give trouble
Example Sentences
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“He has a great chance to give trouble to the other horses, which I never want.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2016
Then its new-type disk brakes began to give trouble, and it began to drop back.
From Time Magazine Archive
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You’re not to fret, Matt; we mustn’t give trouble a shape before it throws its shadder.”
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
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Moreover, Japan knows no difficulty in matters of religion, and consequently no party based upon religious notions exists to give trouble to Government.
From A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues by Baron Kencho Suyematsu
These are, of course, definitely acquired conditions, some of them temporary and some persistent, that will continue to give trouble so long as the patient continues to produce irritation of them.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh