Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] little [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've always been intrigued by the Catholic church , by all the colours and the candles , but I know so little about it … when we studied existentialism in high school , I felt that that was exactly right , but now I just do n't know … |
| 2 | It would not be right for me to say that he was wrongly ennobled , because I know too little about him to be able to detect whatever surprising quality it was that commended itself to Harold Wilson for admission to the House of Lords . |
| 3 | ‘ I know too little of you , yet I know too much . |
| 4 | I know as little of love as I do of painting , he thought . |
| 5 | I know very little about gardening , but I am keen to learn more , as I develop my garden . |
| 6 | If I know very little about the firm or the people in it , then , to reduce my uncertainty , I will invent my own snapshots of what to expect . |
| 7 | ‘ I know very little about her , although she worked for him in the war too . |
| 8 | ‘ On the contrary , I know very little about you at all , Gina Price . |
| 9 | And again , long moments later , he added the qualification : ‘ Though I want to tell you one thing — I know very little about them . ’ |
| 10 | Eh , I , I do n't know , it 's quite large , I found it 's quite big as one , I do n't know , , I know very little of . |
| 11 | I remember very little of the four years spent in Windsor except the arrival of a small suit sent by one of the powerful aunts for my fourth birthday . |
| 12 | I remember very little of the coronation — only two faces . |
| 13 | I remember very little of my grandfather , sir . ’ |
| 14 | I was only there a few weeks and was so bored and anxious to be gone that I remember very little about the place . |
| 15 | I remember very little from those times . |
| 16 | Perhaps the strange lack of concern in ‘ A ’ Squadron 's diary and reports , and the fact that I heard so little from the regiment subsequently , may reflect a suspicion ( or knowledge ) on their part . |
| 17 | After all , I had no real claim upon your attention , and I knew I meant so little to you I could be dropped at any moment without a second thought . |
| 18 | I ask very little of you , Opal … . ’ |
| 19 | Had he not said on more than one occasion , his voice weary with self-righteousness , ‘ I ask so little from you Opal … . ’ |
| 20 | and erm there was no final erm sort of er judgment to be had so erm then we had to call meetings of this little Sub Committee who finally made up their minds and I remember typing reports , quite long reports , about erm Rhode Island Reds er crossed with Light Sussex and Light Sussex crossed with er Brown and erm I , I knew precious little about poultry at that time . |
| 21 | I knew very little about boats , and had hated what little experience of sailing I had had , but it seemed unlikely that any boat would shut down its engine until it was safely round into the bay , or even then . |
| 22 | I knew very little about school , but at least it would be a change , the start of a new life . |
| 23 | At that time I knew very little about Montaigne : but Eliot had come to him through Shakespeare and the influences upon Shakespeare ( who must have read the Apologie de Raymond Sebond ) ; and , as he said in his essay on Pascal , Montaigne 's outlook is the only credible alternative to that of belief . |
| 24 | ‘ I knew very little about Irish League football when I came back from Nottingham Forest , except that Linfield and Glentoran were the top two clubs . |
| 25 | For example , when I began researching into social aspects of book reading I knew very little at all about publishing or bookselling and my experience of libraries was mainly limited to being a user of them . |
| 26 | In my early days , I had merely assumed , since I knew so little of industry , that I was employed to achieve certain ends . |
| 27 | I knew so little about who had held them and how they had got out , it seemed as if they had come from a different world , a different time . |
| 28 | But it had all happened so quickly — and I knew so little about you — except that I 'd fallen in love with you . ’ |
| 29 | Somehow we then got on to the theme of French poetry , and Eliot expressed surprise at one of Herbert Read 's recent pronouncements on Laforgue and another nineteenth-century poet I can not recall and about whom at the time I knew too little to be able to arrive at an opinion . |
| 30 | ‘ I saw very little of him , in the early years . |