Example sentences of "was having trouble " in BNC.

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1 ‘ She was having trouble with a piece of chewing gum and it was my way of saying thank you .
2 Feeling frustrated , he took the offer , in 1951 , of a three-month posting to BRM , which was having trouble with the Rolls-Royce supercharger on its V16 engine .
3 Mr Adamec said that he was having trouble recruiting such experts into the cabinet .
4 By his own admission , the man who had won a European Cup medal destroying the best defences in Europe was having trouble finding the door .
5 We 'd clear them out for the licensee if he was having trouble .
6 Then he 'd tell Phil Simpkin that he was having trouble with one of the staff , and she 'd be out on her wiggly bottom before she knew what hit her .
7 ‘ At a low point during my stay in Japan when I was having trouble with the language and the culture I phoned my father to say I was coming home , ’ recalls the black sheep with the black belt .
8 On lap forty-five , he finally got past Lauda ( who was having trouble with his gear linkage ) going up Druids and the crowd went wild .
9 He was having trouble playing it down , with a full-scale sex scandal to contend with .
10 But by the second day of the adventure , her escort was having trouble getting her out of the pool .
11 Elaine was having trouble forming the words now and George guessed that if he kept quiet she would fall asleep .
12 Didier had not taken to a foreign language and was having trouble keeping up in class .
13 He had impotency fears and I was having trouble in analysis .
14 Culley was having trouble hearing Sanchez .
15 Ted was having trouble picking out a shirt ; his sister had given him a couple of new ones last Christmas , but this was the first time that he 'd really had to study them with regard to presentability .
16 ‘ As I understand it , my friend was having trouble with a soldier .
17 My son was having trouble selling his car until he put a newly-worded advert in the local paper : ‘ … extortionately priced at £1,100 but I relish a good argument ! ’
18 Dauntless found he was having trouble remembering how to speak .
19 Over the years , Dauntless had become used to loneliness , but he suspected that for Cleo it was a new condition which she was having trouble getting used to .
20 Normally he would n't touch a job as small as the cottage , but I once did a favour for his father , and when I mentioned that I was having trouble finding someone to do the job he volunteered . ’
21 While it was n't exactly a cheerful tone , it was more animated than Faye had been since she first admitted that she was having trouble with her eyes , and Belinda knew that she would tell her husband about the problem as soon as they were alone .
22 The school was having trouble with leaks in their stainless steel hydrotherapy pool which resulted in the children being unable to use it for a number of weeks .
23 Rogers was having trouble with his gun .
24 He was having trouble with his hearing-aid .
25 Not dreadfully exciting stuff , and yet Charity could reluctantly understand why her cousin found the man intriguing and was having trouble looking away .
26 Dog agility appeals to all ages … although seven year old Daniel Treagus was having trouble with his Cavalier King Charles spaniel which refused to climb the A frame :
27 and he was having trouble with the wife were n't he secretary .
28 What about have you heard any more of her cos she was having trouble with her husband , was n't she ?
29 But if he was having trouble firing out
30 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
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