Example sentences of "most [prep] them [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over one hundred Quakers died in prison in the 1680s , most of them during the harsh winter of 1683 – 4 , and at least 450 Quakers appear to have died for their sufferings during the Restoration period . |
| 2 | Seventy boys and girls from U6 to U14 played rugby — most of them for the first time ever . |
| 3 | These shepherds live wild , most of them on the same mountain just outside Florence , in abandoned houses which often have no light or running water . |
| 4 | And if they go a goal ahead in Turkey , the home-team are going to kick hell out of them and hopefully side-line most of them until the New Year ( and god knows what the crowd will do — have you ever seen Midnight Express ? ) |
| 5 | Before 1290 two successive chief justices of the King 's Bench were clerics , but the next two — from 1290 to 1307 — were laymen ; out of the fifteen judges of that court during Edward 's reign , eight were laymen , most of them in the later years . |
| 6 | An increasing number of factories and other enterprises were being constructed in foreign countries : by 1989 over 3,500 had been built , most of them in the socialist world but nearly 900 in developing countries . |
| 7 | Préval , the deposed Prime Minister ( who like the rest of the former Cabinet was in hiding — most of them in the French embassy ) issued leaflets calling for non-violent civil disobedience campaigns , as did Aristide in radio broadcasts beamed from neighbouring Dominican Republic . |
| 8 | There are only a few thousand maleos left , most of them in the northern parts of the island . |
| 9 | Between 1914 and 1918 almost 900,000 British Empire soldiers had died in the trenches , most of them from the working class . |
| 10 | Richards and King put on 139 for the fifth wicket in just seventy-seven minutes , King annihilating the bowlers to the tune of three sixes and ten fours in his 86 , most of them from the three part-time bowlers who conceded , by coincidence , 86 between them . |
| 11 | Nor did he for any of the other hopeful interviewees , most of them from the national papers . |