Sentence examples for took trouble from inspiring English sources

They were fond of wine and took trouble over its manufacture.

Obedient, Calvinist Sylvia, instructed to simulate oral sex, took trouble to learn her lines and repeated the scene until it was perfect.

He took trouble to seek out back-benchers to make sure that any promise he had made to the floor of the House was implemented.

Rae had his problems with interfering governors and unsatisfactory or disaffected teachers (one calls the boys "bastards", another sounds off about Saturday-morning school), and he took trouble to prevent an alliance between them.

Peter Greenaway, in The Draughtsman's Contract, took trouble to provide authentic 17th-century costumes and architecture, yet the draughtsman's drawings – central to the plot – are embarrassingly late 20th-century in style.

Faced with Stalin's terror, Louis Fischer, a journalist closely associated with Moscow, denounced his past loyalties - but he took trouble to do so only when this gesture could no longer harm the Spanish republic.

"You take trouble," he said.

I could tell you'd take trouble with yourself".

Instead, they take trouble to exercise their votes, and are ready to tackle company bosses direct.

They all take trouble with us and it's just so friendly.

"That is why they have taken trouble always to keep monitoring the progress of Amref's work," she said.