Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] took a [adj] " 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 latter ( in which I took a great personal interest ) required the installation of a special engine to pump up the Secondary Modern sewage into a tank , at the Grammar School level , from which it could then flow gently eastwards towards the Oxford Road . |
| 4 | Wexford ignored him and followed the widow to the sideboard from a drawer of which she took a long cream-coloured book . |
| 5 | In those countries she visited not only ancient monuments and museums but also factories , prisons , and orphanages , in which she took a keen interest . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Mind you yours took a long time , you know that bump Tom had going to his |
| 9 | 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 . |