Example sentences of "took the trouble " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he later took the trouble to add up the bill he discovered that the actual cost was Fr 1,481 , around £140 : an overcharge of £40 . |
| 2 | Only seven of the fifteen large bookstores in Moscow took the trouble to send anything out to provincial peasant reading-centres . |
| 3 | After a time it became known in other faculties that this was rather a special lecturer and people reading classics or history or the sciences took the trouble to go over to Ramsey 's lectures and swell his class . |
| 4 | Afterwards he wondered whether he visited parishes less often than his predecessor and took the trouble to work it out . |
| 5 | He also took the trouble to buy and read a new book of theology which Ramsey at that moment published ; an account of the development of English religious thought from the late Victorian age to the age of William Temple — From Gore to Temple . |
| 6 | Lewis took the trouble to transcribe what he remembered of their conversation : |
| 7 | The protest vote theory , though valid , was not sufficient to explain why 2 million adults took the trouble to vote for organic smallholders and kindred green souls who had hitherto made little impression on the political scene . |
| 8 | Because my mum took the trouble to buy a Black doll . |
| 9 | But he was a kind man and took the trouble to sit with her and show her the hope in the Bible , the comfort and joy as well as the gloom . |
| 10 | A sports writer who might previously have written ‘ a live wire mid field man ’ ( one who shows much sports man ship , presumably ) actually took the trouble to put ‘ livewire midfieldman ’ . |
| 11 | Unfortunately the result was disappointing and years later , in about 1955 , he took the trouble to have a second operation to improve its appearance . |
| 12 | He took the trouble to work on it further when it was given again the following season , eliminating the somewhat superfluous role of a pastor , for instance , and putting the women into soft shoes instead of point shoes so that the movement looked more natural . |
| 13 | Although we were only in Standard One , on the day prior to the holiday , Mr. Russ took the trouble to come to our class and explain how the election worked — how a vote was cast , placed in a sealed box , taken to the Council Chamber for counting and how the result was declared . |
| 14 | Ron was still coaching me , when I took the trouble to turn up . |
| 15 | But none took the trouble to complain , to seek out the origin , true name and the lair of Rubberneck . |
| 16 | Noting that certain of our fellow operators at Biggin appeared remarkably competitive , I took the trouble to telephone and check the rates as quoted . |
| 17 | Well , she was going to need a lot of help , that was for sure , and if someone took the trouble to put an advert in the tube , the least you could do was memorise the number . |
| 18 | Of the 22 respondents who did not support a scoreboard , 20 took the trouble to spell out the reasons for their objections . |
| 19 | But the fact that you took the trouble to ‘ phone is a point strongly in your favour … |
| 20 | In case Lord Milton missed the importance of making this change , Campbell took the trouble of repeating the request three days after first suggesting it , which was clearly long before the judge could have hoped to arrange such an alteration . |
| 21 | But it was not the same as any of them , and could not seriously be dismissed as anti-black or anti-woman by anyone who took the trouble to find out the facts ; after all , as FAMILY was fond of pointing out , one of its founders was a woman of Pakistani origin ! |
| 22 | Once again my set is now complete and I am very grateful to all those who took the trouble and interest to write to me . |
| 23 | But very few Englishmen came to know Aquitaine ; that is why Ralph of Diss took the trouble to include a lengthy description of the duchy and its inhabitants in his chronicle . |
| 24 | " She was exactly the same as she is now , but she took the trouble to hide the fact . |
| 25 | Sir Adam Thomson , the founder of British Caledonian , took the trouble to write back a most comprehensive letter , giving kindly guidance and suggesting that until Giles was old enough , he should gain useful experience in a related industry like travel . |
| 26 | The careless , the not-very-bright and the indifferent ( if they took the trouble to vote at all ) would record preferences with a similar lack of understanding of their implications . |
| 27 | Suppose that on average 80% of the 1.3 m. electors took the trouble to vote — say 1.0 m . |
| 28 | Happily , happily the statement of faith does seem to have commended itself to a much larger number of presbyteries and kirk sessions and many indeed hundreds hundreds took the trouble to offer amendments and improvements to it . |
| 29 | As I took the trouble to explain earlier , you ca n't do that . |
| 30 | Some of the village children took the trouble not long ago to collect the present-day names of the animals on the farms . |