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They went to great pains to say the decision was a personal one.

You went to great pains to cover your tracks, but people always talk.

The film goes to great pains to avoid addressing such questions.

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.

The image was one he went to great pains to cultivate.

It is a belief he has gone to great pains to document.

"Now, Maria has gone to great pains to cook everything you love."

It calls for airlines to go to greater pains to return victims' personal effects to their families.

We must go to great pains to root it out."

However, composers often go to great pains to keep to true intervals.

It indicated him as a man who had gone to great pains to improve his grammar.

He'd gone to great pains, down the years, to cultivate his anonymity.

He picks a few campaign themes and goes to great pains to keep his candidates on message.

Her center, with its diverse staff, has gone to great pains to attract many immigrant groups.

Updike has no reason to place himself in a position they went to great pains to escape.

The organizers also go to great pains to avoid conflicts of interest among the judges.

Yet the man behind this went to great pains to smash in their faces almost beyond recognition.

With Wendy they went to great pains to make it look like an accident."

As he traveled, Friedrich had gone to great pains to avoid troops.

Universal executives say they have gone to great pains to be sensitive to the victims' families.

"Because the sufferer will go to great pains to conceal them," she said.

Governor Pataki's staff has gone to great pains to paint their man as a regular guy.

"But we also want to go to great pains, and if possible avoid the very sobering thought of shooting down an aircraft."

We went to great pains to offer our fans as much diversity as possible within the new campaign.

He usually went to great lengths to show me his body.

She has gone to great lengths to get some of you here.

A central system was just what they had gone to great lengths to get away from.

They have gone to great lengths to do just that.

But sometimes, people will go to great lengths to avoid service.

Still, the town has gone to great lengths to make the team feel welcome.

People go to great lengths to try to kill him.

Somebody wants something big and is going to great lengths to get it.

Other doctors and parents may be going to greater lengths.

Why else go to great lengths to make it secret.

In some species, parents go to great lengths to protect their young.

"I'm going to great lengths trying not to make it a story."

"They went to great lengths to see if there was any movement of money," he said.

People in the building said he had gone to great lengths to keep his family out of sight.

Instead, they went to great lengths to avoid being identified.

"We go to great lengths to balance it out every hour."

And they're going to great lengths to keep it hidden.

Companies go to great lengths to build relationships with university officials.

Often, people will go to great lengths to keep their condition secret.

He goes to great lengths to protect his son's secret.

He has gone to great lengths to find the right kind of studio production.

I go to great lengths never to have to ask him to look for something in my closet.

The men who dressed as women in the stories went to great lengths to make themselves look the part.

"I even went to great lengths to find a simple oven without a black glass door."

After all, we go to great lengths to educate these kids.