Example sentences of "he had trouble [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had trouble feeding his 40,000-strong army as they reached the north , largely because of Wallace 's scorched earth policy , and was considering a temporary period of recuperation in Edinburgh when two treacherous Scottish lords betrayed Wallace 's whereabouts . |
| 2 | His fingers were numb and he had trouble fastening the buttons . |
| 3 | He had trouble finding them and managed to catch his finger in a filing cabinet . |
| 4 | He had trouble finding an appropriate language for the painter 's obsession with the illuminated material world . |
| 5 | He had trouble fixing his belt-buckle but his eyes did not leave mine . |
| 6 | These days he had trouble recalling the troublesome fragments of his education he had bothered to memorize in the first place ; the names of a few acquaintances were jumbled together with old verb forms and things he thought were childhood haunts turned out to be places he had only just discovered . |
| 7 | They were hard words and he had trouble saying them . |