Example sentences of "[pers pn] have taken 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | At one time he had taken a mild interest in literature , especially erotic works , but of late it had flagged . |
| 6 | He had taken a personal interest in them ; there , he said , a little pettishly , Edouard would find room for no complaints . |
| 7 | 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 . |