11.   He takes little interest in me apart from how I look and what my exam results are like.

12.   He took an interest in counterinsurgency.

13.   I have spoken very often to governmental officials, but they take no interest in this town.

14.   I was a teenager when I first took a serious interest in films.

15.   I will be for ever indebted to people in those roles who encouraged me and who have taken an interest in my children.

16.   In the real world, political work goes on whether or not the public takes an interest.

17.   Jacky first took an interest in golf when he was about six years old.

18.   Lately he had taken an interest in a younger woman who had borne an illegitimate child and been abandoned by her lover.

19.   Louise took no interest in her fortune.

20.   More and more people are taking an interest in vegetarian cookery.