Example sentences of "[vb pp] most [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Existing policies keep most people occupied most of the time . |
| 2 | This is his sixteenth over , two for seventeen with nine maidens so far , bowling from the far end , the nursery end with a cluster of fielders , you 've got a silly point and a short leg and a slip and he 's got er , at the moment four men on the leg side as he 's had most of the time and five on the off , and now a slight adjustment , we 're gon na have an extra one around the batsman . |
| 3 | Possibly because everything was so new and different that the impressions could not be fully absorbed , and also perhaps because I was tired most of the time . |
| 4 | I had a vague impression of their father but he had spent most of the time with his head in his hands . |
| 5 | She had spent most of the time upstairs trying to look more than OK , and had despised herself all the while for even trying . |
| 6 | On the other side of the coin , we would expect that those features of the Creole which ( a ) are salient and ( b ) do not present the speaker with any special difficulties of the sort involved in /r/-insertion , will be successfully imitated most of the time . |
| 7 | Of course I failed on all counts and so I was ignored most of the time — passed over . |
| 8 | During infancy children tend to be kept most of the time in the small , dark interior of their hut , where they are rarely allowed to crawl on the floor , rarely spoken to or played with ( though always kept near the mother ) , and where few objects for play are available . |
| 9 | My eyes were shut most of the time now as I blundered round the park and when I opened them a red mist swirled . |
| 10 | That 's not a bridge that 's marked on the map , it 's a causeway that 's covered most of the time . |