Sentence examples for the trouble to ask from inspiring English sources

Incidentally, has anyone taken the trouble to ask them?

If only Clare Short had taken the trouble to ask hers.

The truth is that the Taxpayers Alliance is yet another lobbying organisation that represents us without taking the trouble to ask for our consent.

He would ask Madiba, 'what would you like to be prepared for supper?' Very few other heads of state went to the trouble to ask.

"The families who are supposed to be closest to these elderly people don't know where they are and, in many cases, have not even taken the trouble to ask the police to search for them," read the editorial.

Even after Mr. Santorum won other states, he still had doubts, he said, but now that Mr. Santorum had taken the trouble to come up here and ask for his vote, he would give it to him.

The reality is that last Wednesday's brief "notification of inadequate system margin" (NISM) had nothing to do with wind power, as any of the writers quoted above could have discovered had they taken the trouble to call the National Grid and ask.

The charity said it was particularly troubled by the decision to ask all participants – whether NGOs, UN agencies or states – to sign up to such commitments as it would, in effect, minimise the responsibility of governments.

We have enough trouble convincing the kids not to ask to play Mario Kart Wii all day let alone equate reading with dragging a pointer across a laptop screen.

The last thing you want to do is go to all the trouble of asking questions to your customers and having the public misinterpret what you're asking.

Every scene – if you go to the trouble of asking your crew to build a set and shoot a scene, it damn well ought to be important.