take pains with

By the nineteen-thirties, he seems too preoccupied to take pains with his style.

The beauty editor Andrea Pomerantz Lustig believes that the best way to look like a million bucks when your outfit costs less than your lunch is to take pains with your hair, makeup and skin care, using tips she has compiled over a lifetime.

Where the idea prevails either that we are possessed of considerable native goodness, or that we have only to take pains with ourselves to get it, there is no welcome for the truth that “by grace are ye saved.”

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.

Leastways he didn't take pains with us.