Example sentences of "[noun] but it [verb] little " in BNC.
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| 1 | The heating was on inside the car but it did little to drive out the chill that seemed to have settled in her bones . |
| 2 | All the leading cars traded places briefly during a flurry of pit-stops but it had little effect on Prost who was able to pull clear and win comfortably . |
| 3 | All the leading cars traded places briefly during a flurry of pit-stops but it had little effect on Prost who was able to pull clear and win comfortably . |
| 4 | He had been carrying his umbrella but it did little to protect him . |
| 5 | Such a word may be useful to a literary man but it throws little light on Green 's intentions except when he uses it in a negative sense ; in one chapter he states a subject was ‘ unpicturesque and consequently not worth an artists attention ’ . |