Example sentences of "to [det] trouble " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I could n't put you to that trouble . |
| 2 | Oliver interrupted with : ‘ No one would go to that trouble to hide a box of talcum powder . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Well , I do n't know why anyone should go to that trouble . |
| 4 | So although he has gone to some trouble to leave tracks across his own land at Highgrove specially for the local hunt , the Beaufort , he hardly ever joins them . |
| 5 | Go to some trouble to make a proper start to your programme . |
| 6 | He had spoken to Paul Guillaume , an ambitious and knowledgeable young dealer , about Modigliani and went to some trouble to arrange an introduction . |
| 7 | I had been asked for a full text of the sermon , to be printed in the society minutes and had gone to some trouble to prepare for the occasion . |
| 8 | Sure , they screamed and ran away ( hoping to be chased , no doubt ) then turned to us , shouting abuse ; one wee lassie whom I fancied strongly ( her dad was a special constable , this being the year of the General Strike , 1926 ) had evidently gone to some trouble by composing the following ditty : |
| 9 | Signs that you have gone to some trouble to find out about the firm will be very much in your favour . |
| 10 | ‘ We went to some trouble to explain the administrative , advertising and fundraising costs , ’ says John Tame . |
| 11 | Those who use the term ‘ paragraph ’ to describe a unit in the structural analysis of written discourse go to some trouble to point out that they are not describing the orthographic paragraph . |
| 12 | The 1693 title-page calls attention to ‘ Alterations , Additions , and several new SONGS ’ , which is fair enough : Tonson had gone to some trouble to update it . |
| 13 | Having gone to some trouble to obtain high quality sample preparations , it is important to realize their potential by using appropriate techniques when studying them . |
| 14 | This goes to some trouble to refute the idea that population growth is desirable and will not cause ecological damage . |
| 15 | Sir Ralph Grunte had gone to some trouble over his constituency dinner party , La Noblesse being by no means cheap . |
| 16 | It is worth going to some trouble to ensure that those involved understand that they are not facing an inquisition or a witch hunt but directly influencing management in their area . |
| 17 | Henry had copies of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle identifiable with our C and E , and went to some trouble to re-order his material so that his account of early English history was clearer than that of his sources ; Florence helped his readers by prefacing his work with lists of bishops of English sees and genealogies of English royal dynasties . |
| 18 | Staff will go to some trouble to enable families to attend . |
| 19 | Nettie , after all , had gone to some trouble , with dishes of peppermint fondants and dark after-dinner chocolates , in addition to the steaming silver coffee-pot and the matching silver jug of thick fresh cream . |
| 20 | He 'd been right about Mrs Aitken having gone to some trouble . |
| 21 | We do not think that they should have been put to this trouble we defend the status quo in the Scottish Bus Group . |
| 22 | You know why do we go to this trouble ? |
| 23 | You had to go to such trouble to persuade the subject to accept the poison and when ( or rather , in his case if ) you managed it , your very intimacy made it all too clear to everyone that you were the one who was slipping them the doctored crumble , the dodgy spaghetti bolognese or the potato salad unusually rich in mineral salts . |
| 24 | But presumably he must have taken a shine , as the expression went , to Celia , particularly as he had gone to such trouble to seek her out and visit her at the Meadhaven Clinic . |
| 25 | But why do Sharwood 's go to such trouble and expense when other people make do with so much less ? |
| 26 | The West German agencies , having gone to such trouble to retrieve the missing items , have decided that the treasury needs to be brought up to scratch , so the Kulturstiftung der Länder , the clothing stores C.&A . |
| 27 | When I look back , I am amazed that Eliot should have even contemplated going to such trouble on our behalf . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'll baby-sit the kids , ’ Carole insisted over Laura 's blushing and increasingly desperate protests that there was no need to go to such trouble . |
| 29 | We phoned a good , dear friend who as a midwife had gone to much trouble and arranged to deliver the baby . |
| 30 | And it was a fact that William and Preston together led to more trouble than Preston alone , or Preston and any combination of other boys . |