Example sentences of "have a penchant for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Trump , who has a penchant for naming his many buildings , hotels and casinos after himself , purchased what is now the Trump Shuttle from Eastern 's parent company , Texas Air Corp , in April for $365m . |
| 2 | He does not smoke , but despite his diet , he has a penchant for champagne and his favourite food is said to be lobster . |
| 3 | But after a time , as County Bank went for larger and larger transactions , Mr Wilson , who has a penchant for smaller companies , wanted to get involved in small development capital transactions and smaller management buy-outs . |
| 4 | ‘ We 're all complete Donovan fanatics , ’ admits No Man guitarist Steven Wilson , who has a penchant for dresses in a live context . |
| 5 | ‘ We 're all complete Donovan fanatics , ’ admits No Man guitarist Steven Wilson , who has a penchant for dresses in a live context . |
| 6 | Cripps , at that time President of the Board of Trade , had long had a penchant for machinery-of-government matters and had been active as a minister in the wartime Coalition on reconstruction committees established to consider the issue . |
| 7 | In fact , ever since I 've known him he 's had a penchant for adopting stray dogs . |
| 8 | It does , however , have a penchant for glistening muddy puddles and shiny motor cars . |
| 9 | And why the hell should n't I have a penchant for claret ? thought Helen . |
| 10 | Outside of their own milieu , Arabs seem to have a penchant for choosing the hustler as confidant , or the shyster as business companion . |
| 11 | Also , the UK Customs people seem to have a penchant for opening packages with disks in , and whilst I 've never heard of anything going missing from such a package , they never seem to have grasped the idea that magnets and x-rays do n't mix well with floppy disks . |
| 12 | Thereafter , although a dazzling tour-de-force the performance style becomes too fragmented , in an attempt to define the anarchic energetic presence of his anti-hero , who appears to have a penchant for fish and telephones , while gifted with a ‘ good god smile ’ . |
| 13 | As so many of his contemporaries did , he had a penchant for traditional cottage architecture and was particularly fond of the Kentish styles and materials , having worked for Lord de l'Isle at Penshurst . |
| 14 | If Patsy had a penchant for a pretty frock , Hughie Gallacher had a drink problem . |
| 15 | The count had a penchant for asking various well-known composers to write chamber works for him — for which they were handsomely paid — and then pretending to his friends that he himself was the composer . |
| 16 | She had a penchant for long grey velvet dresses which marked her , in my youthful estimation , as foreign and sophisticated . |
| 17 | Always had a penchant for amateur dramatics . ’ |
| 18 | She had noticed before that the man whom she 'd dubbed Cousin Naylor had a penchant for answering only such queries as he considered he would . |
| 19 | And she becomes rather alarmed to discover the previous occupant of her room bore an uncanny resemblance to her and had a penchant for bungee jumping without a rope . |
| 20 | John and Josephine Bowes had a penchant for collecting the bizarre and unusual — from a beast with two heads to a mechanical mouse . |
| 21 | I recommend you pick reasonably dry conditions for scrambling up these cloughs , unless you have a penchant for floundering through dark , peat-stained raging torrents or swimming up thundering waterfalls . |
| 22 | ‘ It is you , not I , who have a penchant for trinkets . |