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go to/take great pains
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go to/take great pains to do something

to try very hard to do something. I went to great pains to get this record for you.

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Think what those stories say to the children: you are so important to us that we were willing to go to great pains to bring you into our lives. Let's hear it for the child by O'Connell, Mary / U.S. Catholic More results

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go to any lengths
go to bat for
go to bed with
Go to blazes
go to earth
go to great lengths
go to great lengths to

go to great pains
go to ground
go to head
go to hell
go to hell in a handbasket/handcart
go to pieces
go to pot
go to rack/wrack and ruin

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