Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] little time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I had little time for more than a quick glance round the room . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Amid all these shattering events I had little time to try to find out what had happened to Eric . |
| 5 | However , I had little time to waste on Maté . |
| 6 | She wasted little time in starting to eat , her quick brain turning over alternative scenarios as she debated whether to show herself to the Carlisle Flint team , or disappear quietly to her room . |
| 7 | It was lucky for her that she was so busy just then , as she had little time to think during the day , and at night she was so tired that she fell asleep directly she got into bed . |
| 8 | Although she had little time to help organize the newspaper project , as she buzzed around discussing it with friends and jotting down ideas it began to get up steam . |
| 9 | Carrie was hard put to it and she had little time to talk with him , but it was not long before Billy turned up at the cafe eager to see his friend and Carrie directed him into the back room . |
| 10 | An addict of the pipe herself , she had little time for her son — the only one of three to survive — and left his rearing to her own mother . |
| 11 | She had little time to care for herself , and even less time for planning and preparing meals with proper thought and care . |
| 12 | She felt happier about Kathleen now that she knew that she had a champion in Ella , but she had little time to dwell on the O'Neills . |
| 13 | The one , that , even while giving her a verbal warning about her work , he had handed her a very important file to work on — albeit only to ensure she had little time for anything else — must mean that he had received good reports on her ability . |
| 14 | She had little time for the slow-witted and the unenthusiastic , and just as she exaggerated the talents of those she loved , she tended to magnify the defects of those she disliked . |
| 15 | Indeed , we were so anxious to get the figures right that we had little time to spend explaining why what we proposed was morally necessary . |
| 16 | It meant however that we had little time to relate our studies at any deep level to Buddhism , but it seemed unanswerable that people must have a deep understanding of their own faith before they can go on to study that of other people . |
| 17 | With the exception of Hitchcock , whom they worshipped , they had little time for accepted and acclaimed directors , finding more value in the more commercial movies of , for instance , Howard Hawks and Raoul Walsh . |
| 18 | But , after that , they had little time to spend together , little to say to one another . |
| 19 | For a while they made so much work for the bailiffs that they had little time to harass the Nonconformists . |
| 20 | He wasted little time in finding a replacement , choosing the widowed Mary of Guise . |
| 21 | So in his first major speech as leader in parliament he wasted little time on the customary compliments and warned the government that he intended to play hard . |
| 22 | It was wonderful to be so close to him again , to feel no barriers between them , and he wasted little time before possessing her with such quick , hot urgency that she was left behind . |
| 23 | Once free of these troubles he wasted little time in turning his attention to England . |
| 24 | True , there was Crown prince Tupouto'a waiting in the wings , but he spent little time in Tonga and had a reputation as a playboy — a Farouk-like figure given to white suits and expensive lady friends . |
| 25 | When his friends the Barberini were obliged for political reasons to leave Rome in 1644 and settled in Paris he lost little time in entertaining them and the French Court with Italian operas . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Also he had little time . |
| 28 | He had little time to see them , to know them ; like others ' children , they were left to a nurse and Mrs Gracie . |
| 29 | In place of God-consciousness , for which he had little time , he wanted to put on the one hand the revelation made in Jesus and recoverable through the historical study of the New Testament , and on the other the moral and spiritual response to Jesus which issues in Christian living and acting . |
| 30 | He had little time for the confusion that the Council had appeared to generate in many parts of the Church . |