Example sentences of "took great care " in BNC.
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| 1 | After he recovered , he took great care of his health , finding every ray of sunshine to sit in and when it rained , still resolutely taking the air , under the porch . |
| 2 | He took great care not to touch her or allow his grubby clothes to come into contact with her beautiful skirt and creamy-white blouse . |
| 3 | The spokesman from Rough Trade took great care before releasing the following statement : ‘ The Smiths stand 100% behind the lyrics to all their songs . |
| 4 | She showed severe potential spasticity , so the physiotherapists took great care to prevent her from being twisted into deformity . |
| 5 | An early observer was amused to notice that certain shore-nesting birds took great care about the way they performed their imitation death throes : ‘ The end comes slowly , surely , a miserable flurry and scraping , the dying stilt , however , even in articulo mortis , contriving to avoid inconvenient stones , upon which decently to expire . ’ |
| 6 | They took great care and were concentrating on a small area , trying hard not to tread on the bones . |
| 7 | He took great care to have his children brought up as members of his Church , though eventually all three who survived went over to that of their mother . |
| 8 | We took great care to avoid these . |
| 9 | Since the rifle was the infantryman 's main weapon for both defence and attack , he took great care of it . |
| 10 | Some multicentre studies have been published in aggregate and separately , and we took great care to avoid including the same results more than once . |
| 11 | Although not an agricultural innovator , he was an astute farmer and businessman : he took great care in selecting seed and breeding stock ; he knew the best markets in the region for a wide variety of products ; and he endeavoured never to miss an opportunity for profit . |
| 12 | Doctor Jekyll loved his books and always took great care of them . |
| 13 | He has a large number of good qualities and very few bad ones ; George is very kind and caring and took great care over Lennie . |
| 14 | The restaurant was decked with more stars and stripes than you could count , and the staff took great care to dress up for the occasion . |