Example sentences of "[pron] have take a [adj] interest " in BNC.

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1 He will be aware that I have taken a great interest in Sri Lanka since I have been in the House .
2 PC Week , which has taken a new interest in Unix since the Novell announcement and will reportedly even grace us with its presence at Uniforum , attacked Microsoft 's NT last week in a pair of front-page stories headlined ‘ NetWare Casts Shadow Over NT . ’
3 Our Chairman , Richard Newcombe , who has taken a particular interest in the museum , then spoke , welcoming the guests and thanking them for their support .
4 As many of you will have noticed from your Q.T. day programme Beryl will not be teaching this year ; for some time she has taken a great interest in the Back Pain Association and has now become involved particularly at weekends in special classes for back-pain sufferers .
5 Approximately 100 people then took part in the business meeting when our President , Lady Braithwaite , opened the proceedings with many congratulations to the Society on the previous eventful year in which she had taken a deep interest .
6 The men in boots were inspectors who had taken an unusual interest in our barge .
7 You very humbly describe yourself as an absent Pro-Chancellor , but you have taken a considerable interest in this university over the years , and we 've been grateful for it .
8 At one time he had taken a mild interest in literature , especially erotic works , but of late it had flagged .
9 He had taken a personal interest in them ; there , he said , a little pettishly , Edouard would find room for no complaints .
10 Richard Clutterbuck is a lecturer in Law in our School of Social Sciences at the University , and he 's taken a particular interest into legal aspects of violence in society .
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