Example sentences of "little of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also perhaps we should think a little of the monnaie . |
| 2 | With luck , we might have captured a little of the spit and spunk of the working class kids of Dublin 's Northside . |
| 3 | ( Sometimes a little of the pre-stall buffet can be felt but the glider levels out all right . ) |
| 4 | Before installing on a roof , peel back a little of the protective masking and remove the temporary tape . |
| 5 | Carpenter , predictably , finds the three essayists — Richard Humphreys , John Alexander and Peter Robinson — ‘ taking a rather solemn approach to the whole thing ’ ; whereas , he assures us , Pound 's exertions on behalf of these arts partook ‘ more than a little of the amiable joke ’ . |
| 6 | She remembered a little of the acrimony , of the mounting bitterness within the house , of their winter of discontent , which was so much part of and not part of the winter outside , and the miners ' strike . |
| 7 | Mall operators argue that the Sally Army must be banned , or the precedent would allow a flood of other charitable panhandlers to invade their territory , and solicit a little of the money which should by rights be the monopoly of the retailers . |
| 8 | Cream the yeast with the sugar and a little of the warm water . |
| 9 | My Japanese friends wonder at my passion , because he is not very well known and not very successful , though when he visited Paris with his fellow sumotori he was at once called ‘ the Japanese Alain Delon ’ — to my mind , an insult to my hero , but for a while that kind of adulation seemed to give him a little of the confidence he needed , and on his return to Japan he delighted me by winning an unusually high number of contests . |
| 10 | They ought to get to know each other , see a little of the place they are in , have time to shop for family souvenirs and sample the local food and culture . |
| 11 | To a boy who declares himself stuck about what colour to use , he says : ‘ Well , Sickert said that when in doubt put a little of the last colour into the next colour you use , and that gives harmony : it does n't work to use a colour in isolation — white and black are the two parents , red in isolation can appear like a wound in the picture — it 's like friendships , we all know the awful consequences if a new person joins a group and the friendships are n't mixed through , it 's the same with colours . ’ |
| 12 | I suppose I 'm sentimental , but I defy anyone not to enjoy a little of the trappings of soldiering . |
| 13 | It is evident from this that the contractors were responsible for many of the details and not a little of the basic design . |
| 14 | Kicking down the foot-rest , he dismounted and stretched a little of the stiffness out of his shoulders . |
| 15 | Sadly though , when the peace came it was not so glorious , and the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 gave the Italians little of the territory they had been told to expect in whispered conversation in secret corridors while the war was in progress . |
| 16 | Although close to the Piazza del Duomo and its hubbub of city life , and surrounded by cars , the Piazza Mercanti manages to preserve a little of the quiet that must occasionally have existed in Medieval , pre-car , times . |
| 17 | George found that his position enabled him to divert a little of the firm 's money into his own pocket . |
| 18 | He knows a little of the history of this region , having done a prize-winning project on it at school . |
| 19 | We played and sang together , and read aloud a little of the Faerie Queene . |
| 20 | Miss You and the haunting Leisure and the particular highlights while Wanting reminded me a little of the Beatles Helter Skelter ( though I do n't remember it first time round , of course ) with its screaming guitars and music style . |
| 21 | Cash 's workers did not have to go out to the sound of the factory bell or whistle , but simply went upstairs from home to workshop , and thus kept a little of the independence they prized . |
| 22 | I spread a little of the peculiar fat on a piece of bread and put it into my mouth . |
| 23 | Taste a little of the mixture before you feed it to the fish . |
| 24 | She was small , neatly dressed in black , and rather surprisingly jewelled ; her greying corn-coloured hair reminded me a little of the ‘ blond head ’ in the Acropolis Museum in Athens . |
| 25 | His father , Isaac , a gentleman with more than a little of the rogue about him , was in Jamaica during the closing years of the 18th century , taking refuge there , it would seem , after a bankruptcy of 1779 . |
| 26 | ‘ I know a little of the law myself . |
| 27 | Place all the ingredients , saving a little of the parsley for garnish , and two-thirds of the stock , into a large saucepan . |
| 28 | Pour a little of the vinaigrette in each of six ramekins and serve with the cooled artichokes on a large plate . |
| 29 | Do n't forget to send a little of the yarn with the garment , in case of accidents , plus a spare button when they are used . |
| 30 | On their first night in the monastery , with a silver crescent faint in the sky , Hawk gave her a gnarled root , and told her to smear a little of the juice of it onto her tongue before sleep . |