Example sentences of "[vb past] little [coord] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their careless , feckless , irresponsible father was gone and though he contributed little or nothing to their care or well-being while he lived , his going left an enormous gap in each of their lives . |
| 2 | My early assumptions as a reader were that black people signified little or nothing in the imagination of white American writers . |
| 3 | But the states for which the nineteenth century had been a success story , Germany and still more Great Britain , showed little or nothing of the desire for officially-backed dissemination of their culture and advertisement of their intellectual achievements which was so noticeable in France . |
| 4 | He lost little or nothing by the concession and , as we have seen , the papal letters had for some time indicated the likelihood of such a solution being acceptable at Rome . |
| 5 | The general world outside knew little or nothing of them . |
| 6 | In Malta the Navy knew little or nothing about what was happening — probably because of radio silence in the British Fleet . |
| 7 | The snag in all this thinking was that most of the people involved knew little or nothing about producing mass-market newspapers . |
| 8 | Many recognised the ‘ Rameses ’ and ‘ Catherine ’ titles , but had seen neither show , and knew little or nothing about the imminent Turkish and Vatican exhibitions . |
| 9 | Minton 's friends were aware that Edie Lamont was an important figure in Minton 's life , but most knew little or nothing about her . |
| 10 | She herself knew little or nothing about the organisation , and Donna wished she could have happened upon someone as knowledgeable on the subject as Mahoney had been . |
| 11 | It occurred to Edward that he knew little or nothing about rook behaviour . |
| 12 | ‘ We found fewer than a fifth of bank and building society branches publicised the code with posters or leaflets , and staff knew little or nothing about it . |
| 13 | It was proof that what had meant so much to her meant little or nothing to him . |
| 14 | He thought little or nothing about law , or jurisdiction , or faculty . |
| 15 | They saw little or nothing of each other . |
| 16 | A TRANMERE man who attacked two sisters at a party told police he remembered little or nothing about it because of the quantity of drink he had consumed . |
| 17 | The CDP had welcomed the broad direction in which the CNAA 's discussions had been going in 1975 , but liked little or nothing in the Partnership in Validation document . |