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
The schoolmaster's wife liked handsome children.—"What a genius will Master Ferdinand Fitzroy be, if you take pains with him!" said she, to her husband.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 340, Supplementary Number (1828) by Various
This induced her to take pains with her, and to let her be a participator in all the most useful branches of a nursery education.
From The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl by Cobbold, Richard
To pole on a composition, to take pains with it.
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Hall, Benjamin Homer
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
