Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] a [adj] interest " in BNC.
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| 1 | To that extent , I declare a vested interest . |
| 2 | When I opened a High Interest Business Account ( in addition to the Club 's Current Account ) in September 1990 I was assured that funds to top up the current account would be transferred automatically from the business account whenever the former 's balance fell below £50 . |
| 3 | Ask yourself ‘ What are the pay-offs of being shy , and do I have a vested interest in maintaining them ? ’ |
| 4 | While I was in Germany I took a special interest in the treatment of creative men and women who had lost direction and in some way broken down . |
| 5 | Last year I took a special interest in Arrow , believing it to be the major threat to Transworld . |
| 6 | Alan Anderson , Monsanto Quality Manager , presented the award and made these comments : ‘ I had a personal interest in this one because I 've been working on the application of quality to safety management which is what the Rubber Chemicals Safety Improvement team is all about . |
| 7 | My brother Rollo and I had a consuming interest in cricket and knew the names and performances of all first-class cricketers from about 1946 onwards . |
| 8 | But I had a passionate interest in model trains . |
| 9 | You must understand , however , that I take a great interest in poor Hyde . |
| 10 | is n't necessary for me to do my job , but because I have a personal interest . |
| 11 | But if I was pressed to make a choice , apart from Coldingham Loch , I would have to admit that the Whiteadder River is my favourite Border stream , and I confess that I have a vested interest in Whiteadder . |
| 12 | I have a vested interest in that painting . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I believe , ’ he said , ‘ that I can obtain you a position as reader in a publishing house in which I have a certain interest . |
| 14 | So I have a certain interest , you could say a certain responsibility . " |
| 15 | I have a strong interest in languages , and although now we are trying to teach more languages in school , even in primary schooling , I do n't feel that within er my , I 'm only eighteen at the moment , by the time I 'm twenty five things still wo n't have came far enough along for me to utilize this skill . |
| 16 | I have a modest interest in pictures and antiques and I will now have more time for the sale rooms . |
| 17 | I have a particular interest in South Africa 's erm foreign policy and one of the , from the past , one of the things that South African decision makers have said to me , our dilemma is we do not know what American policy is because if we listen to the Pentagon we get a different voice coming out than if we listen to , let us say , congressional members who are visiting from the committee of foreign affairs . |
| 18 | I should like to refer briefly to something in which my right hon. and learned Friend knows that I have a passionate interest . |
| 19 | Even though the white woman is oppressed herself , she has a vested interest in apartheid . |
| 20 | She showed a great interest in cross-community projects . |
| 21 | The family moved to Bramley in Surrey when she was five and there she developed a passionate interest in wild flowers . |
| 22 | She took a great interest in the Factota scheme , and helped the other two to make out a rough draft of the ‘ handbill ’ that Mr Dare had suggested . |
| 23 | She took a great interest in the kitchen garden too , and calculated with pleasure how many greengages and damsons they would have , how many cherries and pears and strawberries . |
| 24 | About this time a new librarian , Suzy Chaplin , arrived at our school and she took a keen interest in anything the students were doing . |
| 25 | In those countries she visited not only ancient monuments and museums but also factories , prisons , and orphanages , in which she took a keen interest . |
| 26 | She felt a proprietary interest in these two beauties lying there in bed . |
| 27 | She wanted the room to be tidy before they went to sleep as , after only some nine hours ' occupation , she felt a proprietorial interest in ‘ La Felicità ’ and wanted it to look its best always . |
| 28 | All the things that you take a curious interest in when you are lying under a car after a road accident , waiting for the ambulance to arrive and thinking that you 'd far rather be anywhere else but there . |
| 29 | The last thing she wanted was for the local press to find out that she had a personal interest in finding Angy 's killer . |
| 30 | The House of Lords eventually upheld her right , recognising that she had a genuine interest , but providers of information ( particularly the BMA ) and social services staff were extremely uneasy about the apparent danger to confidentiality of client files . |