Preposition: of

• development: This is the first inkling of the development of the concept of the person and personality in the history of Western thought.

• rationale: While the rationale for its actions may be real, we must be aware that the hare itself has no inkling of that rationale.

• truth: This inkling of truth is a good thing to know.

• opening: It was the first surreal inkling of an opening between the invisible worlds.

• situation: I wonder how many have even an inkling of the situation as it appears to stand.

• fact: Menshevism, itself a branch of bourgeois thought, does not have and cannot have any inkling of these facts.

Preposition: that

• something: By now we had our first inkling that something might be amiss.

Converse of object

• have: We have an inkling of what Marx was on about.

• get: I've got a slight inkling for Man Utd.

• give: The Internet gives some inkling of what the media of the future will be like.

• show: She had no idea that Klimps could write, and he had never shown any inkling of possessing a conscience.

• call: He formed a writers ' group called the Inklings, which included Tolkien and his own brother Warren.

• provide: Charles Martin Smith provides a slight inkling of comic relief as accountant turned Untouchable Oscar Wallace.

Adjective modifier

• slight: I've got a slight inkling for Man Utd.

• first: The CE informed her that the first inkling had come about only in August.

• little: Most of his contacts had little inkling that anything was wrong.

• vague: You may by now be getting a vague inkling that I liked The Moon & Sixpence.

• faint: I sometimes wonder whether these bureaucratic quango types have even the faintest inkling what a " market " actually is.

• surreal: It was the first surreal inkling of an opening between the invisible worlds.