Example sentences of "[adv prt] with little " in BNC.

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1 Chesarynth hung back , not wanting him behind her , but he ushered her in with little shooing motions of his manicured hands and she had no choice .
2 Either way Norman Lamont is hemmed in with little scope for escape .
3 By contrast , his present legislation is expected to sail through with little more than some scattered shots from the Parti Québécois .
4 This was in many cases brief and some departmental reports were skipped through with little comment being made .
5 Bonanza Boy finished a remote eighth in the race and is 10lb worse off with Little Polveir but it is unwise to judge him on that performance which came at the end of a long season after some punishing contests .
6 But for the vast majority in Northern Ireland life goes on with little inconvenience from the depredations of the IRA .
7 But Mark 3 stock in its conventional form has been involved in accidents , and has been found to stand up with little crushing and buckling in potentially horrific situations where in older stock casualties might have been high .
8 Born in 1909 in New York City to parents who were members of the Ethical Society , he went to a school run by the Society where , under distinguished teachers , he ended up with little knowledge of even how to write correctly .
9 And , in the end , unless we challenge our assumptions , we may end up with little more than a large collection of inwardlooking occupational ethnographies between which the connections still remained to be demonstrated .
10 Toughening their endurance by frequent climbs to nearly 3,000 feet ( 900m ) up the crags of Goat Fell on Arran they saw , when it was not raining — a rare occasion in west Scotland — Lieutenant Roger Courtney at sea , training his canoeists around the island 's choppy waters where a short sharp sea comes up with little warning .
11 She had made her mind up with little thought .
12 The third sister , Mrs. Price has made an imprudent marriage as she has allowed her feeling to overtake her judgement and finally ends up with little money and too many children .
13 and a large reform had been carried out with little trouble .
14 Here was another person who knew her father better than she did , a person who was pointing it out with little subtlety .
15 But this scheme very quickly petered out with little result .
16 Cabbies have been known to overcharge , to threaten passengers and to hurl their luggage around with little concern as to where it lands .
17 Referee Ron Challis watched helpless as the players pushed the ball around with little or no challenge to the man in possession . ’
18 At one extreme ( for instance , when grass-letting ) you can get by with little more than the dwelling house : at the other ( on an intensively-run livestock farm ) special buildings are essential .
19 People occurred along the way and some would be talked to , questioned , while some were passed by with little more than a cursory glance .
20 Yet this epidemic of self-inflicted slaughter seems to pass us by with little front page news in the national Press .
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