Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lad who led her in , the irate punter who looked up at her with contempt and muttered , ‘ You 're useless ’ , Bill , who made little effort to conceal his anger as she unsaddled Boardwalk . |
| 2 | Instinct and an adolescence spent in observation rather than practice told her this was the kind of man who ate little girls like Suzie for breakfast . |
| 3 | As Mason , the British heavyweight champion , has been brought forward along similar lines , his career nourished mainly by opponents who showed little inclination to remain upright , it should be clear that Biggs is thought to represent an ideal opportunity for advancement . |
| 4 | The first of that name , a Cardington-born brewer of porter , and a Member of Parliament , had lost his seat there in 1790 , and was succeeded by his son , who showed little interest in the family business and devoted his considerable talents to work of philanthropy and reform , as well as to patronage of the arts . |
| 5 | That applies especially to the Arbroath batsman , George Salmond , who showed little signs of the bad calf cut , sustained during a recent football match and which necessitated 18 stitches . |
| 6 | It had been too easily assumed that strong representation by teachers through their unions ( which usually meant representation by powerful and semi-professional members who spent little time in class-rooms ) would somehow guarantee the active interest and participation of large numbers of ordinary teachers . |
| 7 | Lady Onslow befriended Littlejohn , who lost little time in asking her to arrange a meeting between a Government minister and his brother Kenneth , who , he said , had some important intelligence about the IRA to pass on . |
| 8 | Anyway , he is surely to be congratulated on selling yards of Matthew Henry Bible commentaries to an earnest young Korean who knew little English ! |
| 9 | The expansion of educational opportunities in the less industrialised republics , again , led to the emergence of a substantial native intelligentsia who saw little reason for responsible positions in their locality to be filled by outsiders . |
| 10 | At that time he was like many young men of energy and ambition who saw little prospect of self-advancement in Ireland . |
| 11 | Agreed , there was little he could do to ‘ sweeten ’ the corpse , but so much depended on how the body was ‘ dress 'd and trimm 'd ’ ; few people would be willing to patronize a funeral furnisher who took little care over the presentation of bodies . |
| 12 | Her father was kindness itself , but he was the sort of man who gave little credit to anyone who had fallen from grace . |
| 13 | For example , among those carers living with a dementia sufferer , there were some who gave little care because the sufferer did not need much , because they went out to work , or because they themselves were frail ; and at the other extreme were people who ‘ did everything ’ for a sufferer , and rarely left the house without him or her . |
| 14 | And you were the kind lady who gave little Afgie the leprechaun , ’ she added with a warm smile . |
| 15 | On 1 September 1969 a Mr. Occhi , an Italian who spoke little English , arrived at Victoria Station on his first visit to this country . |
| 16 | On the other hand , it was for a very long time the only kind of popular medical and natural science handbook which was available to laypeople , who possessed little knowledge of such matters other than their own experiences and the tales of other . |
| 17 | Those who had little locomotor activity are hospitalised more often , have surgery more often and die sooner . |
| 18 | The defendant 's servant , who had little skill as a chauffeur , started the engine of the car and without any fault on his part the petrol in the carburettor caught fire . |
| 19 | Even among the former they failed to make a decisive impact upon the labour market before 1914 , due partly to workers ' suspicion of bureaucratic intervention in the labour market and to the indifference of employers , who had little difficulty in finding labour when they needed it . |
| 20 | The majority were individuals doing their national service , who had little enthusiasm for that , let alone for a task of this type in this perishingly cold country . |
| 21 | None the less , civilized people should not be called upon to suffer such cheek from the younger generation , who had little spending power and did nothing to justify their existence . |
| 22 | But to the father who had little sense of his divine power , he replied , ‘ If it is possible ! … |
| 23 | Worrell had been vice-captain against England in 1953–4 , but when Australia toured a year later the selectors ' feet , apparently , had turned cold ; Denis Atkinson , who had little captaincy experience , was made Stollmeyer 's deputy , and as Stollmeyer then missed three Tests through injury , found himself pitched in at the deep end . |
| 24 | The Webbs , who had little sympathy with Liberal cosmopolitanism , were happy to come to terms with the imperialist agenda in order to promote their own brand of statist socialism . |
| 25 | In a competitive match-up , the Eagles knocked the New York Giants out of the unbeaten ranks , leaving the Los Angeles Rams , who had little trouble with the Atlanta Falcons , with the League 's only perfect record . |
| 26 | He was probably very frustrated too as his bride , who had little time to be with him , was struggling to keep two homes running . |
| 27 | Fowler , who had little time for him , was mildly surprised at his erudition . |
| 28 | Grunte , who had little time for the Third World , said that as far as he was concerned , most of it seemed to have moved to Birmingham . |
| 29 | This was undertaken by one of the more experienced older women who had little understanding of possible complications . |
| 30 | Over a thousand students left their dormitories and protested outside the campus administrative building by putting up posters and calling for the resignation of key officials who had little understanding or sympathy with their plight . |