take pains with

Example Sentences

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By the nineteen-thirties, he seems too preoccupied to take pains with his style.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 16, 2015

I shall tell her to take pains with you, but there will be no need to tell her that; she always does take pains with girls who promise to do her credit.

From The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax by Lee, Holme, [pseud.]

Hence it was clearly worth while for Rosamond to take pains with her music and the careful selection of her lace.

From Middlemarch by Eliot, George

"Indeed, they have been so accustomed to take pains with it, that now it is often said that English cooks roast well, if they do nothing else well."

From Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

I shall take pains with it and work it up, patches and all.

From Doctor Luttrell's First Patient by Carey, Rosa Nouchette