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

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

"Indeed, they have been so accustomed to take pains with it, that now it is often said that English cooks roast well, if they do nothing else well."

From Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

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

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