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
One does not trouble one's self about the furniture of earthly life any more than one would take pains with the beautification of a room in which one happens to be lodged for a night.
From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin
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
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
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
