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

Both precautions show Clancy’s determination to take pains with the game he is pursuing, and not again give it a chance to get away.

From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Reid, Mayne

This calls for the ability to concentrate the mind upon a multitude of small details, and take pains with little, uninteresting things.

From Shop Management by Taylor, Frederick Winslow

If we take pains with our drains and water supply, so that human excrement does not get into it, and if we destroy the filth-carrying housefly, we do not have epidemics of typhoid.

From The Book of Life by Sinclair, Upton

But he was always willing to work, and to take pains with his work, no matter how humble it might be. 

From Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance by Smiles, Samuel