Example sentences of "took great " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sat down on the floor and took great heaving breaths as though she had come up a hill with a burden beyond her strength . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | During his visit he was briefed on the work of the Association by the Financial Secratary Sam Churchman and Mrs Wyatt , and took great interest in the Welfare work that we do . |
| 4 | When the Labour Cabinet , in August 1931 , failed to agree on an economy programme , Ramsay MacDonald , in his own words , ‘ strove hard and took great risks in being responsible for the delay , to keep the Government in , because no National Government of any kind is the sort of thing that I should support of my own free choice . ' |
| 5 | I love being in France and I recently bought an old barn there and took great pleasure in rebuilding it and making a garden . |
| 6 | That was something he took great pride in . |
| 7 | Despite his flair and populism , he was a cautious man who took great comfort from the fact that his son had not become a footballer but was securely settled in the middle class as a solicitor . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | That should go to the rescue workers who took great risks to bring out survivors , the skill of the medical teams and the love expressed by those who cared for the injured and bereaved . |
| 10 | The Irishman said he had had ‘ a very fair hearing ’ from the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association 's one-man disciplinary tribunal , Gavin Lightman QC , who ‘ took great account of the mitigating circumstances ’ . |
| 11 | At the same time , he took great trouble over the team 's welfare , even to the extent of helping them when they signed their contracts . |
| 12 | Well , the Dean and I took great joy in disabusing that person of that mistaken view . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | The Milanese took great pains over its reconstruction in order to properly reinstate the great courtyard that formed the heart of Il Filarete 's dream . |
| 17 | Modigliani took great trouble to find a suitable nurse for the baby and after some time found a compatriot , a woman from Calabria . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 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 | Peter Jacobsen took great delight in tackling him , but we had to wait while it was going on . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Macmillan took great pains to husband his energies . |
| 24 | Callaghan took great pains inside the Cabinet to be seen to let the notion of an alternative strategy have a fair run . |
| 25 | A proven judge of footballing talent , Chapman took great interest in the third team . |
| 26 | I took great pleasure in travelling across the straits to Victoria to spend most of an afternoon with Emily at the old family house at 215 St Andrew Street . |
| 27 | Pennethorne produced detailed drawings and an estimate , but Hall ‘ took great objections to them ’ as he thought that many rooms and passages were badly lit . |
| 28 | They seemed to work extremely quickly using graining combs , brushes , even feathers to produce finishes in which they took great pride . |
| 29 | Next morning the stage manager took great pleasure in informing them they had been to a women-only club . |
| 30 | When the time came to close the office , he took great pleasure in posting us all as far away from our homes as he possibly could . |