Example sentences of "[verb] been in trouble for " in BNC.

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1 Mrs Slewy has been in trouble for taking the cancer-box from the counter in Mock 's .
2 MY marriage has been in trouble for two years , ever since my husband started having affairs .
3 MY marriage has been in trouble for two years , ever since my husband started having affairs .
4 It was no secret that the couple 's weird relationship had been in trouble for some time .
5 ’ A stuffy set-up like this needs someone like me to redress the balance , ’ he would claim , usually after he had been in trouble for some misdemeanour or other .
6 He had been in trouble for the most part of his life , the eldest of the poor working class family of seven children , he had always been the black sheep .
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