Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided I must go up to Addis Ababa and try to get permission to start again , but I had little hope of succeeding . |
| 2 | I did it willingly because I still loved his company so much , but I had little money . |
| 3 | A work ethos was established that was individualistic , acquisitive and incentive-oriented , but which had little sense of solidarity or mutuality that might supersede this narrowly-conceived achievement ethic . |
| 4 | She felt happier about Kathleen now that she knew that she had a champion in Ella , but she had little time to dwell on the O'Neills . |
| 5 | But she saw little hope in that notion . |
| 6 | But she took little heed of her surroundings ; all her attention was focused on the man himself . |
| 7 | They drank wine , consulted the menu , ordered , but she took little notice of what she was eating , trying to calm the turmoil within her . |
| 8 | You were asleep , so we did n't wake you ; but we took little Billy to see . |
| 9 | One common local belief about Belfast English is that upper-middle-class people tend to front-raise /a/ ( as in bat ) towards the conservative RP value : [ ae ] ( but we found little sign of this in any part of our research ) . |
| 10 | In the 1970s scheme after scheme was launched , but there seemed little sense of direction or coherence . |
| 11 | In 1984 , under Sadat 's successor Mubarak , the two countries again exchanged ambassadors , but there seemed little likelihood that Soviet-Egyptian relations would ever regain their former intimacy . |
| 12 | I was cold , tired and hungry , but there seemed little point in going to bed until the storm had gone through . |
| 13 | Proposals such as these aroused considerable debate in the 1930s ( particularly on the question of whether , for every job vacated by an older worker , a new one would be created for a younger person ) , but they made little headway with the National Government . |
| 14 | But they had little cushioning effect . |
| 15 | The soldiers grumbled on returning home to find their wives turned yellow by picric acid , but they had little redress . |
| 16 | They looked for abstract relationships between the different structures , but they had little incentive to ask what kind of circumstance might lead a species to change when exposed to a new environment . |
| 17 | Late nineteenth-century judicial reforms did streamline court procedure , but they had little effect on the way in which the administration of law and order was popularly perceived . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But he had little confidence of backing from a UK government which seemed to have no idea about the fishing industry . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He smashed the windscreen with one bullet and Adam felt a sliver of glass cut into his cheek , but he did little other damage . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | This was a return to the test of outrage , with all its faults , but it met little outrage in Standing Committee and fell only because of the dissolution of Parliament for the 1987 General Election . |
| 30 | 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 . |