Sentence examples for having bothered from inspiring English sources

But they often walk away almost sorry for having bothered him.

There is no excuse for not having bothered to read even one.

Collins was almost willing to forgive Gosse for not knowing whether "the Arcadia of Sidney and the Oceana of Harrington are in prose or verse," and even for not having bothered to look them up, "but that he should, under the impression that they are poems, have had the effrontery to sit in judgement on them, might well... make us ashamed of our species".

Wildly overdressed – "squidged into a white Ralph Lauren thing with a little bit of muffin top, covered in "I love New York" badges, with a huge American flag wrapped around a silly hat" – and not having bothered to prepare a speech, they arrived to find a deeply earnest audience of politicians in dark suits.

"President Obama is paying a price for never having bothered to tell the public the truth about the nature of the downturn.

She needn't have bothered.

They should not have bothered.

It needn't have bothered.

I need not have bothered.

They need hardly have bothered.

Sometimes both have bothered him.