Example sentences of "a [adv] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he does , he lives in the churchyard , and he has done on and off , as you say , for a few years , and he 's been a bit of a most of the time he 's perfectly all right because he keeps himself to himself . |
| 2 | Also perhaps we should think a little of the monnaie . |
| 3 | With luck , we might have captured a little of the spit and spunk of the working class kids of Dublin 's Northside . |
| 4 | ( Sometimes a little of the pre-stall buffet can be felt but the glider levels out all right . ) |
| 5 | Before installing on a roof , peel back a little of the protective masking and remove the temporary tape . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Cream the yeast with the sugar and a little of the warm water . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | I suppose I 'm sentimental , but I defy anyone not to enjoy a little of the trappings of soldiering . |
| 14 | It is evident from this that the contractors were responsible for many of the details and not a little of the basic design . |
| 15 | Kicking down the foot-rest , he dismounted and stretched a little of the stiffness out of his shoulders . |
| 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 . |