take pains with

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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

Elaborate, e-lab′or-āt, v.t. to labour on: to produce with labour: to take pains with: to improve by successive operations.—adj. wrought with labour: done with fullness and exactness: highly finished.—adv.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

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

Few people had ever thought it necessary to take pains with John Saxton, and he greatly enjoyed the novelty of this intercourse with a man of his own age who was not a bore.

From The Main Chance by Nicholson, Meredith

He was simply a young man, and I would not value any young man who did not take pains with his personal appearance, even at the risk of being thought proud.

From From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Stables, Gordon