Example sentences of "stir up trouble " in BNC.

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1 Moet reckons the wannabes ( or ‘ customers ’ ) have n't only stirred up trouble , but have spoiled a good thing with their inept boosting methods .
2 The sensual Margaret Tudor very quickly stirred up trouble by taking a second husband , the sixth Earl of Angus — a Red Douglas , who proved to be a greedy bully and unsuitable either as a husband or a stepfather .
3 They would have stirred up trouble for nothing .
4 An agitated old lady addressed Ramsey severely and asked why he did not go back to his own country and do good there instead of stirring up trouble in the United States .
5 Early in 1935 Göring assured Ambassador Lipski that , far from stirring up trouble in the border , Danzig was quiet only because the Nazis were in control .
6 ‘ I can only assume they either think he 'll be too busy with other matters or that he 'll be stirring up trouble .
7 While all this was going on agents of Naggaroth were abroad throughout the Old World stirring up trouble .
8 For the most part other trade union leaders of the day accepted that the Federation was an active agent in stirring up trouble for Wilson .
9 So too did many others , on both sides of the Pennines , not all of them obeying the mischievous hints of Captain Goldsborough , of course — since even he could not have been in so many places all at once — but intent on stirring up trouble nevertheless .
10 He would he 'd been identified as a character that was at least stirring up trouble , but gradually this filtered through to the authorities .
11 Jane had driven over to Zoe 's in happy anticipation of stirring up trouble : the other woman 's clothes and beads were tangible evidence of Lowell 's love affair .
12 write to him as well disgusting , as if you do n't , you do n't need that sort of aggravation from a teacher stirring up trouble like that making the kids making him a laughing stock , he does not need that , its just not on is it ? , and as he says I 'm sure she does it on purpose .
13 Charles the Bald was presumably not seeking to stir up trouble in Corbie .
14 Brogan , Kerrigan and Mullen are tryin' to stir up trouble against your two lads . ’
15 ‘ At the end of the interview he accused me of trying to stir up trouble , refused to shake my hand and stormed off .
16 Their duties were varied : to send back information to England , to negotiate with the government to which they were accredited , and , occasionally , to stir up trouble abroad .
17 For example , it meant that whenever the King of France wanted to stir up trouble , he always had a legitimate grievance to hand .
18 A good in-house person makes a list of issues likely to stir up trouble in the media or public sector , and keeps it up to date .
19 " There are outside forces in Russia and China trying to stir up trouble for us here . "
20 We can not allow them … the neo-Nazis … to stir up trouble .
21 He dealt firmly with the attempts of the union movement to stir up trouble and efficiently with the problems created by Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia 's state visit , as well as with the great occasion of the coronation .
22 Since you arrived , ever since she picked up the … vibrations between us , that first lunchtime , she has done everything in her power to stir up trouble , including that episode in my office , and tonight 's performance .
23 Coffee at No 11 stirs up trouble
24 Whenever there is a chance , she and her partners will emerge and stir up trouble .
25 Do n't deliberately stir up trouble .
26 Palace courtiers often aligned themselves with one or other marriage partner and that would stir up trouble between them .
27 How could freedom of expression be put at risk merely by the Government 's saying to any one individual ( the Second Vice-President was here referring to foreign capitalist press owners ) that ‘ what you have said is of no relevance in this country and will stir up trouble and mar the peace ’ ?
28 He wo n't wan na stir up trouble .
29 And , of course , if he did stir up trouble he could always be put inside again .
30 The chief minister of Sarawak , Abdul Taib Mahmud , said that the campaigners had " no right to come and stir up trouble in the state " .
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