Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] 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 | I 'm sorry , but I have little sympathy for him . |
| 4 | The betting is that Vorster and Kaunda will keep up their pressures , and that another round of the boxing-match will come before long ; but I see little hope there . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But she saw little hope in that notion . |
| 7 | But she took little heed of her surroundings ; all her attention was focused on the man himself . |
| 8 | They drank wine , consulted the menu , ordered , but she took little notice of what she was eating , trying to calm the turmoil within her . |
| 9 | You were asleep , so we did n't wake you ; but we took little Billy to see . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | Such an explanation of discontent may perhaps apply to educated middle-class housewives , but we find little evidence of status frustrations among working-class wives . |
| 12 | But we have little understanding of why this should be . |
| 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 | For example , Ambrose , Harper and Pemberton 's ( 1983 ) small study of men after divorce found that just over half their sample relied on parents and/or siblings for support , but they give little detail about the type of support offered and it may well have been practical as much as emotional . |
| 19 | Thus at present they have a gene that controls limb development , but they have little idea what its role is . |
| 20 | This means that she can throw out the eggs of her nest mates , but they have little chance to throw out hers . |
| 21 | The provisions of the Act are complex , but they have little effect on media freedom . |
| 22 | Actives to be sure , serve God with their toil and outward activity , but they spend little time in inner quiet . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But he had little confidence of backing from a UK government which seemed to have no idea about the fishing industry . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |