Example sentences of "i know [adv] little " in BNC.
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| 1 | How can I ever become a good painter when I know so little geometry and mathematics ? |
| 2 | I 've always been intrigued by the Catholic church , by all the colours and the candles , but I know so little about it … when we studied existentialism in high school , I felt that that was exactly right , but now I just do n't know … |
| 3 | ‘ I know so little . ’ |
| 4 | It would not be right for me to say that he was wrongly ennobled , because I know too little about him to be able to detect whatever surprising quality it was that commended itself to Harold Wilson for admission to the House of Lords . |
| 5 | ‘ I know too little of you , yet I know too much . |
| 6 | I know as little of love as I do of painting , he thought . |
| 7 | I know very little about gardening , but I am keen to learn more , as I develop my garden . |
| 8 | Darwin himself had little sympathy for these ideas and not much , personally , for Spencer , though he did once say — I quote Burrow ( p. 182 ) — ‘ in a moment of enthusiasm … that Spencer 's Principles of Biology made him feel that he ‘ is about a dozen times my superior ’ , and thought that Spencer might one day be regarded as the equal of Descartes and Leibniz , rather spoiling the effect by adding , ‘ about whom , however , I know very little ’ ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ I know very little , ’ Dowd protested . |
| 10 | If I know very little about the firm or the people in it , then , to reduce my uncertainty , I will invent my own snapshots of what to expect . |
| 11 | ‘ I know very little about her , although she worked for him in the war too . |
| 12 | ‘ I know very little , ’ Lucien said , and was about to add , ‘ it was not part of the Vibrancy studies ’ , but remembered in time that that was a remark suitable only for Walterkin 's ears . |
| 13 | ‘ On the contrary , I know very little about you at all , Gina Price . |
| 14 | And again , long moments later , he added the qualification : ‘ Though I want to tell you one thing — I know very little about them . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I see that I know very little . |
| 16 | Eh , I , I do n't know , it 's quite large , I found it 's quite big as one , I do n't know , , I know very little of . |
| 17 | and erm there was no final erm sort of er judgment to be had so erm then we had to call meetings of this little Sub Committee who finally made up their minds and I remember typing reports , quite long reports , about erm Rhode Island Reds er crossed with Light Sussex and Light Sussex crossed with er Brown and erm I , I knew precious little about poultry at that time . |
| 18 | For example , when I began researching into social aspects of book reading I knew very little at all about publishing or bookselling and my experience of libraries was mainly limited to being a user of them . |
| 19 | At this time I began , having been converted through reading the gospels , carefully to read the book of Acts and discovered there a level of Christian effectiveness of which I knew very little . |
| 20 | I knew very little about boats , and had hated what little experience of sailing I had had , but it seemed unlikely that any boat would shut down its engine until it was safely round into the bay , or even then . |
| 21 | I knew very little about school , but at least it would be a change , the start of a new life . |
| 22 | He relapsed into silence then , and because my mind was still trying to grapple with the politics of a country I knew very little about , I failed to ask him whether Gómez had made that flight on his own or if he had had a crew with him . |
| 23 | At that time I knew very little about Montaigne : but Eliot had come to him through Shakespeare and the influences upon Shakespeare ( who must have read the Apologie de Raymond Sebond ) ; and , as he said in his essay on Pascal , Montaigne 's outlook is the only credible alternative to that of belief . |
| 24 | ‘ I knew very little about Irish League football when I came back from Nottingham Forest , except that Linfield and Glentoran were the top two clubs . |
| 25 | In my early days , I had merely assumed , since I knew so little of industry , that I was employed to achieve certain ends . |
| 26 | I knew so little about who had held them and how they had got out , it seemed as if they had come from a different world , a different time . |
| 27 | But it had all happened so quickly — and I knew so little about you — except that I 'd fallen in love with you . ’ |
| 28 | Somehow we then got on to the theme of French poetry , and Eliot expressed surprise at one of Herbert Read 's recent pronouncements on Laforgue and another nineteenth-century poet I can not recall and about whom at the time I knew too little to be able to arrive at an opinion . |