Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] take a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There I was to have a long conversation with young Middleton , to whom I took a great shine , and was very impressed with him as a person and indeed his crew . |
| 2 | As Lauda remarked : ‘ He was someone I took a great liking to , the craziest devil I ever came across in F1 . ’ |
| 3 | The hon. Gentleman referred to another issue in which I take a good deal of interest — women and work . |
| 4 | In those countries she visited not only ancient monuments and museums but also factories , prisons , and orphanages , in which she took a keen interest . |
| 5 | One statement to which we take a major issue is that Dista Products failed to inform the Committee on Safety of Medicines about the way the drug behaved in the body of certain very elderly patients and that thus information was withheld from doctors for a period of 14 months from June 1981 . |
| 6 | Now , our special report in which we take a closer look at a topical issue . |
| 7 | Now our special report in which we take a closer look at an issue in the news . |
| 8 | Each member of the group , based in Woodbridge , has an area in which they take a special interest . |
| 9 | The heavy hand of a resident father would probably not have stopped him being suspended from school three times , once for smoking , once for swearing and once for self-confessed vandalism ( breaking a rival basketball team 's scoreboard because they played dirty , for which he took a part-time job to pay for the damage ) . |
| 10 | Among them are a portrait of the beauteous Dorelia with whom she took a passionate walking trip across France and who later lived in a ménage à trois with her brother and his wife . |
| 11 | Mind you yours took a long time , you know that bump Tom had going to his |
| 12 | John Parker , who himself took a nasty knock on the head while batting in a famous Press match at Harrogate in 1977 , stiffens his reader on page 9 by having the bumptious captain of Surrey keel over ‘ like a battleship hit by a torpedo ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ Suffolk folk will tell you it takes a long time to get to know them , and I soon found out it 's true . |
| 14 | We noted that this switch entailed a move towards a more regressive system of taxation , i.e. one which takes a smaller proportion of higher incomes . |
| 15 | Paula might look as if butter would n't melt in her mouth but when her mind was made up to something it took a stronger woman than Grace to talk her out of it . |
| 16 | ‘ We used to have a shop in this block which sold leads , collars , blankets , and so on , to anybody who took a rescued dog from us for rehoming . |
| 17 | Anyone who took a clean catch ‘ made no mistake ’ . |