Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Caring for him became an almost full-time job because he could do so little for himself ; and it was difficult for Mary and Jim to go out together , especially as her father grew less able to get around , and he needed a great deal of help at home . |
| 2 | But he could do little for them ; and now he is gone . ’ |
| 3 | Many names said the plan did too little for them ; they will continue to sue . |
| 4 | Owen was no fundamentalist , and many of his contemporaries ( especially those working in museums , and classifying vertebrates ) saw little for them in Darwinism : the family trees were hypothetical , and there was no independent evidence of real rather than ideal relationships . |
| 5 | A quick examination put her at ease but may have done little for her embarrassment ; the culprit was a misplaced liquorice all-sort . |
| 6 | That spat did little for her confidence as she faced a battery of cameras waiting outside Goldsmiths Hall . |
| 7 | The Wedding Present had managed themselves with a satisfying degree of success until Hallin 's arrival and it would appear that at first there was little for him to actually do . |
| 8 | The singing , the pomp and the pageantry may have galvanised Welsh emotions , but it did little for their skills or tactical awareness . |
| 9 | Some fifty successful local wage claims apart , and despite Wilson 's optimism in his Presidential Address at the Annual Conference of the union in September 1916 , seamen might have been forgiven for concluding that patriotism had done very little for their cause . |
| 10 | This does n't mean that the others had no ‘ powers ’ , that they seemed to do little for me may have been my own lack of receptivity . |
| 11 | Although the portrait was finished Lipchitz felt loath to pay Modigliani so little for his work , so he invented reasons for extra sittings . |
| 12 | His book of verse , Lucida Intervalla ( 1679 ) , does little for his reputation as a poet . |
| 13 | His earlier complete reversal of his position had done little for his credibility and now as he went after a tax cut his touch was decidedly uncertain . |
| 14 | There was little for his comfort . |
| 15 | He 's a doctor , a Chinese guy , works out in the New Territories , saves lives on a daily basis and gets paid very little for his considerable sacrifices and hard work . |
| 16 | I must write a grand opera or none at all ; if I write a small one , I shall get very little for it ( for everything is taxed here ) . |
| 17 | One of the reasons why farmers consume so much water is that they pay very little for it — between 1 and 2 per cent of the price paid in cities . |
| 18 | Even in July or August it is possible not only to find accommodation but to pay very little for it . |
| 19 | Admittedly , 200 years of wandering the earth in search of vengeance does little for anyone 's hairstyle or personal charm , but what on earth did that first Gittel see in her ? |
| 20 | The reality is that the Peshawar government as yet has little for anyone to recognise . |
| 21 | His attractive wife got out wearing too little for my ease . |
| 22 | ‘ I won close to Pounds 100,000 in four years on the tour — £60,000 of that during my first season in 1988 . |
| 23 | 11.2.2 where the Signage of 11.2.1 can not be removed or destroyed painting or otherwise covering from sight all signage incurring any of the Trade Marks in so far at least as it relates to the Trade Marks , |
| 24 | They gave away very little about themselves in their choice of the first Christmas presents . |
| 25 | It 's because people know so little about themselves that their knowledge of nature is so little use to them . |
| 26 | Elsie lived but we know very little about her beyond a few basic facts : she married an older man who was rather irascible and treated her badly ; she disappeared in mysterious circumstances when she was about twenty-six ; her body was discovered a year ago on the bed of the filled-in Loch Craig . |
| 27 | Yet even now I know little about her , Mrs Carson thought . |
| 28 | ‘ I know very little about her , although she worked for him in the war too . |
| 29 | She had lived in Darrowby for several years but the townsfolk knew little about her . |
| 30 | We still knew very little about them . |