Example sentences of "[pers pn] have a soft [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason why I have a soft spot for this notebook , he wrote . |
| 2 | Although I have a soft spot for him after his super-game Hennessy win , he does not appeal greatly as 7-2 favourite . |
| 3 | When I 'm working in the theatre , I tend to steer clear of TV dramas , though I have a soft spot for P D James and Ruth Rendell thrillers . |
| 4 | I have a soft spot for writers in the Weberian tradition or at the intersection of that tradition with Marxism and have learned a lot from them . |
| 5 | She had a soft spot for Benedict , and his mother had been her friend . |
| 6 | They had a soft spot for its mid- morning scene of desolation , the familiar down-and-outs warming themselves at their bonfires of pallets on the lorry park , street cleaners ineffectually sweeping piles of rotten fruit and a pecking order of scavengers collecting their portion of the spoils . |
| 7 | He has a soft spot for the glamour of new technology . |
| 8 | He had a soft spot for Roy , the same as he did for Benny . |
| 9 | ‘ I suppose father has left her something ; he had a soft spot for Anna , he said she looked like mother . ’ |