Example sentences of "[pron] was interested in [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I I was interested in you saying about the doom and gloom which is |
| 2 | I was interested in you talking there about you know , that one , that particular case whereby one bloke was threatened with dismissal and very rapidly the way you describe it , the men came back with a threat of strike action . |
| 3 | ‘ And yet , ’ he said after a moment , in a voice that was almost a whisper , ‘ and yet , last night , when you thought I was interested in you … ’ |
| 4 | Er , Professor did say final words of aspiration , and I sha n't talk on aspirations , I was interested in it , and although I talked the empirical linguis linguisism . |
| 5 | It was the first indication Newman had that she was interested in him . |
| 6 | She often found herself making excuses to avoid him though in some ways she was interested in him , even attracted to him . |
| 7 | ‘ It was my husband who was interested in him , ’ she said a little sadly . |
| 8 | There 's a metallist girl who was interested in it , she wanted me to be her partner mm , went along once or twice but |
| 9 | In 1781 the French astronomer Charles Messier drew up a catalogue of them , containing over a hundred entries , not because he was interested in them ( quite the contrary ! ) but because he was a comet-hunter , and he was persistently misled by fuzzy objects which looked like comets but which were not . |
| 10 | When his initial interest waned , the teacher paid no more attention to him : ‘ Then I realized what he was interested in me for and we ended up just walking past each other , completely ignoring each other . ’ |
| 11 | He was called Paolo , and he was a handsome , elegant , simpatico boy whom I often saw and talked to during the school holidays , without ever suspecting that he was interested in me personally . |
| 12 | He held my gaze for just a fraction longer than you 'd expect , and I was certain then that underneath his professional front he was interested in me . |
| 13 | He was interested in her and she felt on top of the world … |
| 14 | She had dismissed as rubbish Nina 's allegations that the men thought he was interested in her , but she had to admit he was good company , and for the next half-hour he entertained her with stories of his work in Australia , of the people he 'd met and of his excursions into the bush and to the Great Barrier Reef . |
| 15 | ‘ Still , he was interested in you . |
| 16 | When I painted it was for myself , I could afford the luxury of spending two years on a painting ; I did n't have to worry about whether anyone was interested in it or not or whether I would exhibit it in a commercial gallery or whether it would be sold . |