Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] little [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shouting at cats or hitting them has little effect . |
| 2 | Apart from the accumulation of translated index cards , Edward and I made little progress , but our humour was good . |
| 3 | I used little corner blocks to create the corner effect , and each of these is tongue and grooved on for strength . |
| 4 | But next day I 'm coming along the High Street when I meet little Darius — you know him ? — and he says there 's two guys broke into my flat and they 're waiting for me . ’ |
| 5 | In our half-hour chat , I meet Little Brother ( ‘ He always comes in when you want to shag your girlfriend ’ ) ; the Gits ( ‘ They like looking through the obituaries and camping out next to accident black spots ’ ) ; Lee and Lance ( ‘ a couple of garage owners , they spend all their time putting Garfield stickers on cars ’ ) ; and Euro-Man ( ‘ as far as he 's concerned , the Euro-Parliament is just one big Amsterdam squat ’ ) . |
| 6 | I give little coverage to the associated subject of the setting up of the model . |
| 7 | Though at this point I paid little notice to them as he did not emphasise them . |
| 8 | Bored stiff by him , I paid little attention : he retaliated by having me birched for idleness on three occasions , but these attempts to drive Latin into me from the wrong end proved equally unproductive . |
| 9 | Serum pepsinogen I shows little response to eating . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , I get little warning when they become exhausted — the set simply dies ( often in the middle of a transmission ) . ’ |
| 11 | It is not snowing , but there is enough wind to be chilling and the day is grey and misty , so I get little sense of where the camp is , with visibility only a few tens of metres . |
| 12 | I KILLED little Esmerelda because I felt I owed it to myself and to the world in general . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I HEARD LITTLE PRINCESS CALL HIM DADDY |
| 15 | A red semi-regular variable ; range 5.0 to 7.6 , period said to be about 130 days though I find little evidence of this . |
| 16 | Looking back at the variety of studies conducted on plants in the little field at Henfaes , I feel little temptation to explain the behaviour of organisms within it as perfectly fitted for adaptive optima in an ideally evolved ecosystem . |
| 17 | The weather was hot and I felt little interest in ruins ; but the Parthenon proved to have a matchless beauty for which I was quite unprepared . |
| 18 | ‘ So I wore little make-up , because I had to blend in . |
| 19 | I saw little evidence of it , certainly not from Kathy Kirby and Dusty Springfield . |
| 20 | From the corner of my eye I saw little Gino make his way over to the restaurant 's background music system . |
| 21 | In Magdalen 's communal life I took little part . |
| 22 | ‘ Immediately , though I took little notice of it when I was in Cheshire , I admit . |
| 23 | No matter that I had little knowledge of regional variety . |
| 24 | At the time I had little knowledge of dogs . |
| 25 | By the end of that season , when he won his first championship by a large margin , I had little doubt who had achieved the triumph : Niki is no braggart , but in the first of many longish talks , he explained to me that his nature was such that he really just could n't stand the second-rate ; and if you saw the second-rate around you , you had a clear choice — either you cleared out and found yourself the first-rate or you simply demanded that second-rate people became first-rate . |
| 26 | ‘ As a nurse , I could not understand why she did not directly approach the hospitals concerned , for at that time I had little doubt that she would have received informed , prompt , honest replies . ’ |
| 27 | The person was a friend and I knew she was a healer — although , as you will have realised , I had little idea what a healer was or did . |
| 28 | I had little idea at that time of the pernicious nature of cancer . |
| 29 | He had happened upon me at the crucial moment : I had little idea of who I was or what I was entitled to from life , let alone what it behoved me to contribute . |
| 30 | But I found I had little idea how to set about producing a crime short story . |