Example sentences of "took a fancy " in BNC.
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| 1 | This also meant that at the opposite pole of this evolutionary sequence there had existed a stage which was the exact opposite , a stage when men or women paired freely with whoever they took a fancy to , irrespective of any rules or regulations . |
| 2 | Barton worked a sixteen-hour day , which began with careful , detailed consideration of the trading figures and key ratios for every one of his forty-three major shops and the output of both factories , and continued , usually by helicopter , with a detailed aerial survey of a particular area as the quick way of identifying new sites , interspersed with unheralded descents on the manager of any shop he took a fancy to visit . |
| 3 | ‘ I just took a fancy to it . |
| 4 | A governor 's daughter , travelling to India , found the first-class passengers stuffy and took a fancy to a handsome second-class steward with whom she danced at the fancy dress ball . |
| 5 | This is a privilege for which no legatee could hope , since if the heir took a fancy to property left by legacy , he could keep it on payment of a ( no doubt inflated ) valuation of its worth to the legatee . |
| 6 | Edgar Wallace , a great fan of this troupe , took a fancy to one Girl in particular and would take the whole team to the races in order to meet her . |
| 7 | Anyway , the Tallentires never gave up their music because when Grandfather Tallentire set up house in a little farm called Northside he went to buy an organ but took a fancy to a piano and came back with that instead . |
| 8 | The frost continuing more and more severe , the Thames before London was still planted with booths in formal streets , all sorts of trades and shops furnished and full of commodities , even to a printing press , where the people and ladies took a fancy to have their names printed , and the day and year set down when printed on the Thames . |
| 9 | They gave her dinner and Mitchum took a fancy to her , suddenly forgetting all about his wife back East . |
| 10 | Fruity Fred the bull terrier took a fancy to the leggy lovely and thought he 'd try his luck . |
| 11 | Alex Higgins once took a fancy to my sister Milly and I was n't too pleased . |
| 12 | Mrs Hill took a fancy to Clara . |
| 13 | I think she really took a fancy to you — talked about you all the time when I saw her last summer . |
| 14 | ‘ Judy took a fancy to me and got very jealous of Michele , ’ he recalled . |
| 15 | erm , he said one of the friends he 'd come out with he became a house boy in a house , and the lady took a fancy to him , took him to bed , the husband found him and he was later found |