Example sentences of "she [verb] little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She made little money from journalism , having criticized too many auras for her own good . |
| 2 | She made little dresses and pinafores for Lily and Corrie , but Corrie 's were decorated with ribbons and lace . |
| 3 | She got little ones . |
| 4 | They ate well , but she got little thanks for it from the mistress of the hut . |
| 5 | In the latter she wasted little space on such theoretical concerns as the position of monarchy in modern society , concentrating instead on the more trivial aspects of palace life . |
| 6 | She wasted little time in starting to eat , her quick brain turning over alternative scenarios as she debated whether to show herself to the Carlisle Flint team , or disappear quietly to her room . |
| 7 | She built little mounds of nuts , raisins and mandarins . |
| 8 | Now the authorities say she has little chance of getting them back . |
| 9 | In contrast to the immediate post-war generation of Conservative leaders , Churchill , Eden , Butler , and Macmillan , she has little sense of guilt ( ‘ bourgeois guilt ’ was the phrase she used in New York to the Institute of Economic Studies on 15 September 1975 ) for the unemployment of the 1930s . |
| 10 | She has little patience with any feminist arguments against such pin-ups . |
| 11 | Except for Sting and George Michael ( 'wonderful voice , writes great songs ' ) , she has little time for most modern pop . |
| 12 | Particularly , she has little time for a group called Yello , the Swiss electro-band with whom she collaborated on a single last year , much in the way Liza Minelli and the Pet Shop Boys or Gene Pitney and Marc Almond have . |
| 13 | Examples of this reciprocal effect lie in the man who is engrossed in his work to the detriment of his married life or the woman who is so wrapped up in her children that she has little time for her husband . |
| 14 | She has little interest in achieving consensus . |
| 15 | She used little make-up , but the little was important . |
| 16 | She wears little make-up for work and says : ‘ It goes back to the time when I started in the job . |
| 17 | She paid little attention when the door opened , and two more customers came in . |
| 18 | Although she showed little interest in my academic life — her energies were spent in the pursuit of foxes and Guards officers — she was always brimful of common sense on every subject under the sun , not to mention having constant contact with a string of eligible young men who seemed to arrive in a never-ending convoy at the front door of 97 Chelsea Terrace . |
| 19 | She showed little understanding . |
| 20 | She takes little exercise , does not even walk much , and prefers to use the car or public transport . |
| 21 | the colours and everything and the order you want them , but the little figures erm , she buys them and she just paints them , and that 's how she could make er the ones for Shirley er for me , erm she gets little soldiers and she can paint them in the camouflage dress |
| 22 | She examined little boys as if they were made of much sterner stuff than mere flesh and bone . |
| 23 | While she enjoys all outdoor sporting activities , she finds little time due to work and IBOA interests . |
| 24 | She took little interest in how she dressed . |
| 25 | In the dark , she took little steps , her hands out before her . |
| 26 | She took little account of time , and was hardly even aware that she had been placed in Lady Merchiston 's old bedchamber . |
| 27 | She took little notice until it reappeared on her own side , and drew up alongside her . |
| 28 | They drank wine , consulted the menu , ordered , but she took little notice of what she was eating , trying to calm the turmoil within her . |
| 29 | Meanwhile at least one offspring of the NPA flourishes — the ‘ English Through Activity ’ programme in Swaziland , where I found similar activity and enthusiasm in schools , talked to a committed supervisor who saw her role entirely as getting her materials — including issues of English Ladybird books — to rural schools as efficiently as possible and of encouraging ‘ active learning ’ , ( but of what and why she took little heed ) . |
| 30 | But she took little heed of her surroundings ; all her attention was focused on the man himself . |