regular walk around the garden to make sure everything is growing healthily is the simplest precaution of all , often revealing preliminary signs of trouble . |
| 8 | but then her anger seemed to have woken her and she continued , ‘ I know you went to a lot of trouble over the meal , but my brother 's sexual proclivities are n't any of your business , or mine either . ’ |
| 9 | The perfect joint responds to a couple taps : any stiffer and you can be in seven sorts of trouble . |
| 10 | Voters do not instinctively turn to Labour in time of trouble . |
| 11 | True , he went to a lot of trouble to make his performance as authentic as possible ( 'he wo n't be satisfied till he 's assassinated , ’ friends used to say ) , but in the end what we see is still Massey , not Lincoln . |
| 12 | East Germany 's workers ' militias , which have 400,000 members , are standing by all over the country to help to clamp down in case of trouble . |
| 13 | ‘ You 've got to be careful : they cause lots of trouble , ’ said Manoel , glancing nervously at the groups of patrolling military police and the slate-grey truck used to cart away vagrant minors who spend their days here sniffing glue , bathing in fountains , picking pockets and sleeping rough . |
| 14 | The ‘ good ’ policemen and women know their area : the sites of trouble and danger , as Holdaway describes them ( 1983 : 39–42 ) , which need special attention , the places to avoid without having further back-up , the places where events and incidents have occurred in the past , the people on whom to focus attention , such as the ‘ troublesome families ’ in whom crime historically runs or the VIPs in the area who get special protective care . |
| 15 | Date it and place it in the safe keeping of a bank manager or a solicitor ( although these professionals often do n't like doing this , as it is a lot of trouble ) . |
| 16 | Whenever there 's a whiff of trouble she takes to her bed with the asthma . |
| 17 | It 's OK in a caff — you can just ask for egg and chips or if they have pictures you can just point , but I think I might have trouble in a restaurant cos you got to read from a menu thing , and I have a bit of trouble with my reading . |
| 18 | In case of trouble when handling prisoners , alarms are positioned at strategic points around the prison . |
| 19 | Devising ways to keep younger children out of care and older children out of trouble . |
| 20 | Are you in some kind of trouble ? |
| 21 | In spite of what Millichip believes , the need to minimise the possibility of trouble from England 's fans has everything to do with their playing in Sardinia . |
| 22 | In spite of what Millichip believes , the need to minimise the possibility of trouble from England 's fans has everything to do with their playing in Sardinia . |
| 23 | You realize all this will cause you no end of trouble ? |
| 24 | and remember — when you 're adolescent you can make a lot of trouble for yourself . ’ |
| 25 | as he half knew , he would be asked to acquiesce in some lunatic scheme for pulling Tristram out of trouble , and saw her for a moment from a position of detachment : a tall young woman looking younger than her twenty-nine years . |
| 26 | When recession struck the oil-pumping south-west in the 1980s , thrifts in Texas and elsewhere pleaded for a relaxation of capital standards to help them grow out of trouble . |
| 27 | After the price wars of the late 1970s , when many supermarkets were still conspicuous mostly for their general ugliness and grubbiness , the big chains decided to invest their way out of trouble . |
| 28 | Chapter 11 works by allowing top management to get the firm out of trouble by drawing up a rescue plan that can involve restructuring the firm and writing down creditors ' claims on its assets . |
| 29 | Its supporters in the streets may melt away at the first sign of trouble . |
| 30 | In times of trouble , therefore , they tend to keep a bigger share of their portfolio at home and sell some foreign assets . |