Example sentences of "[pers pn] was at pain " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was at pains to show how and why . |
| 2 | And , unlike most story-tellers with an involvement , I was at pains to minimise my own part ; the last thing I did was boast . |
| 3 | She was at pains to tell me — several times — that her male friends were divided into two groups . |
| 4 | At the same time , she was at pains to attempt a type series from the site , an idea started hopefully by Bushe-Fox at Wroxeter . |
| 5 | In the article she was at pains to point out why they had to stay out of England until the following April , ‘ not because of tax ’ , she insisted , ‘ but in case either of us drops dead , which would mean the company having to be broken up ’ . |
| 6 | ALTHOUGH Mr David Mellor 's new role as Secretary for National Heritage has been caricatured as Minister of Fun or Minister for Free Tickets , he was at pains yesterday to emphasise more serious aspects of his task ahead . |
| 7 | However , here he was at pains to point out that ‘ although this work was intended for an appendix to the Gardeners Dictionary , yet it may be reckoned a complete performance in itself independent to that ’ . |
| 8 | He was at pains to point out that he had lived in Ambleside since 1800 and therefore knew the region intimately . |
| 9 | Again and again he was at pains to demonstrate to Theo that he did n't live idly on his brother 's money . |
| 10 | First he was at pains to deny opium 's power to intoxicate , asserting that the drug produced a static , ‘ chronic pleasure ’ lasting perhaps ten hours . |
| 11 | And two days later , in a public statement , he was at pains to make clear that he does not believe in ‘ White majority-rule ’ any more than black . |
| 12 | Mr the headmaster has recently applied to Paul 's present local authority London Borough of Merton for a classroom assistant for Paul for thirty hours per week he does not know whether he will get that or a lesser number of hours or none at all , he was repeatedly , in my view quite rightly , extremely reluctant to express any view about what the outcome of his application maybe , but , rather force time is to which we have to guess , his guess was that ten hours might be afforded but he was at pains to emphasize that that was pure guess work . |
| 13 | He was at pains to explain why his election promises to lower middle-class taxes had actually turned 180 degrees . |