Example sentences of "most [prep] [pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | See most of them 'll come on video anyway . |
| 2 | Most of them would go for four or five months before any change of clothing reached them , not perhaps such a hardship as , without a change of clothes , Bernard Callinan found his irritating prickly-heat rash disappeared . |
| 3 | ‘ Eventually , just from listening to albums you could tell what tunings they were using , because a lot of them were n't using a regular tuning , most of them would tune to a particular chord . |
| 4 | ‘ I can not see how they are going to pay all of us from membership dues , ’ an embittered party bureaucrat said at headquarters , adding that most of them would have to be given six months ' notice . |
| 5 | We may have some desire to be appreciated for our physical appearance , but most of us would hope to be desired for what we are down inside . |
| 6 | While most of us would admit to having hurt another person deliberately , we recoil in horror from the thought of subjecting someone to extreme pain for impersonal reasons . |
| 7 | ( Most of us would kill for hair like that , Belinda ! ) |
| 8 | Figure 3.1 shows that if we go to bed at the ‘ normal ’ time we sleep about eight hours , a result that most of us would accept as part of our daily experience . |
| 9 | Most of us would agree with any condemnation of such conduct . |
| 10 | However , to be serious , while flexitime , certainly in the way it is put forward , is what most of us would describe as a ‘ complete nonsense ’ for area staff , it does embody a legitimate concern . |
| 11 | After all , if the self is felt to be nothing , any strategy adopted to enhance or promote it , desperate though it may be , is a step towards what most of us would consider to be health , and an action necessary for survival . |
| 12 | But until preventive medicine becomes cheaper and more readily available , most of us must rely on our own common sense and on the reliable information which is available in order to keep ourselves running smoothly . |
| 13 | After a few months of doing this several times each day and night , most of us could plot at the same speed as the information came in on the teleprinter . |
| 14 | Although most of us can recognize without difficulty the importance that the emotions play in our lives , the subject has been given little systematic attention by the disciplines most concerned with furthering understanding of human behaviour . |
| 15 | Up to the age of 40 to 50 , most of us can see at a distance and read close to without any difficulty . |
| 16 | If it is left completely at the level of the unconscious , most of us will muddle through its manifestations . |
| 17 | Next door , it 's old toys they 're after , the sort of thing most of us will remember from the toy cupboard of old . |
| 18 | He understood money , ’ said Gerald with respect , ‘ and , having made one mistake , determined that most of it would die with him . ’ |
| 19 | Yes , that 's right , I mean it 's that most of you , most of you can , most of you can arrive at work in the morning and if somebody says what the traffic 's like you would n't know , because you do n't know how you got there . |
| 20 | Most of you will score between 21–26 . |