Example sentences of "he [vb past] little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who did know him had little idea that he was a dangerous psychotic , who nurtured a deep hatred for his parents . |
| 2 | He made little attempt at conversation and showed no surprise that he should be asked to drive to Boulogne in the middle of the afternoon to pick up a well-dressed but grubby Englishman . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He wasted little time in finding a replacement , choosing the widowed Mary of Guise . |
| 5 | So in his first major speech as leader in parliament he wasted little time on the customary compliments and warned the government that he intended to play hard . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Once free of these troubles he wasted little time in turning his attention to England . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When he first raised the idea with Mikhail Gorbachev and Edward Shevardnadze in 1987 , he got little response . |
| 10 | But in Protestant England , even in Oxford under the chancellorship of Archbishop Laud , he encountered little resistance . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | While Franco 's energies were focused on the military progress of the war , he devoted little attention to its political aspects . |
| 14 | Within three overs Gooch had his century , his first against Pakistan , 17th in all , ninth in his 27 Tests as England captain , and for once he bore little resemblance to lonely General Gordon , whose last stand is immortalised by George Joy in Leeds Art Gallery . |
| 15 | He bore little resemblance to the photograph in the newspaper , with wide hamster-like cheeks and a narrow chin masked by his spade beard . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In his opinion , he received little attention from his wife : ‘ She 's completely wrapped up in the children . |
| 18 | Much of this he was to achieve , though he received little thanks for it from the Parisians who , in large part , remained hostile to the regime . |
| 19 | As he told little aphorisms from Rumi or the anecdotes of Ferdowsi 's Shah Nama — the Mughal Emperors ' favourite storybook-his gentle voice soothed away the irritations of modern Delhi . |
| 20 | He walked across the floor and , although he caused little sound , the whole room vibrated with his weight . |
| 21 | At Cambridge he showed little aptitude for study and tended to be diverted by horse-racing and other forms of gambling . |
| 22 | He showed little interest in the CPRS , but was happy enough to keep it and sent Lord Rothschild a chirpy Prime Minister 's personal minute on 1 April 1974 which Rothschild reproduced in his Random Variables : |
| 23 | He showed little interest in Jewish law or customs . |
| 24 | The pope came nearest to a characteristic post-conciliar viewpoint over social justice ; here indeed his major encyclicals could be regarded as constituting a high-water mark in ‘ progressive ’ concern , even adopting elements of a Marxist analysis beyond any of his predecessors ; he was also , very moderately , ecumenical , though he showed little interest in the theological implications of an ecumenical agenda . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He played the first 11 well enough , but the putts refused to drop apart from at the eighth and 10th , where first he faced little chips . |
| 27 | He paid little attention to the service itself . |
| 28 | He paid little attention to his cabinet , taking most decisions by himself and keeping ministers in ignorance . |
| 29 | She wiped it hastily away ; Roman was n't hers to keep and , though he paid little attention to Dana , she was determined to have her own way , and Claudia knew that what Dana wanted she usually got . |
| 30 | It was a role to which he seemed well suited , for he displayed little originality of mind and almost no strong convictions — except in defence of the Church of England . |