The words are easy, so why do we have such trouble saying them?
They were hard words and he had trouble saying them.
She was beautiful and he had trouble saying the words.
No trouble, he said; we do it with a general.
"I have no trouble saying that," he said at the time.
It can, after all, come to seem as though there were something wrong with a subject whose practitioners have trouble saying what they are doing.
For the life of him, he had trouble saying.
If it's not too much trouble say Kaddish for me.
"And our trouble with you, will not start," Mary said.
Already Ael was finding herself having trouble saying the name.