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
Consequently, when the spring was well advanced, Paddy invested in her first smart “tailor-made,” a very pretty hat, and began to take pains with her hair.
From Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing by Page, Gertrude
I think, if you take pains with your table, it will surpass that which the ladies at the lodge have made, and theirs is reckoned the most beautiful in the country.
From The Eskdale Herd-boy A Scottish Tale for the Instruction and Amusement of Young People by Blackford, Mrs. (Martha)
It was a great encouragement to Beth to find that Aunt Grace Mary was obliged to take pains with her writing.
From The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius by Grand, Sarah
The thistle has still many more, As visible too in our eyes, But who will take pains with a weed, That nobody ever can prize?
From Poems by Betham, Matilda
