"pain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- You went to great pains to cover your tracks, but people always talk.
- They've gone to great pains to conceal something from us.
- We go to great pains to keep ourselves and our operations from public knowledge.
- They went to great pains to say the decision was a personal one.
- Why do you go to such pains to preserve your original turn of speech?
- "But why have you gone to such pains to keep it secret?"
- To think they would go to such pains ¡X to give her props like those!
- Why, not even the Queen went to such pains over her appearance!
- The film goes to great pains to avoid addressing such questions.
- Not when someone was going to such pains to set plans in motion.
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