Example sentences of "take great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prince Charles has been deer stalking since he was a child and takes great pride in a clean kill . |
| 2 | Mr Topolski rightly takes great pride in his association with the Boat Race and regards the event as one of the major features of the sporting calendar . |
| 3 | A bachelor friend of mine takes great pride in culinary art which leaves him never short of admiring girlfriends . |
| 4 | Fashion takes great leap backwards |
| 5 | Afterwards in the bar , Bender takes great delight in ribbing him over it . |
| 6 | The Skeletons , of course , ca n't reach the meat , and the man takes great delight in taking each helping and stuffing it into his own face , wiping juices from his hands onto the Skeletons ' bony faces . |
| 7 | It takes great patience to build up a new technological business . |
| 8 | If one person is prevented getting AIDS by this officer , we 've paid for that person for two years , and I think practically every one of these posts that Queenie takes great offence at is producing a useful end product , and the other point is that Government legislation year after year after year puts more responsibilities on the City Council , the new Environmental Protection Act is a good example . |
| 9 | John Greig , the Rangers ' captain during Robertson 's spell with Third Lanark takes great pleasure in recounting an infamous tale during a New Year game at Cathkin Park . |
| 10 | Ego takes great pleasure in wallowing in self-pity , and defending itself against all charges , whatever the cost to others . |
| 11 | Whilst the three hundred acre farm is run by Hayden Lloyd , his wife , Yvonne , takes great pleasure in looking after the guests . |
| 12 | Somewhat later came the present owner , John Matta , who now takes great pleasure in greeting Citalia guests and welcomes them on arrival with a gift of the wonderful Chianti Classico from his excellent cellars and offers them a typical Tuscan dinner at a reasonable price , which is taken most weeks in the castle 's impressive banqueting hall . |
| 13 | Joanne Swindells of Ashton Branch takes great pleasure in spraying foam over her Manager , Trevor Lorimer . |
| 14 | He takes great trouble over a seemingly endless stream of difficulties . |
| 15 | He normally takes great care to keep us informed of the central part he plays in the worlds of affairs and ideas . |
| 16 | Streep grabs the opportunity to mock such concerns with undisguised relish , providing one of the best comic performances of her career , while Hawn seems curiously ill at ease and takes great care to show us she remains in superb bodily nick . |
| 17 | She also takes great care to establish a sense of place . |
| 18 | She wears a pink suede jacket with a studded fringe which she takes great care to hang . |
| 19 | Though at first , Pip could not bear to touch him , later on he takes great care of him and grows to love him which is shown by their holding hands at the trial of Magwitch and his visits to him as he is awaiting execution . |
| 20 | The Royal Navy takes great care to make sure that job and training details are explained fully to everyone . |
| 21 | Avoiding getting both legs in the same hole takes great concentration ! |
| 22 | It takes great concentration on their part , and for weeks ahead their Teacher Phyl Bailey carefully guides them through rehearsals . |
| 23 | It takes great discipline and hours and hours of practice to perfect just one kata and many beginners soon lose interest . |
| 24 | But it takes great courage for a politician to try and persuade voters of that fact . |
| 25 | It is extremely important that the princess , who takes great interest in Scotland , will be here to grace the occasion . ’ |
| 26 | Standard forms of tender and subcontract are issued by the JCT for use in conjunction with this method , which is far less complicated than full nomination and which , because the main contractor takes greater responsibility , must be considered a useful alternative by surveyors . |
| 27 | ‘ No one knew him , ’ said Raynor , ‘ no one recognised him , and for that the gate-keepers and the sentries must take great blame . |
| 28 | If I were a member of a species , highly evolved and perfectly adapted to a life among craggy rocks , pecking out the odd lamb 's eye , devouring a few mice , picking through a nice gamey carcass occasionally , but mostly just hovering gracefully around on thermals below cliffs , I would take great exception to being described as ‘ just ’ a crow . |
| 29 | Let me tell you , when those dubbin-lickers at Whaddon go on their knees and beg me to bring my United first team squad to ‘ The Tip ’ to put a few quid in their ailing coffers , I shall take great delight in treading on Ken Mentle 's fingers , provided he survives last week 's heart attack , and raising two toes in a defiant ‘ get lost ’ gesture . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm afraid Marianne will take great delight in telling your story , Shae . |