Example sentences of "[pron] had little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No matter that I had little knowledge of regional variety . |
| 2 | At the time I had little knowledge of dogs . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I had little idea at that time of the pernicious nature of cancer . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But I found I had little idea how to set about producing a crime short story . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | I decided I must go up to Addis Ababa and try to get permission to start again , but I had little hope of succeeding . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | I did it willingly because I still loved his company so much , but I had little money . |
| 15 | Customs officer Steve , 27 , of Corringham , Essex , said : ‘ I had little choice in the matter . ’ |
| 16 | You bullied me into becoming your girlfriend , so I had little choice but to obey , but now I 've grown up . |
| 17 | But little of the necessary reading for " Schools " interested me : I had little interest in constitutional development , political theory or economic growth , none at all in the Industrial Revolution and the technical and scientific achievements that ushered in the modern age . |
| 18 | I said that without my dear brother I had little care where I was , and no one I wished to speak to . |
| 19 | I had little time for more than a quick glance round the room . |
| 20 | This reinforced my interest in the subject , but as I soon became involved in postgraduate studies in busy medical , surgical and then paediatric units I had little time to pursue it at that stage . |
| 21 | Amid all these shattering events I had little time to try to find out what had happened to Eric . |
| 22 | However , I had little time to waste on Maté . |
| 23 | A work ethos was established that was individualistic , acquisitive and incentive-oriented , but which had little sense of solidarity or mutuality that might supersede this narrowly-conceived achievement ethic . |
| 24 | The existence of a fundamental ‘ life energy ’ has been postulated for thousands of years in many different civilizations , and crops up independently from sources which had little contact with each other . |
| 25 | The poor relationships between siblings was more common in families which had little organization , poor discipline , and monitoring of the children by the parents . |
| 26 | This was a challenging task even for an accomplished side which had little time to acclimatise or practise . |
| 27 | This may have been characterised by a mystic other-worldliness which had little time for the concerns of this world , and the working out of faith in relation to the everyday challenges of life . |
| 28 | At this stage , the Shah himself had little idea what was being planned , Indeed , he even suspected the British of conspiring with Mossadeq against him . |
| 29 | 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 ’ ’ . |
| 30 | Lavinia had had relationships before although he himself had little interest in women . |