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Meanings of take pains in English

Try very hard to do something.

Synonyms
Examples for "be at pains"
Examples for "be at pains"
1
Experience alone, that supreme educator of peoples, will be at pains to show us our mistake.
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
2
Indeed, she seemed to be at pains to show him her natural-inother words, her most objectionable side.
Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green
3
She was evidently much worried about her fiancé, and seemed to be at pains to maintain her self-command.
White fire
4
Here 's an exploit, if we but carry it through, which even antiquity will be at pains to match!
Clementina
5
As Theresa May has been at pains to stress: Allardyce means Allardyce.
The Guardian
Usage of take pains in English
1
They do not even take pains to conceal their pursuit of me.
File No. 113
2
We should take pains to be polite to those whom we love.
More Pages from a Journal
3
One salesman when collecting will take pains to get certain bills balanced.
A Man of Samples. Something about the men he met "On the Road"
4
Ogilvy will have to take pains to avoid our watchman, she suggested.
The Valley of the Giants
5
As for Belle, she did not take pains to hide her disgust.
Without a Home
6
I believe, though, that if people take pains they can find them.
Catharine Furze
7
I shall take pains with it and work it up, patches and all.
Doctor Luttrell's First Patient
8
If I take pains and succeed, they only laugh at me.
The Crofton Boys
9
I do not see that, if you take pains with yourself.
A Reputed Changeling; Or, Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago
10
But I need not take pains to prove what no man will deny.
Letters to Sir William Windham and Mr. Pope
11
She must take pains to grow, or she will not grow.
Gala-Days
12
They should, therefore, take pains to seek every possible opportunity of cultivating poise.
Poise: How to Attain It
13
Dukat will take pains to ensure that no more attempts can be carried out.
Star trek: terok nor: dawn of the eagles
14
She did not take pains to look beneath the summer-house on the water side.
Ruth Fielding Down East; Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point
15
We take pains and weary to faultlessly clothe the body.
Leaves of Life, for Daily Inspiration
16
The steamboat men will take pains to make them grow.
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 2: 1843-1858
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