go to the bother

I wouldn't have gone to the bother of coming here if she was dead.

Why should nature have gone to the bother of designing three systems?

She wouldn't have let him go to the bother of having a key cut if she hadn't meant to stay.

I'm surprised they listened and went to the bother and expense.

If you weren't, we didn't want you to go to the bother of coming down just to greet us."

So why go to the bother of trying to "guide" (or force) them to other parts of the website's content?

Somebody went to the bother of hidin' him, presumably so his mates don't realise they've got an enemy in their midst.

292 "But you're tellin' me you went to the bother of collectin' them earlier on?

"I'll show you-" No, don't go to the bother.

If God hadn't meant us to do that, as leading theologians keep asking, why did He go to the bother of creating the Sky+ remote?

Reggie had even gone to the bother of dipping each inflated balloon into some kind of ink, so that one half was jet black.

Out of deference to Julia none of the men said anything negative, since she went to the bother of fixing lunch.

Still easier for me to rid myself of my captives than go to the bother of caring for them."

"We're not going to the bother of filling it," says Chris St. John, "because it won't look right years from now."

It is curious that, using various mathematical tests, one can tell if a number is prime without going to the bother of factoring it.

The rapporteur subsequently went to the bother of tightening up the resolution to make it much more focused and that was unanimously approved by our committee.

and not only that, he had gone to the bother of putting it in a rather effective, if undignified, hid- ing place.

He didn't want to be introduced to Julian Garmony, but neither did he want to go to the bother of snubbing him.

That you would go to the bother of answering that advertisement, and coming down here-" "I don't mind being ridiculous."

Of course, that left the question of just why the Navy would go to the bother of sending anyone to Santa Cruz in the first place.

The Irish Star on Sunday however went to the bother of interviewing Roma in the village where these were from, and some confirmed the mayor's and ambassador's claims.

We didn't have many chips, but that was because my mother didn't want to go to the bother of making them, nor did she like the mess that boiling, spluttering fat can make.

That's nice to see in the kind of library releases that studios often push into the stream without going to the bother or expense of providing much in the way of extra features.

Covering all the bases, Simon even went to the bother of organising the supposed photoshoot, and it tickled him that Sintek were still using the image in corporate publicity to this day.