Example sentences of "the trouble " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some states even go to the trouble of having two switches , one a ‘ dummy ’ , so that everyone can say , ‘ it was n't me who actually killed him ’ . |
| 2 | The trouble is that the allegation has begun to seem convincing . |
| 3 | And it 's the clash between male and non-male that causes all the trouble . |
| 4 | Amis writes here , as he has written in other books , about the distance between men and women ; here , too , is the trouble that awaits the rational hedonist who deceives the woman he lives with and loves . |
| 5 | Can this ever have been the trouble with Larkin ? |
| 6 | The trouble is , wrote Harsnet , that if you start with this insight it is difficult to go on and then the energies , the needs and desires , turn inward and eat you up . |
| 7 | The trouble with you is , he said , that you 've grown fat in your little cocoon here in London , cut off from the realities of the world . |
| 8 | That is the trouble with the boxing-match , he wrote . |
| 9 | Is the trouble at home that I am hearing of , perhaps , that someone had been — what is the expression ? — boiling the books ? ’ |
| 10 | The trouble was , Mrs Phipps did n't seem to need sympathy . |
| 11 | The trouble is , he 's going to be tied up with all this now . |
| 12 | Part of the trouble with Harwich is it 's neither one thing nor the other . ’ |
| 13 | You go to all the trouble of finding me a bed in a night shelter and you then get me so drunk they 'll refuse point-blank to let me in ! ’ |
| 14 | I 'd like to try and do something completely different , but the trouble is , what ? ’ |
| 15 | The trouble is that I am not a tea-drinker , and so my plants get only the occasional treat when guests visit . |
| 16 | The trouble is that I ca n't identify it and ca n't find it in my gardening books or in any of the books at my local library . |
| 17 | ‘ The trouble is they 've made most of them into cigar and wallpaper adverts , ’ said Lucy brightly . |
| 18 | ‘ The trouble is , Miss Galahad , this flaming green-eyed redhead has got under your skin , she 's growing with you darling , like mistletoe on an oak . |
| 19 | Menzies started to answer but Cameron put his hand on his arm , shook his head slightly , and said to Byers , ‘ I see the trouble . |
| 20 | Oh Angus — has the trouble turned his brain ? ’ |
| 21 | To avoid the trouble she had been obliged to invent a friend , a suicidal woman friend with whom she was staying that night . |
| 22 | ‘ Hey , everyone , ’ he announced , ‘ you 'll never believe what Sara 's done , the trouble she 's taken over dinner . ’ |
| 23 | The trouble is , Harriet is beautiful and her sister . |
| 24 | I began to alter my standards of hospitality , offering them my pale , cold face when their music grew louder , when they began laughing among themselves and did n't take the trouble to explain their jokes to me as they had before , or repeat their words until I understood what they were saying . |
| 25 | Then , again asking God 's forgiveness , she said that there was no God but God , and the trouble was that Westerners did n't fellow His instructions or live by His law . |
| 26 | It is , of course , money that causes almost all the trouble . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Hitachi have also taken the trouble to make the control large enough to operate when wearing thick gloves . |
| 29 | The trouble with this manoeuvre is that it can not help but demote poetry . |
| 30 | It was , of course , what he tried to do with everyone that he thought worth the trouble . |