Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] trouble " in BNC.
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| 1 | Generally , though , they are credited with believing , like the rest of us , that life is too short to go looking for unnecessary trouble . |
| 2 | ‘ Do your parents know about this trouble you 're in ? ’ |
| 3 | Cobalt took a sip from his glass , then resumed : ‘ Yesterday he rang with a yarn about some trouble at the hotel . |
| 4 | Anyone who simply returns to the same repetitive activity is heading for further trouble — especially if their technique is at fault . |
| 5 | Fif always seems a little surly with me , because he blames me for some trouble he had on another world . |
| 6 | Course I immediately darted back in the house and told me dad and well , and er he says er , you can look out for some trouble then now like , you know and er , nothing happened . |
| 7 | I can tell you you 're in for some trouble if you start that because I I is you you 're all in trouble if you want to start these smaller committees , we have looked at the committees and as I say we make no apology for the number of committees or the number that 's on 'em . |
| 8 | Is there any connection between this trouble with Monsieur Nadirpur and the release of my Philippe ? ’ |
| 9 | After serious trouble at Sham gigs , for example the one at the London School of Economics , they also deserted their followers . |
| 10 | Those in financial trouble who knew of the money advice services but chose to ignore them , or who were unaware of their existence , and as a result let their indebtedness , once just manageable , become unmanageable , were heading for real trouble . |
| 11 | The oil minister suggested that this would be as serious as physical closure , in which case ‘ we are heading for real trouble ’ . |
| 12 | The rules were imposed on privatised companies in the wake of political trouble over the lucrative sale of undervalued assets like British Aerospace 's disposal of Royal Ordnance factories which had been in the public sector for centuries . |
| 13 | I have had a long history of muscular trouble , of a weak back . |
| 14 | We have seen that it is communication with another person who is experiencing some kind of emotional trouble , or acting under stress in some way . |
| 15 | On the intelligence assessment of possible trouble with the Argentines in the South Atlantic , you say the intelligence assessments were it might boil up in … |
| 16 | Other signs of possible trouble are when Koi ‘ flick ’ or ‘ flash ’ against objects in the pond exposing their lighter underparts with a characteristic glint ; or when they repeatedly leap clear of the water . |
| 17 | The sources of that trouble were twofold . |
| 18 | I mean , ranking of the countries descending as business in the way it changes , and Japan comes first , Germany 's gone down in recent years because of that trouble , but America has consistently been the major investor in this country . |
| 19 | The Museum of Transport was pleased with the result and now knows where to come to drive out other pests and steer clear of further trouble . |
| 20 | It had proved quite an exciting substitute for lost love , and a pacifier in that time of grave trouble . |
| 21 | Er , if only Darwin had opened it , Darwin would have saved himself an , all , load of old trouble . |
| 22 | but I know it cos the other week when I had to work till half past eight for Peter , he was having a dinner party and erm we went down there , I had to go shopping with him , he made me die cos he asked me if I 'd work a bit later and I said yeah I need the money , so I 'll work later so er he made me die because he said in this flare up , this argument when when I worked that day , I mean , I worked all day , I had nothing to eat and I could n't eat af , you know , cos of this trouble I could n't eat after |
| 23 | There 's lads of real trouble there , but there was lads you know young lads with kids and mortgages and and we had er he I 'm sixty all your worries are over are n't they . |
| 24 | Mark McKay , the Great Britain amateur team rider who missed taking a lead in the King of the Mountains competition because of mechanical trouble , gained his reward at last . |
| 25 | Her father had been an invalid from the First World War — some kind of nervous trouble , I believe . |
| 26 | For a recurrent ( re-do ) hernia the chances are even higher ( somewhere between a 1 in 20 and a 1 in 3 chance of future trouble ) . |
| 27 | It was leaving it a little bit late , even if there was the possibility of serious trouble in the summer , not to be talking about it . |
| 28 | Looking back , it seemed inevitable that Evelyn would go down with some sort of psychological trouble . |
| 29 | He views the violence as ‘ a Friday night thing ’ , ie the sort of random trouble that happens all over America . |
| 30 | Studies show that up to 40 per cent of expatriate US executives fail on foreign assignments , and have to be sent home , and that expatriate managers are increasingly considered by the TNCs to be a source of avoidable trouble and expense ( Harvey , 1985 ) . |