Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] pride [pn reflx] on " in BNC.

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1 I used to pride myself on my self-control . ’
2 You may pride yourself on being a generous listener who is very interested in others , and use this pride to excuse you from using control tactics .
3 He had worked in Belfast in the late 1940s , and compared the Labour scene in Derry unfavourably with that of the larger city : ‘ We may pride ourselves on being a city but politically we are still a small Ulster town . ’
4 This is scarcely surprising , since we may pride ourselves on the fact that freedom of speech has existed in this country perhaps as long as , if not longer than , it has existed in any other country in the world .
5 This is scarcely surprising , since we may pride ourselves on the fact that freedom of speech has existed in this country perhaps as long as , if not longer than , it has existed in any other country in the world .
6 This is scarcely surprising , since we may pride ourselves on the fact that freedom of speech has existed in this country perhaps as long as , if not longer than , it has existed in any other country in the world .
7 By the time CAMRA celebrated its first ten years it could pride itself on a large national membership and a series of hardhitting reports that had exposed the market domination of the big brewers and the shoddy beers they produced .
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