Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] little as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nothing so little as grace at first , and nothing more glorious afterward : things of greatest perfection are longest in coming to their growth … |
| 2 | They would n't want someone as little as her . |
| 3 | ‘ As long as you remember that I want to see you as little as possible . |
| 4 | ‘ We 'll try to inconvenience you as little as possible . ’ |
| 5 | And when the press come bothering , just tell them as little as you need . |
| 6 | Now I listen to there , I do n't listen as often now unless there 's something big on , and you hear them , you know , check on , whatever it is , your vehicle check and I have seen them as little as five seconds coming back and saying who owns that car |
| 7 | ‘ Next time it will be better ’ comforts him as little as ‘ Never mind , we 'll open a tin of something ’ soothes her wounded self-esteem at a spoiled supper . ’ |
| 8 | It 's something we 've just had to accept , and we try to clip him as little as possible . |
| 9 | Tell him as little as possible . |
| 10 | I naturally charged him as little as possible but the money he earned went on other things — fresh meat from the butcher , extra milk and biscuits . |
| 11 | I wish I could love her as little as I like her . |
| 12 | In the next few months Bathsheba noticed miserably that Gabriel communicated with her as little as possible , and then only by messenger . |
| 13 | Few historical labels are more ambiguous than ‘ feudal ’ , and for that reason I shall use it as little as possible . |
| 14 | You will probably want to continue adding a pinch of salt to your cooking water for potatoes , pasta and rice , but make it as little as possible . |
| 15 | She must be careful to betray it as little as possible if the interview were to go the way she wanted . |
| 16 | Their prime responsibility is to attend to the political affairs of the nation : rightly understood , a task so important and exacting that they should be distracted from it as little as possible by the relatively trivial business generated in their surgeries . |
| 17 | You do n't have to actually look at the price list and say oh well I 'll have a back and shoulder massage , which is ten pound , you do n't have to have anything for ten pound , you can have it as little as five pounds , two pound fifty , we do n't mind , it can go towards a treatment . |
| 18 | Rachaela touched it as little as possible . |
| 19 | But I used it as little as I could , though if the wind stayed in the south-west I thought I 'd probably have to use it for the later part of today 's outing . |
| 20 | Is it as little as that ? |
| 21 | you 'll have to give it as little as it you know |
| 22 | Oh we try and use ours as little as possible but still we 've had high bills . |