Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] have little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I seem to have little choice as far as you 're concerned . ’ |
| 2 | Following her second disappearance her father wrote , ‘ I 've had little hopes of her — I consider what I write — since she has been half a year old . ’ |
| 3 | For the last year , I have had little time for writing , though I get something down on paper when I can . |
| 4 | I 'm afraid I have had little time to entertain you or introduce you to Hochhauser . |
| 5 | Though she has had little education , her vocabulary is excellent : she fountains out ideas and observations at breathless speed . |
| 6 | Her sister would blame Claudia for tracking her down ; she would n't believe she 'd had little choice in the matter . |
| 7 | Now she seems to have little pain , and little hunger , although she takes what the boy gives her , and today , we have improved upon that . |
| 8 | Even promising young athletes do n't bring us out on a winter 's day ; we do have little tours of inspection , occasionally . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We 've had little time to rest since Saturday , and with the temperature soaring past the mid-eighties , the training has been quite tough and very exhausting . |
| 10 | In Britain we have had little chance of forming an opinion , certainly as to the first part of that sentence , but as to the second ( ‘ the richest , fullest … ‘ ) it coincides exactly with my own reaction to her Wigmore Hall recital in London . |
| 11 | Although the user can not be ignored and the need for user feedback in the design process has been advocated , in practice we have had little evidence of any move towards user behaviour monitoring and evaluation procedures being adopted by commercial suppliers of online catalogue systems . |
| 12 | There are many thousands of us soldiers that have ventured our lives ; we have had little propriety [ i.e. property ] in the kingdom as to our estates , yet we have had a birthright . |
| 13 | And er they felt had little prestige and that the French peop The French Canadian speakers had little prestige in their own language . |
| 14 | His words were ringing in her ears now although they had had little impact before . |
| 15 | They had had little time to socialise and some had lost contacts with friends and neighbours as a direct result of being in full-time employment . |
| 16 | They have had little success . |
| 17 | The senior nurse now acts as a support , resource and coordinator and a flattened hierarchy results : the senior nurse is the key to the professional development of staff who often come from a traditional nursing culture , where they have had little accountability . |
| 18 | Inadequate timetabling , the organisation of lessons during lunchtimes and instead of normal lessons or assemblies , the allocation of unsatisfactory classrooms , the poor arrangement of furniture for learning purposes , the lack of suitable materials — all these factors tend to discourage learners of community languages , especially where they have had little influence on the choice of their subject options when a community language is involved . |
| 19 | Besides , there have been so many opportunities for growth in countries that do not require local equity sharing that they have had little incentive to try to build businesses in those countries that do . |
| 20 | He has had little difficulty in attracting many former Shildon players to turn out , including several of the side which won the Durham Challenge Cup in 1969 . |
| 21 | The International Stock Exchange has called for more time to implement the changes but so far it has had little success . |
| 22 | In the west it has had little success ; in the east it has been a smash . |
| 23 | Although childhood socialisation has been important in electoral studies , it has had little application in decision making studies . |
| 24 | At the time the UK feed industry was concerned the situation should not escalate , but , in fact , it has had little impact on trade . |
| 25 | Lastly , where the LDDC has belatedly entered into ‘ agreements ’ with local authorities , such as with Newham and Tower Hamlets , and helped to set up training schemes like SKILLNET , designed to improve the skill levels of local communities , it has had little impact so far on getting local people into Docklands jobs . |
| 26 | It is also clear that current merger policy has been somewhat permissive , for while it has been effective in preventing a limited number of individually important mergers , it has had little impact upon the level of merger activity as a whole . |
| 27 | It has had little impact on voting intentions . |
| 28 | His account of the ‘ shattered , dirty , inconvenient , miserable hovels ’ that he entered has little relation to the picturesque idyll . |
| 29 | He 'd had little luck with the embassy . |
| 30 | She had always suspected that he 'd had little time for any brain power that she might possess — just as she had always known that her chief value for him had been the almost instantaneous sexual desire they had felt for each other . |