Example sentences of "[pers pn] most [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the little amulet which told them most about the girl . |
| 2 | America and Germany are countries which are particularly good at recruiting and keeping in regular contact with their supporters , which makes it far easier to galvanise them when you need them most in the run-up to an election . |
| 3 | ‘ The breaches that concern me most at the moment are off the ball incidents , dangerously high tackles and illegal use of the elbow , ’ he added . |
| 4 | I think what attracted me most about the country round was its Englishness , meadows deep in grass and wild flowers , and willows wherever there was water . |
| 5 | The thing that struck me most about the room was its symmetry . |
| 6 | One of the things that bothered me most in the villages of the Delta was the treatment given to women in childbirth . |
| 7 | But what really seems to hurt and rankle you most at the moment is the behaviour and attitude of a friend or close companion — and no doubt the Full Moon in Aries on the 14th will prove challenging and even emotionally upsetting . |
| 8 | A cable car will take you most of the way . |
| 9 | I reckon it would 've taken you most of the night . ’ |
| 10 | Of the literati in their thrall , Budd Schulberg emerged as the writer who told you most about the bouts . |
| 11 | We remember him most as the best diver ever to grace the Gorbals swimming pond . |
| 12 | Was there a part of his career that had helped him most in the development of My Kinda Town ? |
| 13 | When Pound revised and expanded this to make The ABC of Reading ( the title is still a misnomer ) , he winkled out of it most of the anti-Englishness that had been present in the first version , when Pound was still smarting from what he took to be England 's rejection of him eight years before , in 1920 . |
| 14 | In much the same way , nearly all creature comforts must be sacrificed for performance — a condition which is worth it most of the time , but very occasionally not . |
| 15 | It 's possible that Fedorov may have exceeded his authority : I forgot to mention that he 's a madman , though he succeeds in disguising it most of the time . |
| 16 | She was obviously very unhappy and managed to conceal it most of the time . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ The thing about McGahern is that although 6 out of 8 Irish critics were against it most of the foreign reviewers , including The Observer and Guardian and New York Times , gave it glowing reviews . |
| 18 | Of course , she gets away with it most of the time because she 's so pretty . |
| 19 | We all know the great fiction that the Lab is independent of the police and I 'm happy to go along with it most of the time . |
| 20 | I get on with it most of the afternoon , and I 've still got a stack of unopened buff envelopes in my hand as I head doggedly back up the little twisting staircase and sit down on my hard box seat to get on with it again up here , a task which now looks likely to keep me here after everyone else has gone home . |
| 21 | The columnist Peter Simple tells us most about the British , each Sunday in this newspaper . |
| 22 | For these deaths we tried to identify and then interview the people who could tell us most about the last twelve months of the lives of the people who died . |