Example sentences of "most [prep] them [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over one hundred Quakers died in prison in the 1680s , most of them during the harsh winter of 1683 – 4 , and at least 450 Quakers appear to have died for their sufferings during the Restoration period . |
| 2 | Seventy boys and girls from U6 to U14 played rugby — most of them for the first time ever . |
| 3 | These shepherds live wild , most of them on the same mountain just outside Florence , in abandoned houses which often have no light or running water . |
| 4 | Many spectators had squatted on the dunes surrounding the 6th , most of them on the Maiden itself . |
| 5 | I remember writing most of them with the assistance of liberal quantities of dope . |
| 6 | And if they go a goal ahead in Turkey , the home-team are going to kick hell out of them and hopefully side-line most of them until the New Year ( and god knows what the crowd will do — have you ever seen Midnight Express ? ) |
| 7 | The story begins in early 1981 with the deaths of 46 child patients , most of them in the hospital 's paediatric cardiac wards . |
| 8 | Times must still have been hard down Whittox Lane , though nearly all its inhabitants seem to have been employed in some way or another — most of them in the clothing trade , alongside Mr. Middleditch , the Badcox Lane Baptist minister , and Charles Dyer , 23 , a coal miner . |
| 9 | Within months of the outbreak of war a group of young men , most of them in the ILP , had established the No-Conscription Fellowship ( NCF ) . |
| 10 | There are only a few thousand maleos left , most of them in the northern parts of the island . |
| 11 | Yeah but the Open University ones cover all of the material and they 're what I actually wrote the lectures from erm but there 's six of them which is why the o the only advantage of the other one is that it 's one not six and so but I mean the material is all covered text of which there are three copies of most of them in the library one on short loan and one on sort of a general loan so you |
| 12 | Before 1290 two successive chief justices of the King 's Bench were clerics , but the next two — from 1290 to 1307 — were laymen ; out of the fifteen judges of that court during Edward 's reign , eight were laymen , most of them in the later years . |
| 13 | 4 Make a rough diagram of your design and determine whether it is appropriate to the size of the site , e.g. a herb border on the grand scale will not be successful in an area 3 x 3 metres ( 10 x 10 ft ) ; in other words the proportions of the design should be such that there is room to make the most of them in the area concerned . |
| 14 | An increasing number of factories and other enterprises were being constructed in foreign countries : by 1989 over 3,500 had been built , most of them in the socialist world but nearly 900 in developing countries . |
| 15 | Several successful interceptions were made by Venturous , Valiant and Vigilant , most of them in the Thames Estuary and Ramsgate area . |
| 16 | Préval , the deposed Prime Minister ( who like the rest of the former Cabinet was in hiding — most of them in the French embassy ) issued leaflets calling for non-violent civil disobedience campaigns , as did Aristide in radio broadcasts beamed from neighbouring Dominican Republic . |
| 17 | More than 5,000 people were believed to have been killed , most of them in the town of Ormoc , and 120,000 were left homeless , with thousands more still missing and presumed dead . |
| 18 | She started flicking through the messages , most of them in the handwriting of Mrs Whittaker , the secretary of the English department . |
| 19 | Richards and King put on 139 for the fifth wicket in just seventy-seven minutes , King annihilating the bowlers to the tune of three sixes and ten fours in his 86 , most of them from the three part-time bowlers who conceded , by coincidence , 86 between them . |
| 20 | Nor did he for any of the other hopeful interviewees , most of them from the national papers . |
| 21 | Between 1914 and 1918 almost 900,000 British Empire soldiers had died in the trenches , most of them from the working class . |