Example sentences of "took little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young took little part in the civil war , was ejected from his deanery ( 1645 ) , and retired to Over Wallop , where he died 20 July 1654 . |
| 2 | In the 1656–8 Parliament , as a member for Surrey , he was active in committees but took little part in the debates . |
| 3 | In Magdalen 's communal life I took little part . |
| 4 | We took little William with us into the garden . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Meanwhile at least one offspring of the NPA flourishes — the ‘ English Through Activity ’ programme in Swaziland , where I found similar activity and enthusiasm in schools , talked to a committed supervisor who saw her role entirely as getting her materials — including issues of English Ladybird books — to rural schools as efficiently as possible and of encouraging ‘ active learning ’ , ( but of what and why she took little heed ) . |
| 7 | Although we took little heed of his departure , Ruth and I watched Alec being interviewed on TV when he returned . |
| 8 | But she took little heed of her surroundings ; all her attention was focused on the man himself . |
| 9 | The verderers hurried along the forest path and took little notice of Marian . |
| 10 | She took little notice until it reappeared on her own side , and drew up alongside her . |
| 11 | They took little notice of her , though ; the rough , bawdy crowd were more interested in the fortunes of their local football teams , Millwall and West Ham . |
| 12 | They drank wine , consulted the menu , ordered , but she took little notice of what she was eating , trying to calm the turmoil within her . |
| 13 | ‘ Immediately , though I took little notice of it when I was in Cheshire , I admit . |
| 14 | Not surprisingly , Muscovites took little notice of the death among them of Uvarov , for in the atmosphere of late 1855 Granovskii and Shchepkin were dearer to their hearts than a former government minister . |
| 15 | Protestant commentators were very aware that the papacy retained the right to depose excommunicated rulers , and took little comfort from the fact that many English recusants had taken a special oath of allegiance to the crown . |
| 16 | Her family did not much understand gardening either , and took little pleasure in the fruit of their unskilled , social labours ; as far back as she could remember , Clara could recollect her mother 's perpetual nagging at her father to cut the lawn , her father 's occasional outburst of resentment against the boys who trampled on the borders . |
| 17 | You were asleep , so we did n't wake you ; but we took little Billy to see . |
| 18 | The English took little note of the fantasy before about 1585 ; the favourite form was still the ‘ In nomine ’ . |
| 19 | Agreed , there was little he could do to ‘ sweeten ’ the corpse , but so much depended on how the body was ‘ dress 'd and trimm 'd ’ ; few people would be willing to patronize a funeral furnisher who took little care over the presentation of bodies . |
| 20 | It took little time to decide that her new mama was just like the doll , with her big blue eyes , and her made up face and blonde hair . |
| 21 | Goldsmith was allowed to withdraw his prosecution after a settlement with " Private Eye " , and an Old Bailey jury took little time to acquit the authors of " Johnny Go Home " after a two-week trial . |
| 22 | The surveys described above , that showed large numbers of patients suffering from psychosomatic symptoms , took little account of the possibility of food intolerance . |
| 23 | First , Phillips took little account of the degree of trade union militancy in deriving his relationship : according to the cost-push theories outlined in section 6.3 , an increase in union militancy will raise the rate of wage inflation independently of the state of demand . |
| 24 | As a member of a monkish order , Gilbert took little account of parochial and diocesan systems . |
| 25 | If Gilbert Racy took little account of ecclesiastical structures , his attitude to secular ones was solipsistic . |
| 26 | However mistaken he thought that she might be , and that her vision of life was based on a charming naïveté which took little account of the cruel realities of existence , it was , to him , admirable that she should care about such things , and in such a practical way when all was said and done . |
| 27 | Common sense said otherwise , but the unheeding kindness of the very poor took little account of that , Sally-Anne had found . |
| 28 | She took little account of time , and was hardly even aware that she had been placed in Lady Merchiston 's old bedchamber . |
| 29 | The other story I recall to mind about this time is that Cranwell in those days must have been the coldest spot south of the Arctic Circle and the ration of coal to fire the single stove in a billet of 22 erks took little account of the temporary hutment , Some genius had laid down that the ration of coal would he 1lb of coal every other day was sufficient to ward off armies of brass monkeys that descended on Cranwell in winter . |
| 30 | In the dark , she took little steps , her hands out before her . |