Example sentences of "[pron] go to the trouble of " in BNC.
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1 | She come off the phone and she said , bloody hell she said that one of the rare times I go to the trouble of making myself butties for dinner , cos usually she gets a pasty or something , and I get invited out for dinner , you this Viv er , a friend of hers , you know the one that was having trouble with all that drainage underneath the |
2 | ‘ Why did you go to the trouble of hiring me if what you wanted were the same drab old styles of before ? ’ |
3 | ‘ But if you go to the trouble of putting a screen round the tub , what else do you do ? ’ |
4 | ‘ It 's frustrating when we go to the trouble of providing better facilities for away supporters and then incidents like this happen . ’ |
5 | Although the Chinese transformed rhinoceros horn into forms of customary refinement , it seems unlikely that they went to the trouble of removing agglutinated masses of hair from rhinoceros snouts and lavishing such skill on them for purely aesthetic reasons . |
6 | And afterwards they went to the trouble of calling out the Carabinieri to make sure I did n't die of exposure . |
7 | ‘ Given that an angry parent might just conceivably break Gray 's neck for , as you put it , touching up his youngster , why should he go to the trouble of severing the head , and then putting it in the Cathedral font ? |