Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] little [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd talked little on the way back , Delaney desperately trying to find another reason , however unlikely , for Connors not briefing him fully . |
| 2 | Whereas Flynn was at the other end of the scale , for , despite his external charm , he really seemed to care little about anybody 's well-being — possibly because he cared nothing for his own . |
| 3 | For them , theory consisted of broad speculation which seemed to need little in the way of systematic data collection , while for empirical research on social life , such theories seemed to be of little relevance . |
| 4 | This had been the cause of the 1925 dispute , and the situation had altered little between 31 July 1925 , ‘ Red Friday ’ and 1 May 1926 when the coal lock-out began . |
| 5 | The 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act had said little about women . |
| 6 | He had grown little in those two summers and she was now as tall as he but although her scrambling life on the Down had made her tough and wiry she was not as strong or as agile . |
| 7 | She had written little in the hour before the sudden sound had startled her and she began to sing to herself , the words of that same song she had sung so long before in this same room . |
| 8 | A woman with candyfloss hair glared at them in open-mouthed amazement , for their voices had risen little by little . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , some teachers claimed that the appraisal had produced little in the way of changes and some had difficulty in remembering quite what the adviser had proposed at their own feedback session . |
| 10 | During the hours she slept Allen had extracted little by little from Tom All Alone the story of what had taken place there during the night . |
| 11 | Mayne , who had retired to bed when they left , still mourning McGonigal , had contributed little to the training programme . |
| 12 | Increasingly the Scots were coming to feel that they had benefited little from the establishment of the new regime in 1689 , and as a result Jacobitism north of the border took on nationalistic overtones . |
| 13 | Philip had been slow to move and he had gained little by coronation by such a lowly archbishop as Tarentaise — Trier , Salzburg , Bremen and Magdeburg were all unavailable . |
| 14 | The opening campaign of the war had achieved little except the Flemish alliance and the destruction of the French fleet , and Edward returned home on 30 November to face a domestic political crisis . |
| 15 | It seemed that Britain was wealthy enough for some redistribution to be possible , as , arguably , it had not been in the 1830s , and that voluntary effort had achieved little in this respect . |
| 16 | Some Women 's Action Groups were at the forefront of strike activity , sustaining its momentum ; indeed , many of the women involved were opposed to the final return to work , which they perceived as a capitulation by the men , after great hardship which had achieved little in tangible terms ( Young , 1985 ; Witham , 1986 ; Bloomfield , 1986 ) . |
| 17 | From our interviews and observations it was apparent that many members were experiencing frustration through a lack of sense of direction or achievement in this field ( in the survey 25% of respondents felt that their board had achieved little in any field of activity ) , although they were not clear how this might be improved . |
| 18 | Proving that Yeltsin had lost little by the forced resignations of some of his closest ministers during recent months , it was announced on Dec. 29 that Mikhail Poltoranin , until late November Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Press and Information [ see p. 39202 ] , was to become the head of a new Federal Information Service , which would distribute information about government policy . |
| 19 | Duncan had learnt little from Louise Taylor ; she had woken earlier than he expected , had wanted to eat . |
| 20 | He learned quickly — a vital quality , as Roosevelt had confided little in his Vice-President , and Truman knew few details of government policy . |
| 21 | Ron Todd , general secretary of the Transport and General Workers ' Union , said they found in this year 's dock strike that some judges had changed little since the days of the Tolpuddle Martyrs or Taff Vale . |
| 22 | However , while battles such as those of the Jarama ( February 1937 ) , Guadalajara ( March 1937 ) and Brunete ( July 1937 ) were fought bitterly and with heavy casualties on both sides , as the Civil War entered its second year the fronts around Madrid had changed little since the previous November . |
| 23 | It had changed little since then , a street where people minded their own business , principally that of supplying their own kind with meals remarkable for value and cheapness . |
| 24 | The alternative solution is that the structure of ownership had changed little since 1522 , and that most land values recorded at that date represented the profits from subletting customary holdings — mostly in small parcels since the sums involved did not generally exceed ten or twelve shillings . |
| 25 | In fact , the couple 's furnishing style had changed little since their student days . |
| 26 | Pravda 's financial difficulties had led to a brief suspension in March [ see pp. 38825 ; 38874 ] , but its pro-communist line had changed little since its reappearance following a ban in August 1991 for alleged support for the attempted coup [ see pp. 38418 ] . |
| 27 | Salisbury Plain had changed little since Blake 's day . |
| 28 | Thus after six months of Nazi rule in Germany the " United Front had changed little in its essentials . |
| 29 | This maldistribution of income had changed little by 1900 . |
| 30 | The situation had changed little by 1960 , when the figures were 145% and 82% respectively . |