Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] take a [adj] interest " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Through a peculiar accident , I began to take a passionate interest in music in my ninth year and even started composing immediately . " |
| 2 | He will be aware that I have taken a great interest in Sri Lanka since I have been in the House . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We continued to take a keen interest in protecting and improving the quality of Welsh rivers , lakes and coastal waters . |
| 7 | The only part of the United States in which he seems to take a consistent interest is Brooklyn . |
| 8 | The story of a former pupil who becomes a master at the school ; his affection for the place survives ill-treatment , for after inheriting money , retiring , and marrying the ‘ wardrobe-woman ’ , he continues to take a kindly interest in the boys . |
| 9 | At one time he had taken a mild interest in literature , especially erotic works , but of late it had flagged . |
| 10 | He had taken a personal interest in them ; there , he said , a little pettishly , Edouard would find room for no complaints . |
| 11 | He continued to take a keen interest in anything connected with espionage , and in 1915 published German Spies in England . |
| 12 | 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 . |