Example sentences of "[pers pn] made little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the accumulation of translated index cards , Edward and I made little progress , but our humour was good . |
| 2 | She made little money from journalism , having criticized too many auras for her own good . |
| 3 | However , we made little progress , since none of us knew what techniques would be appropriate . |
| 4 | Proposals such as these aroused considerable debate in the 1930s ( particularly on the question of whether , for every job vacated by an older worker , a new one would be created for a younger person ) , but they made little headway with the National Government . |
| 5 | They made little use of the youth clubs and other leisure facilities , other than as places to meet their mates . |
| 6 | Throughout the colonial period they made little use of the judicial system set up by the British and made few requests of their administrators . |
| 7 | However , they made little impact until in the mid-1960s the Milk Marketing Board began to notice that many of its top AI dairy bulls seemed to have plenty of Canadian blood in them . |
| 8 | They made little impact and at the end of the decade some of them resorted to terrorist attacks on senior officials in an effort to destabilize the government . |
| 9 | If there were changes in the political leadership of the country , they made little impact on me . |
| 10 | He made little attempt at conversation and showed no surprise that he should be asked to drive to Boulogne in the middle of the afternoon to pick up a well-dressed but grubby Englishman . |
| 11 | But he made little effort to develop this outside his own definitions of the genealogical method , while his shift into the problematics of power seemed to lead him into a labyrinth from which it was virtually impossible to extract himself . |
| 12 | It was all Isa could do to persuade Wilson to let some light in and dry her tears and tell her what ailed her ; and when she did so , it made little sense . |
| 13 | It never came close to winning an election anywhere and , despite the fears of Harry Pollitt , the Communist leader , it made little impact in London dockland around Wapping . |
| 14 | Even though James V had brought artillery with him to pound the walls , it made little impression , and in the end the besiegers ran out of gunpowder . |
| 15 | The more mischievous may suggest that , as an exercise in the once-discredited art of nationalisation , it was a huge success ; but as an attempt to apply market forces to public services it made little difference . |
| 16 | It made little difference . |
| 17 | It made little difference if a dreadful rash despoiled both little faces . |
| 18 | Recently books have been written querying the efficiency and use of Bomber Command aircraft in the night bombing of Germany , and asking whether it did help in the final defeat or whether in fact it made little difference . |
| 19 | After all , it made little difference : he would persuade Jean-Paul , Jean-Paul would persuade Louise ; the route was more circuitous , that was all . |
| 20 | We tried taking out the pith from behind the bud , and we tried leaving it in — it made little difference . |
| 21 | It made little difference that these needles had been for injections and not for some sinister Chinese purpose . |
| 22 | In a very real sense , therefore , the employers , whether farmers or landlords — in practice it made little difference — were not part of the rural village community as far as the agricultural worker was concerned . |
| 23 | But for the small time it took to put this inner up it made little difference . |
| 24 | It made little difference to the coal industry which continued to serve both . |
| 25 | It may have rained for hours , but it made little difference to the River Lambourn . |
| 26 | It made little difference as York 's full back Richard Stevenson bamboozled Novos with a hat-trick of exciting tries from set piece moves , the fourth being touched down by scrum half Martyn Harrison in the 49th minute . |