Sentence examples for to get precious from inspiring English sources

It would not usually occur to me to get precious about what wine you drink with this type of food.

Gorillaz are going to get precious little of this from their rider, which makes vitamin C supplements a relevant and healthy choice.

"My whole career within the museum sector has been based on trying to get precious objects out of the display cases and onto the table to show how they were used".

Not only will America need to get precious supplies to Afghanistan, mainly via the Pakistani port of Karachi, for years to come, but it is wary of isolating or destabilising a country with such a fast-growing nuclear arsenal.

Jane Austen is a writer about whom pundits of all ages and sexes tend to get precious and proprietorial in a way they don't about, say, Charlotte Brontë or George Eliot.

Earnings are going to get precious close to that $8 per share mark by the time this cycle ends, compared with something near $4 this year.

Mary begs Ms. Weiss to help her get Precious back, but a shaken Ms. Weiss silently brushes past Mary, refusing to help her because of the extent to which Precious was abused.

They could also get precious manure to fertilise the fields.

Instead they get precious extra quality time to live their lives.

They get precious little credit.

"With the Kookaburra ball with its flat seam, you get precious little seam movement.