Example sentences of "took great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After retirement he became a respected commentator , chairman of selectors and eventually president of Yorkshire ( 1981-4 ) until , saddened by the internal strife , he resigned from an office in which he took great pride . |
| 2 | That was something he took great pride in . |
| 3 | ‘ They tried everything to unnerve him but he remained so cool , ’ said Mr Kinnear , who took great pride in the fact that Wimbledon , now safe from relegation , are the first side to score three times at Anfield this season . |
| 4 | It had been unnecessary , of course , for her to mention that the silver was one of my father 's main responsibilities and one he took great pride in . |
| 5 | Indeed , the Home Secretary , Mr Leon Brittan , took great pride in the fact that , unlike any of its predecessors , the Conservative Government had provided for the first time a clear and comprehensive statutory framework for the interception of communications . |
| 6 | They seemed to work extremely quickly using graining combs , brushes , even feathers to produce finishes in which they took great pride . |
| 7 | Gordon Sloan , the Interim Reporter , took great exception to their presence . |
| 8 | His ADC took great exception , but then Joe was able to say " all Aides des Camps — piss off ! " . |
| 9 | The Prince felt he was in the company of someone very special , took great delight in time spent talking to him , and was inspired by all that he heard . |
| 10 | Peter Jacobsen took great delight in tackling him , but we had to wait while it was going on . |
| 11 | When I regressed her , Eileen did in fact describe to me a happy , boisterous childhood with her sister and her six brothers — all of whom took great delight in spoiling their baby sister . |
| 12 | She took great delight in physical freedom , was one of the first women to cycle , loved to row , and climbed the Matterhorn twice . |
| 13 | In a brief account of her life Collier describes her education at her parents ' hands : ‘ I was taught to read when very Young , and took great delight in it ; but my Mother dying , I lost my Education , Never being put to School . ’ |
| 14 | … One of the topics came up in the following week 's Science lesson … the girls took great delight in showing the boys how to perform the tasks ! … the improvement in their confidence was most marked . ’ |
| 15 | Some of them took great satisfaction in provocative statements of their position : there is no such thing as law , they said , or law is only the prediction of what the courts will do or only a matter of what the judge ate for breakfast . |
| 16 | Even so , it took great nerve and daring to ride that wind for such a distance and it is a fitting tribute to the bravery of the balloon pioneers , yet it will be seen that those men and women who followed Sadler into the skies display , in their own way , no less daring than he . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The spokesman from Rough Trade took great care before releasing the following statement : ‘ The Smiths stand 100% behind the lyrics to all their songs . |
| 20 | She showed severe potential spasticity , so the physiotherapists took great care to prevent her from being twisted into deformity . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | They took great care and were concentrating on a small area , trying hard not to tread on the bones . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We took great care to avoid these . |
| 25 | Since the rifle was the infantryman 's main weapon for both defence and attack , he took great care of it . |
| 26 | Some multicentre studies have been published in aggregate and separately , and we took great care to avoid including the same results more than once . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Doctor Jekyll loved his books and always took great care of them . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |