Sentence examples for stop being precious from inspiring English sources

It doesn't take long until you are obliged to stop being precious about your vehicle and surrender to the inevitable punctures, scrapes and scratches and the hundreds of kilometres of unknown terrain that stretch before you.

You have to have what is best for the England team and, for that to happen, we need people to stop being precious.

"Every point is precious.

Mond meanwhile, though is film is far from mainstream, stops short of being precious with his first-person style.

GC: Stop being so precious with your music.

Your story is precious.

Dear James Stop being so blooming precious.

"Stop being so blooming precious," he wrote.

And I had no closer friend than myself so I had to stop being so damned precious about it.

The forebears of these men and women have been raising and cutting cane here for four centuries, back to slave days, and for nearly all of that time, the sentiment of that office motto would have looked absurd: for the small sugar producers of Jamaica, downpours of one kind or another have never stopped, and there has been precious little time for ark-building.

"He is precious cargo".