taken the trouble

The unseemly appearance of this dirty garment was heightened by the circumstance that he had not taken the trouble to adjust it properly.

You might have taken the trouble to tell us that the bridge was down!

Our clothes wet with sweat, but our hearts hot days like this, like, taken the trouble to help every needy person.

A proof of her weakness lay in the very utterance of what calm strength would not have taken the trouble to formulate.

You might have taken the trouble to tell me the meeting was put off.

These institutions usually have press officers who are eager to help a reporter who has taken the trouble of contacting them.

If he'd taken the trouble to be introduced, this wouldn't have happened.

It's as if you had taken the trouble to pick out the people in the world that I have least in common with.

Accept compliments gracefully. If somebody has taken the trouble to compliment you, the least you can do is appreciate it.

No, you have never taken the trouble to think at all.

However, I personally have never taken the trouble to learn enough of jEdit's API to write my own plugins (Java is not my forte anyway).

Some employees have never taken the trouble to find out the actual tasks they will be required to do.

Earth, have taken the trouble to ring another enclosurerotation.

the wonder was rather that they had ever guessed my pitiful illusion , and taken the trouble to come back.

You need not have taken the trouble to do it for me.

Since you have all taken the trouble to come here, wouldn't it be well to begin by understanding what we mean by seriousness?

Chinese firms tended to learn more from multinationals that had taken the trouble to build their own large sales forces in China, he says.