Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] little [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Shouting at cats or hitting them has little effect .
2 Apart from the accumulation of translated index cards , Edward and I made little progress , but our humour was good .
3 I used little corner blocks to create the corner effect , and each of these is tongue and grooved on for strength .
4 I give little coverage to the associated subject of the setting up of the model .
5 Though at this point I paid little notice to them as he did not emphasise them .
6 Bored stiff by him , I paid little attention : he retaliated by having me birched for idleness on three occasions , but these attempts to drive Latin into me from the wrong end proved equally unproductive .
7 Serum pepsinogen I shows little response to eating .
8 I KILLED little Esmerelda because I felt I owed it to myself and to the world in general .
9 I spent little time at home now , so I was unable to be a detailed witness to the Great Love in the same account-keeping way as before .
10 I HEARD LITTLE PRINCESS CALL HIM DADDY
11 A red semi-regular variable ; range 5.0 to 7.6 , period said to be about 130 days though I find little evidence of this .
12 The weather was hot and I felt little interest in ruins ; but the Parthenon proved to have a matchless beauty for which I was quite unprepared .
13 ‘ So I wore little make-up , because I had to blend in .
14 I saw little evidence of it , certainly not from Kathy Kirby and Dusty Springfield .
15 From the corner of my eye I saw little Gino make his way over to the restaurant 's background music system .
16 In Magdalen 's communal life I took little part .
17 ‘ Immediately , though I took little notice of it when I was in Cheshire , I admit .
18 No matter that I had little knowledge of regional variety .
19 At the time I had little knowledge of dogs .
20 By the end of that season , when he won his first championship by a large margin , I had little doubt who had achieved the triumph : Niki is no braggart , but in the first of many longish talks , he explained to me that his nature was such that he really just could n't stand the second-rate ; and if you saw the second-rate around you , you had a clear choice — either you cleared out and found yourself the first-rate or you simply demanded that second-rate people became first-rate .
21 ‘ As a nurse , I could not understand why she did not directly approach the hospitals concerned , for at that time I had little doubt that she would have received informed , prompt , honest replies . ’
22 The person was a friend and I knew she was a healer — although , as you will have realised , I had little idea what a healer was or did .
23 I had little idea at that time of the pernicious nature of cancer .
24 He had happened upon me at the crucial moment : I had little idea of who I was or what I was entitled to from life , let alone what it behoved me to contribute .
25 But I found I had little idea how to set about producing a crime short story .
26 I commented to Miklós that I had little hope of the New World solving the problems of the Old when it could not face up to its own difficulties .
27 I had little hope of re-employment , and so it seemed to me that the only thing to do was to set up in business , ’ he explains .
28 I decided I must go up to Addis Ababa and try to get permission to start again , but I had little hope of succeeding .
29 Up till about 1980 I had little experience of float fishing for big bream , and I do n't recall ever having read anything on the subject .
30 ‘ I must admit at that time I had little sympathy for the victims , having heard gruesome evidence at court , but my feelings have now changed .
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