Example sentences of "[coord] he [verb] little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The estate and the house might both be high-value assets , but the conditions of his inheritance forced him to keep both intact and he got little currency out of them beyond the woodland leases and the shooting rights . |
| 2 | It was wonderful to be so close to him again , to feel no barriers between them , and he wasted little time before possessing her with such quick , hot urgency that she was left behind . |
| 3 | Tom Watson 's interests are mainly technical , and he takes little interest in the retail side of the business . |
| 4 | His is a forlorn campaign , however , and he has little hope of success . |
| 5 | But he adored little boys and when my son Mark was born , he became his godfather . ’ |
| 6 | The Marquis de Chamlay , his most important military adviser in his later years , had the title of Maréchal-Général des Logis ; but he had little experience of active service and was often employed on non-military tasks . |
| 7 | But he had little confidence of backing from a UK government which seemed to have no idea about the fishing industry . |
| 8 | But he had little reason yet to ask for a search warrant and Mr Simpson would go purple in the face and throw every legal book in his considerable library at him if he so much as tried . |
| 9 | True , there was Crown prince Tupouto'a waiting in the wings , but he spent little time in Tonga and had a reputation as a playboy — a Farouk-like figure given to white suits and expensive lady friends . |
| 10 | He was obliged to attend some party functions and to receive the chief guests along with the hostess , but he received little pleasure from such occasions and rarely attended them outside London . |
| 11 | But he made little effort to develop this outside his own definitions of the genealogical method , while his shift into the problematics of power seemed to lead him into a labyrinth from which it was virtually impossible to extract himself . |
| 12 | In public life , Holford served as Conservative MP for East Gloucestershire from 1854 to 1872 and was a JP , but he took little interest in politics . |
| 13 | But he has little hesitation in declaring that his successor as chairman of Esso has done a better job than he was able to achieve . |
| 14 | But he has little power to compel , that is , by his person . |
| 15 | He smashed the windscreen with one bullet and Adam felt a sliver of glass cut into his cheek , but he did little other damage . |
| 16 | He accepts that law is ‘ relatively autonomous ’ of the economy , but he finds little use for the ‘ base/superstructure metaphor ’ , rejecting what he sees as Althusser 's rigid division of social formations into different ‘ instances ’ or ‘ levels ’ . |
| 17 | They did not like his presence but he found little difficulty in scaring them off , or evading them if they tried to mob him , and the food in these places was plentiful . |
| 18 | But he found little guidance in Scripture as to how a subject or bishop should behave when his sovereign was determined to undo the Reformation . |
| 19 | I tried to engage him in conversation about the analogy between pottery and alchemy , and Laura prompted him to share ideas that had long been familiar to them both , but he showed little interest . |