Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] little [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | too as you know ‘ full-circled ’ with her marriage to divorce ! & & had little in Sept. who is a delightful baby . |
| 2 | It has the usual complement of flowerbeds , vegetable patches , close-trimmed lawn , shrubs , trees and well-swept paths , and differs little in appearance from neighbouring gardens . |
| 3 | and expect little in return . |
| 4 | I used the PCW version and found little at fault , except , that the limitations imposed upon it by the hardware made it slow to operate . |
| 5 | Certainly the private services sector is growing in output and employment and suffered little from recession . |
| 6 | The most recent studies suggest that more than a third of employers discriminate against black applicants for jobs , and that levels of discrimination are the same for Asian and Afro-Caribbean applicants , for men and women , and vary little between job categories , although previous studies have documented higher levels of racial discrimination in relation to unskilled manual jobs ( Brown and Gay , 1985 ; Smith , 1977 ) . |
| 7 | Certainly Cromwell regarded them with some anxiety , and in 1533 he made Throckmorton promise that he would ‘ stay at home and meddle little with politics ’ . |
| 8 | These records establish his importance ( his operations were crucial to the establishment of the Angevin dynasty in England ) but supply little by way of biographical information . |
| 9 | Mrs Stevens had given her up as drowned but said little to Mr Johnson . |