Verb
take a fancy to (third-person singular simple present takes a fancy to, present participle taking a fancy to, simple past took a fancy to, past participle taken a fancy to)
(transitive) To become fond of someone or something.
Because I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one; or if I should, it is twenty to one he may not happen to be single, or to take a fancy to me. Anne Brontë