Example sentences of "the trouble of [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | From this point onwards it was entirely unnecessary for a testator to go to the trouble of writing a general damnatio in his will . |
| 2 | Blyth saved me the trouble of suggesting a game of football by doing it himself . |
| 3 | But why should any western power go to the trouble of administering a third world country when these can simply be milked dry ? |
| 4 | " The Meeting Considering that the Island is in a backward state of Cultivation , have Resolved as an Improvement that each occupier of a 4d. land in Tillage over the whole Island shall sow in the ensuing Spring 2 pecks of Peas & Beans , and for enabling them to have proper Seed they now request that Shawfield will take the trouble of sending a Cargo of Peas & Beans to the Island in proper time … " |
| 5 | Why you would n't break a window to break a window , why you 'd go to the trouble of using a glass cutter |
| 6 | Why does an exchange go to the trouble of becoming an RIE , rather than lobbying to become an ISSRO , or simply joining the Securities and Futures Authority ( SFA ) or the SIB ? |
| 7 | ‘ But if you go to the trouble of putting a screen round the tub , what else do you do ? ’ |
| 8 | It may be asked why it was necessary to go to the trouble of carving a model which by all accounts may only have been used once , when the same procedure , in fine day would produce a mould directly . |
| 9 | You might then find that having gone to the trouble of preparing a good speech and a joke just in case , you decide that you might as well give the speech anyway ! |
| 10 | I once went to the trouble of having a pair made in the finest white doeskin but fortunately I have now outgrown such extravagances in much the same way that I have outgrown the petty conversations and banal posturings of those who frequent literary gatherings or , worse , television studio canteens . |
| 11 | I 'd even gone to the trouble of finding a real piece of rattan jog — the dried bark which gives a deep red colour to the dish — in the fifth Punjabi deli I 'd tried . |