Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] taken [adj] care " in BNC.

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1 Since my episode with Moustaine during the first week of training , I had taken due care with my backside ; but others had n't got the point .
2 Unless you 've taken good care of your windows over the years , they are probably looking a little peaky — and may be downright poorly .
3 Whenever you 've seen Rob in my office you 've taken good care to get him out of my clutches very smartly , on the flimsiest of pretexts .
4 She was never to equal her first novel , That Lass o' Lowrie 's ( 1877 ) , a robust account of a Lancashire mining community in which she had taken great care with background and dialect , though Through One Administration ( 1883 ) , a study of a failed marriage against a turbulent background of Washington political life , was noteworthy , and the much shorter The Making of a Marchioness ( 1901 ) is a indictment of Edwardian society .
5 Poise was going to be the order of the day — poise and sophistication ; she had taken great care to look the part , now all she had to do was feel that way too .
6 We have taken great care to make sure that the foods recommended on the diet are all widely available , little influenced by seasonal variations .
7 Furthermore , we have taken great care during twinning visits to make sure the teams are fully representative .
8 But the women who have n't bothered with make-up — unless they 've taken superlative care of their complexions — have now got skin that shows the ravages of time .
9 As Coleman had been at pains to point this out before taking on the DEA assignment , he could hardly disagree , but the risk had seemed acceptable at the time and he had taken particular care to underline his academic credentials whenever he met Hurley 's people .
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