"If you'd called me, I'd have told you not to bother coming here."

Your mom told me to not bother coming back if something happened to you.

Why did we bother coming, then, if you don't believe it can be done?

"Why couldn't you have thought of all that before we bothered coming this far?"

If it weren't for more urgent matters, I'd not bother coming all this way.

What I'd like to understand is why you bothered coming down here in the first place?

Mother didn't bother coming in to check that Wendy responded.

The team's president told him not to bother coming back to practice, Bierhoff said.

Until you can give me an answer, don't bother coming back.

Things hadn't been going well and Dad told her not to bother coming back if she left.