Example sentences of "most [prep] them [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | 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 ? ) |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There are only a few thousand maleos left , most of them in the northern parts of the island . |
| 6 | Between 1914 and 1918 almost 900,000 British Empire soldiers had died in the trenches , most of them from the working class . |
| 7 | Nor did he for any of the other hopeful interviewees , most of them from the national papers . |