Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] most " in BNC.
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| 1 | T frankly , yes it did , but I mean you were reading it pretty well correctly the way they read I mean most of us read things I know I do myself , one reads things quicker than perhaps some would if we were reading them on a radio or something . |
| 2 | He banged it into us very successfully , but singing Mozart 's Requiem 30 years later I found I knew most of it by heart . |
| 3 | In my spare bedroom , which was the size of a ballroom , I had installed a clever piece of apparatus which , despite its compact size , allowed me to exercise most of the essential muscles . |
| 4 | The family moved to London in 1897 , and Rosenberg was educated at the Baker Street Board School in Stepney , where his natural gift for both drawing and writing so impressed the headmaster that he allowed him to spend most of his time on them . |
| 5 | With nothing else to read , it seemed to have the edge on the income tax manuals ( though non-believers would say only just ) , so you can imagine how bad I felt when I opened it to find most of the pages had been razored to provide a nest for a small brown envelope . |
| 6 | I think one of the most valuable points that emerged from the Felixstowe experience , as far as I was concerned anyway was the fact that with all those people there when we heard their views , erm , it was quite apparent that it was n't the case of local people opposing what the County Council traffic people propose to do , many there were many different and varying interests there and , and we , we could , we can then basically come to a conclusion which satisfied , satisfied I hope most of them , but , we , we , at that meeting among the local people some supporters with some of our road safety and some were very much against them , others were neutral , but it was n't just a question of erm a , a united opposition of what we proposed to do er , and this was very valuable . |
| 7 | He was perpetually in the grip of some obscure , niggling , unexplained bitterness , which led him to repudiate most of the overtures which Clara would from time to time make towards him ; she made these attempts because she was less frightened of him than she was of her mother , and she did on one or two occasions — the purchase of a bicycle , permission to go to the cinema — manage to enlist his sympathies . |
| 8 | As Burton loved to live in opposition — it made him feel most alive and it could be argued that he lived in serious opposition to his own body for long stretches of his life — it is interesting to speculate whether the homosexual network gave yet another spin to his heterosexuality . |
| 9 | Minton , perceiving Cornish 's shyness , made him answer most of the questions and listened attentively to his replies , thereby forcing Cornish through the shyness barrier , an experience he ever afterwards felt stood him in good stead . |
| 10 | With whom did I feel most open and confident about expressing myself in words ? |
| 11 | And the way he did what he just did I find most discouraging . ’ |
| 12 | Which did you succeed most with and which did you fail badly with ? |
| 13 | What subjects did you enjoy most ? |
| 14 | Where where did you learn most of your , your skills as a locksmith ? |
| 15 | Did she say most of them would come down ? |
| 16 | When US president Abraham Lincoln 's father sold his farm , what did he take most of his payment in ? |
| 17 | We just left it blank most of the time , because The Bar was always changing its name . |
| 18 | After the breakdown of talks in London he said he expected most of the cuts to fall on Merseyside 's Halewood plant . |
| 19 | He said he expected most of the cuts to fall on Merseyside 's Halewood plant . |
| 20 | But Maj Trotter said he knew most of the walkers using his land , adding that most preferred the more circuitous route alongside a beck . |
| 21 | As Forbes Magazine testified they include most of the Fortune 500 U.S. companies , including MOBIL , GENERAL MOTORS , FORD , IBM , GENERAL ELECTRIC , ARCO , SHELL , ITT , PHILLIPS PETROLEUM , — 9 out of the nations 15 largest companies . |