Example sentences of "[pers pn] had little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No matter that I had little knowledge of regional variety . |
| 2 | At the time I had little knowledge of dogs . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I had little idea at that time of the pernicious nature of cancer . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But I found I had little idea how to set about producing a crime short story . |
| 9 | I commented to Miklós that I had little hope of the New World solving the problems of the Old when it could not face up to its own difficulties . |
| 10 | ‘ I had little hope of re-employment , and so it seemed to me that the only thing to do was to set up in business , ’ he explains . |
| 11 | I decided I must go up to Addis Ababa and try to get permission to start again , but I had little hope of succeeding . |
| 12 | Up till about 1980 I had little experience of float fishing for big bream , and I do n't recall ever having read anything on the subject . |
| 13 | ‘ I must admit at that time I had little sympathy for the victims , having heard gruesome evidence at court , but my feelings have now changed . |
| 14 | I did it willingly because I still loved his company so much , but I had little money . |
| 15 | Customs officer Steve , 27 , of Corringham , Essex , said : ‘ I had little choice in the matter . ’ |
| 16 | You bullied me into becoming your girlfriend , so I had little choice but to obey , but now I 've grown up . |
| 17 | But little of the necessary reading for " Schools " interested me : I had little interest in constitutional development , political theory or economic growth , none at all in the Industrial Revolution and the technical and scientific achievements that ushered in the modern age . |
| 18 | I said that without my dear brother I had little care where I was , and no one I wished to speak to . |
| 19 | I had little time for more than a quick glance round the room . |
| 20 | This reinforced my interest in the subject , but as I soon became involved in postgraduate studies in busy medical , surgical and then paediatric units I had little time to pursue it at that stage . |
| 21 | Amid all these shattering events I had little time to try to find out what had happened to Eric . |
| 22 | However , I had little time to waste on Maté . |
| 23 | I had had to wait seven years for Evans 's pardon and another seven years for Meehan 's , and , knowing the reluctance of the Home Office even to consider whether a mistake has been made , far less admit it , I had little hopes of any quick remedial action . |
| 24 | She had little idea as to the extent of his amputation and of his various trips back and forth from theatre . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Being in an alleyway with only two exits , she had little chance of escape ; she was too shocked even to think of escape anyway . |
| 28 | She had little chance to talk or rest , and at lunch time was about to start eating when she noticed d'Urberville approaching . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |