Example sentences of "the trouble [prep] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be a waste of time actually to go to the trouble of filling the space itself with blanks . |
| 2 | The funds can reclaim tax and pay income gross , saving charities the trouble of reclaiming the tax . |
| 3 | It may well be worth trying to gum up the joint with a mastic sealant or self-adhesive bitumastic flashing rather than going to all the trouble of dismantling the system : use the sealant on the joints even if you do dismantle and reassemble them . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The high standards aimed at in such a sifting process are important if we want teachers to go to the trouble of organizing the use of our materials in their teaching . |
| 6 | They rescued me from my predicament , and saved me the trouble of rewriting the entire chapter . |
| 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 ? |
| 8 | Derek who exposed the fraud , took the trouble of consulting the police records , for Samoa , at the time when Margaret , was there , and although Margaret claimed there was no rape in Samoa , because children were brought up so nicely , in this kind of , tropical paradise that she , that she portrayed in the book , the fact is , according to the police records , there were more rapes in Samoa , while Margaret , than were occurring in New York at the time was writing , during the nineteen eighties |
| 9 | Before their confinements some women go to the trouble of having the room they are to lie in fumigated . |
| 10 | The trouble with using the term mental illness to describe this process is that illness and ‘ the mind ’ only encompass a part of it . |
| 11 | The trouble with pushing the PLA into the arms business to makes ends meet is that other ministries , to their occasional embarrassment , have little control over which weapons are sold where . |