Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [verb] little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While you co-operate with them , the Iranian government will no doubt overlook your political leanings — and I 've little doubt they 'll be aware of them . |
| 2 | Apart from the accumulation of translated index cards , Edward and I made little progress , but our humour was good . |
| 3 | The weather was hot and I felt little interest in ruins ; but the Parthenon proved to have a matchless beauty for which I was quite unprepared . |
| 4 | The British sign language we use here has many similarities to the sign language used in Scotland and England and I have little difficulty in talking to deaf people on the mainland . |
| 5 | The English response was ineffective : the campaigns of the 1340s and 1350s had been essentially plundering raids , launched into enemy territory from secure bases ; but after 1369 England was thrown on to the defensive in Aquitaine , and she had little idea how to fight a defensive war . |
| 6 | Celia disliked Georgina intensely , and she had little doubt of her guilt . |
| 7 | Carrie was hard put to it and she had little time to talk with him , but it was not long before Billy turned up at the cafe eager to see his friend and Carrie directed him into the back room . |
| 8 | resulted in the controllers making … a puritan attack directed at the drug taking of the ( underground ) movement ; and since the drug-scene is complex and confused , and we have little time in which to develop a reliable folk-lore about drugs and how to take them ( as we have long ago done about alcohol ) , they have been particularly successful in fostering anxiety among teachers , parents and establishment figures . |
| 9 | Congresses and committees did not scrutinize military funding and expenditure , and they had little opportunity to discuss military actions : the government did not announce the ventures in Chad and Uganda ; nor did they disclose training given to Chaddian , Palestinian and perhaps other freedom-fighters ( Tunisian , for example ) . |
| 10 | This was not a powerful cabal , and they had little expectation of early success . |
| 11 | But taking up their suggestions and using their materials was always optional ; and they had little power to change the general attitude of the public towards the ‘ non-academic ’ . |
| 12 | Garry Whannel traced four main themes in the analysis of football hooliganism in the popular press in the 1970s : fans were ‘ mindless/senseless ’ ; they were ‘ maniacs/lunatics ’ ; ‘ foul/subhuman ’ ( which led some fans to chant back at the police and the respectable public ‘ We hate humans ’ ) ; finally that they were ‘ so-called supporters ’ and in a small minority , i.e. they made up only a very small percentage of the crowd and they had little interest in the game itself . |
| 13 | Back-bench MPs may be able to promote new policies through ‘ private members ’ Bills ' : These can not have direct financial implications for the government , and they have little chance of becoming law without government support . |
| 14 | The estate and the house might both be high-value assets , but the conditions of his inheritance forced him to keep both intact and he got little currency out of them beyond the woodland leases and the shooting rights . |
| 15 | It was wonderful to be so close to him again , to feel no barriers between them , and he wasted little time before possessing her with such quick , hot urgency that she was left behind . |
| 16 | Tom Watson 's interests are mainly technical , and he takes little interest in the retail side of the business . |
| 17 | His is a forlorn campaign , however , and he has little hope of success . |
| 18 | At first they were quite crude and it took little skill and expertise to forge the signature , and then fraudulently put them to financial advantage . |
| 19 | It does not need a gearbox , and it needs little maintenance . |
| 20 | There is a sense in which standing is a preliminary question , separate from that of the substance and merits of the applicant 's case : standing rules determine entitlement to raise and argue the issue of illegality , and it makes little sense to say that entitlement to argue the merits of the case depends on whether one has a good case on the merits . |
| 21 | A person may belong to several different families during his life , and it makes little sense to regard him as changing identity on leaving or entering a nuclear family . |
| 22 | I decided I must go up to Addis Ababa and try to get permission to start again , but I had little hope of succeeding . |
| 23 | I did it willingly because I still loved his company so much , but I had little money . |
| 24 | I 'm sorry , but I have little sympathy for him . |
| 25 | The betting is that Vorster and Kaunda will keep up their pressures , and that another round of the boxing-match will come before long ; but I see little hope there . |
| 26 | She felt happier about Kathleen now that she knew that she had a champion in Ella , but she had little time to dwell on the O'Neills . |
| 27 | But she saw little hope in that notion . |
| 28 | But she took little heed of her surroundings ; all her attention was focused on the man himself . |
| 29 | They drank wine , consulted the menu , ordered , but she took little notice of what she was eating , trying to calm the turmoil within her . |
| 30 | You were asleep , so we did n't wake you ; but we took little Billy to see . |