Example sentences of "he had little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who did know him had little idea that he was a dangerous psychotic , who nurtured a deep hatred for his parents . |
| 2 | He had little conviction that he could fulfil this role properly , his own experience of being fathered having been so grossly inadequate . |
| 3 | The Development Corporation of Harlow New Town made a flat available , but unfortunately he had little opportunity to make his mark because of recurrent illness and eventually resigned his post in September 1958 . |
| 4 | Coming almost certainly from a middle-class or working-class home , once his seminary days were over he had little opportunity for further education . |
| 5 | He had little vision of what Panama could become . |
| 6 | He had little knowledge of Hurricanes and none of air fighting . |
| 7 | I can imagine the mordant amusement with which Sir Ian watched the poll tax legislation of a government with which he had little sympathy being hissed off the statute book amid public disorder to the alarm of its erstwhile supporters . |
| 8 | He had little sympathy with Eileen , although he was polite and briskly reassuring . |
| 9 | Later he had little attraction for the Caroline Divines or the Oxford Movement , to tease whose members the Martyrs ' Memorial at Oxford was built in commemoration of the execution of Cranmer , Latimer and Ridley ; the consciences of Newman , Pusey and Keble were exquisitely tom as they tried to decide whether to subscribe and how their subscriptions to the Memorial Fund might be earmarked for the least heretical of the martyrs . |
| 10 | His quarrel with Luther meant that he had little influence in Germany , but there was something about his insistence on thrift , application , and hard work for its own sake that struck sympathetic chords in the Zurich temperament . |
| 11 | He was sort of evasive and fey and appeared relatively shy and my impression of him at the time was that he had little charisma , no star quality and not a lot of talent , and it came as a big surprise when he became as successful as he was . |
| 12 | In the past , he had little hope of talking about his life to anyone beyond his immediate , equally oppressed , community . |
| 13 | He had little success , however , in his efforts to persuade the Dutch that Sukarno was a man with whom they could do business and found himself a reluctant pig in the middle , reviled by one side as a fascist imperialist and by the other as an irresponsible revolutionary . |
| 14 | But in the early 1160s he had little success at bending the Welsh princes to his will , while one major invasion attempt in July 1165 was thwarted by atrocious summer weather . |
| 15 | in the Davis Straits whale fishery ; he had little success and did not go again . |
| 16 | Elsewhere he had little success . |
| 17 | He had little difficulty in persuading Mrs Pargeter to run into Mondano with him and cash some traveller 's cheques . |
| 18 | And Lloyd found , in a milieu still heavily influenced by the Communist Party , that he had little difficulty in outselling the Morning Star when he took it on the streets . |
| 19 | He had little skill in forest lore but he knew the principal rides and paths of the forest well . |
| 20 | The Reverend Archibald Menzies , minister to the stony and muddy village of Dull , was not exactly the pride of his parishioners — he had little chance of being that , since he had been chosen by the laird , not elected by the people . |
| 21 | He had little chance ; the Revolutionary Guards at the airport , famished by Ramadan , took it away and ate it . |
| 22 | Once it had gone , though , he had little chance against Ivanisevic , who bombed down another 18 aces , to leave him needing just eight more for an astonishing 1,000 in all tennis this year . |
| 23 | Eastwood 's superb kicking was the vital difference between the sides , although he had little chance of grabbing the try he needed for a career total of 100 as Hull took a winning route up the middle of the field . |
| 24 | Innocent was beset with problems which he had little chance of solving as the sands constantly shifted and political and economic undercurrents conditioned behaviour . |
| 25 | In this 1976 series he was still unsure of himself tactically , gave the impression that he had little plan of campaign thought out , and often seemed to be changing his bowling and field settings more on a whim than on a good tactical basis . |
| 26 | He had little idea as to how far they had come and had lost count of how many times they had fallen . |
| 27 | He had little patience with learning lines , a habit which spread to members of his company . |
| 28 | Never intolerant of individuals , he had little patience for pettiness of mind . |
| 29 | While Hurley remained preoccupied with inter-agency projects like Operation Goldenrod , Ganem soon made it clear to Coleman that he had little patience with Hurley 's intelligence operations . |
| 30 | Coleridge had struggled hard with Osorio , and even now he had little faith that it could succeed on stage . |