Sentence examples for little favours from inspiring English sources

He was a great storyteller, and to reward me for the little favours I did for him he would re-tell potted versions of the wonderful adventure novels he had read as a boy, such as Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories or White Fang and Call of the Wild and The 39 Steps.

But it has won little favour among the 31,500 GPs who must make it work.

Meanwhile, his sensational coverage of other sensitive topics, such as transgenderism, curried little favour with his more liberal audience members.

I Heart Huckabees found little favour with the American public, especially in the "red" states that voted for George Bush.

Brit horror flick Elfie Hopkins has found little favour but it does have one thing going for it.

The latter's intransigent zealotry found little favour with Caesar Bardas, Michael's uncle, who had seized power from the empress regent in 856.

And whereas Mr Blair was generally regarded as a good European, at least by British standards, Mr Brown enjoys little favour in the EU.

And despite its ultramontanism, the paper also found little favour in Rome, for Pope Gregory XVI had no wish to assume the revolutionary role it advocated for him.

He found little favour with Napoleon, but with the restoration of the French monarchy in 1816 he became music director of the royal chapel of Louis XVIII.

Despite finding little favour with the art establishment, Tretchikoff's work was frequently displayed over the next three decades, typically at department stores rather than dedicated art galleries.

There will still be cuts to welfare spending pencilled into budgets until 2020 and hard-pressed councils can expect little favour from chancellor Philip Hammond.