Example sentences of "i knew [adv] little " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I knew very little about school , but at least it would be a change , the start of a new life . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | To myself it 's a matter of well my first reaction was to ask the C I D if they knew the situation between o of , that was my first response actually to when the phone call came in , but I knew very little about . |
| 10 | In my early days , I had merely assumed , since I knew so little of industry , that I was employed to achieve certain ends . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But it had all happened so quickly — and I knew so little about you — except that I 'd fallen in love with you . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |