Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb past] [verb] most " in BNC.
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| 1 | The land they tilled and the animals they raised absorbed most of their working hours . |
| 2 | After three months he had written most of this work and was well enough to return to his beloved Kidderminster . |
| 3 | These were the groups which had suffered most from the dislocations of the war , and an element of class antagonism can perhaps be detected in their hatred of wealthy Whig financiers and rich local Dissenters ( especially the Presbyterians ) . |
| 4 | During the second half of the sixteenth century , hundreds of medieval sculptures and carved images of saints were destroyed or removed , the colourful wall-paintings which had decorated most churches were whitewashed , stained glass was shattered or taken away , and the rood lofts which had held up the great crucifixes and figures of the Virgin Mary and St John were pulled down . |
| 5 | By the frequency of his visits he came to know most of the artists and was fond of addressing them in a loud voice by their first names as they came out of the studio . |
| 6 | In December 1991 , the Danish art magazine Pist Protta published a list of the one hundred Danish artists who had earned most money in 1990 . |
| 7 | She had been taken as a child from a wild jungle world of carnivores , flesh-sucking plants , and hunter-warriors who had lost most of the arts of civilization save for those of cunning , combat and survival . |
| 8 | Finally the workers who had suffered most were in the public sector , where incomes policy had held wage growth well below that of elsewhere . |
| 9 | Then , to increase her income and her reputation , she plunged into business enterprises for which she was ill-equipped and inexperienced ; in three or four years she had lost most of her money and people refused to work for her , ‘ it was advised about the town … that neither man nor beast would serve the said creature ’ . |
| 10 | But , of course , overlaying and underlying this trans-parency were the old tribal and family feuds and enmities which had put most of the followings into the rival camps in the first place . |
| 11 | She had instructed the maids not to disturb her for she valued her privacy and having staff constantly on hand was one of the things she had found most difficult to become accustomed to . |
| 12 | Where were all the resolutions she had spent most of the night making ? |