Example sentences of "[noun] take [art] [adj] pride " in BNC.

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1 Beige popsters take a vicarious pride in the slow baptism of fire that their chosen genre and its protagonists underwent .
2 Obviously people in the trade take a great pride in their ability to understand their customers and to predict their reactions .
3 A property-owning democracy , it was argued , also leads to the improvement of the housing stock since people take a greater pride in homes they own .
4 The royals take an obscure pride in their penny-pinching , details of which are leaked to the press from time to time so as to suggest that they are , in fact , just like us .
5 The vast majority of farmers and landowners take an inordinate pride in the countryside and will show off their land to the occasional interested and respectful visitor .
6 I think the students take a real pride in what they 're doing , in our place .
7 Citalia take a special pride in bringing you the best and for 1992 offers the four most popular holiday centres — Rome , Venice , Florence and Verona .
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