Example sentences of "she have little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the authorities say she has little chance of getting them back . |
| 2 | In contrast to the immediate post-war generation of Conservative leaders , Churchill , Eden , Butler , and Macmillan , she has little sense of guilt ( ‘ bourgeois guilt ’ was the phrase she used in New York to the Institute of Economic Studies on 15 September 1975 ) for the unemployment of the 1930s . |
| 3 | She has little patience with any feminist arguments against such pin-ups . |
| 4 | Except for Sting and George Michael ( 'wonderful voice , writes great songs ' ) , she has little time for most modern pop . |
| 5 | Particularly , she has little time for a group called Yello , the Swiss electro-band with whom she collaborated on a single last year , much in the way Liza Minelli and the Pet Shop Boys or Gene Pitney and Marc Almond have . |
| 6 | Examples of this reciprocal effect lie in the man who is engrossed in his work to the detriment of his married life or the woman who is so wrapped up in her children that she has little time for her husband . |
| 7 | She has little interest in achieving consensus . |
| 8 | She had little idea as to the extent of his amputation and of his various trips back and forth from theatre . |
| 9 | The English response was ineffective : the campaigns of the 1340s and 1350s had been essentially plundering raids , launched into enemy territory from secure bases ; but after 1369 England was thrown on to the defensive in Aquitaine , and she had little idea how to fight a defensive war . |
| 10 | Although convinced that she had been drugged before the race at York , she had little chance of persuading three Jockey Club stewards that she had not been drunk , out of her depth , hysterical , and she did n't want Nick to know either . |
| 11 | Being in an alleyway with only two exits , she had little chance of escape ; she was too shocked even to think of escape anyway . |
| 12 | She had little chance to talk or rest , and at lunch time was about to start eating when she noticed d'Urberville approaching . |
| 13 | In terms of her own policy , she had little choice ; she needed the support of leading Protestants as well as leading Catholics to complete the link with France . |
| 14 | But when the prince reminded her — oh , so gently — of the deception practised upon his royal parents on Twelfth Night , Anne realized she had little choice . |
| 15 | But then , she had little choice ; he would n't allow her to sleep in the car or to remain here without him . |
| 16 | He threw the handkerchief carelessly into a laundry basket , then before she knew what was happening , he was kissing the tips of her fingers , then her palms , then drawing her hands towards him so that she had little choice but to slide her arms around him and receive his kiss . |
| 17 | She had little choice . |
| 18 | She had little choice but to let him draw her close against him , until she was pressed tightly into the hard curve of his body . |
| 19 | Although the farmer expected his wife to cope , in many cases she had little preparation for the job . |
| 20 | Maria Iñes was dumpy and talkative ; Maria Teresa was dark and very like João , though not quite so good looking , and Maria de Graça was taller , plainer , and so intent upon winning herself a place in Heaven that she had little conversation for anyone apart from Padre Jorge , an oily man with plump little hands and a great anxiety to be first to agree with Dom João in everything he said . |
| 21 | His voice sounded so matter-of-fact that she had little difficulty in ignoring the more flattering words . |
| 22 | She was reasonably attractive , and outgoing , and normally she had little difficulty in establishing cordial relationships in both her working and social life . |
| 23 | She had little memory of this period later on . |
| 24 | However , she had little patience with those non-conforming ministers who continually moaned and complained about their losses and dangers , and , ‘ would have no man be a minister that had not so much self denial as to lay down all at the feet of Christ , and count no cost of suffering too dear to serve Him . ’ |
| 25 | She soon decided that the house was the most beautiful place she had ever seen , and though she had little experience of antique furniture or fine art works she immediately recognised that all the things she saw were of the highest quality . |
| 26 | She had little money for clothes , but that did not matter ; it did not even matter , much , to her , though sometimes she wished she had more than two dresses , one pink , one grey . |
| 27 | Celia disliked Georgina intensely , and she had little doubt of her guilt . |
| 28 | That questions and recriminations would creep in later she had little doubt , but for the moment she simply wanted to shut out the rest of the world , to step back into that circle of magic they had created , first in the pool , then in the factory car park when they had somehow made the rest of the world go away . |
| 29 | That David 's strange behaviour had something to do with Jennifer she had little doubt , so whatever would a meeting between them bring forth ? |
| 30 | She had little doubt that she had allowed her heart to rule her head , and , much as she had enjoyed what had happened between her and David , could she ultimately trust a man who had treated her sister the way he had ? |