fond

Preposition: of

• joke: Fond of practical jokes and revenge, the doctors, nurses and soldiers often find ways of making wartime life bearable.
• poetry: He talked to him some time and they recited poetry one to the other, for Silkan was fond of poetry.
• phrase: I'm fond of a phrase that says, ' always shoot the wolf on the sled first ' .
• drink: Jean keeps her date with James and discovers that he's rather too fond of drink.
• music: I can't remember the air, I never can, although I'm very fond of music.

Modifying Another Word

• passionately: I had fed him with part of one, of which he seemed passionately fond.
• inordinately: Macaulay never married, but was inordinately fond of his sisters and of his nieces.
• overly: It's kinda neat even tho ' I'm not overly fond of droughts.
• uncommonly: Than million in connection with phosphorescence interesting to see becquerel uncommonly fond.
• awfully: I'm awfully fond of the snaps you sent me.
• particularly: I am particularly fond of the Dr. Mix massacre of ' I Can't Control Myself ' .

Modifies a noun

• farewell: Amiga Format: 1989 - 2000 Amiga Active bids a fond farewell to their rival.
• memory: I have fond memories of the cast iron range in the front room there.
• recollection: I have some slides & pics from both trips which bring back fond recollections.
• remembrance: This occasion makes your mother and me look both backward with fond remembrances and forward with great hopes for your future.
• reminiscence: The main extra is a short series of fond reminiscences from the actors and director Randal Kleiser, actually filmed for the 20th anniversary.
• affection: The staff, many of us now retired, still talk about the Truro Festival with fond affection.

Used with adjective complement

• grow: Prior to the war, Miss Breed had grown fond of the children who visited the library.
• seem: A vocal minority seemed fond of the word " mission " .
• become: He became especially fond of his weekly visit to Dartmoor Prison.