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Try very hard to do something.
take pains
1
Experience alone, that supreme educator of peoples, will
be
at
pains
to show us our mistake.
2
Indeed, she seemed to
be
at
pains
to show him her natural-inother words, her most objectionable side.
3
She was evidently much worried about her fiancé, and seemed to
be
at
pains
to maintain her self-command.
4
Here 's an exploit, if we but carry it through, which even antiquity will
be
at
pains
to match!
5
I am not at all pleased with his plans, nor will I
be
at
pains
to conceal my displeasure.
6
Unless under pressing necessity, I myself will not
be
at
pains
to read what I can with difficulty understand.
7
Until five of the clock, I suggest that you
be
at
pains
to save whatever barrels may still be whole.
8
Possibly she looks upon me as the author of her mother's disgrace; I shall never
be
at
pains
to undeceive her.
9
Such a nature could not long maintain its disguise, and probably would not
be
at
pains
to do so after marriage.
10
He knew the cloud he clasped for Clotilde enough to
be
at
pains
to shun a possible prospect of his execrating it.
11
I will
be
at
pains
to put my business in such train as will enable me to visit you for a week or two.
12
As Theresa May has
been
at
pains
to stress: Allardyce means Allardyce.
13
But some one
was
at
pains
to find out the real reason.
14
In his testimony at Leveson, Murdoch
was
at
pains
to protect Brooks.
15
Yet the CDU
was
at
pains
to present the result as a success.
16
The hospital authorities, Tom
is
at
pains
to point out, always meant well.