Example sentences of "most [prep] [pron] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 By the time students reach the stage of taking their final examinations , most of them know their subject pretty well .
2 Most of them earn their bread and butter from market research , and political polling is the decorative jam on top .
3 I 've tried loads of different mousses but most of them irritate my skin .
4 The Argentines are still ethnically the same , the population still predominantly Italian , most of them havin' their roots in the south of Italy and in Sicily .
5 After all , most of them take their lead from our very own Golf .
6 If most of them accepted her terms , then she might just survive .
7 Nor had Polish nobles suffered unduly from the disappearance of Polish schools , for most of them received their education at home .
8 We usually pick , most of them keep their religion to themselves do n't they for me I would n't know .
9 Bearing in mind that they 're only six and seven in my class , er , and then talking erm , about how they travelled in cars , and and how many of them had ridden in the front seat , er , and most of them put their hands up , and I mean , the recommendation is that if you 're under twelve years of age , you should never ride in the front seat , and so on and so forth .
10 Most of them mix their part time police duties with a full day 's work .
11 At least from the point of with Labour at least they most of them send their kids through the state system so they 've got a little more idea of what they 're talking about .
12 ‘ I went to several used car dealers and found that the way most of them described their cars was a far cry from the actual condition they were in , ’ he recalls .
13 Most of them retained their medieval walls and intricate street patterns and they often served as ecclesiastical or secular centres of administration , but their major role was to act as retail , handicraft and distribution points for wide hinterlands .
14 Most of them abandoned their former preoccupations and devoted themselves instead to less controversial types of literary study , such as text exegesis ( Eikhenbaum and Boris Tomashevsky ) .
15 Most of them lost their families in the concentration camps .
16 Most of them placed their beach-bags on a picnic table or on the ground next to the shower .
17 On payday , at the end of the week , most of them refused their wages and John had to be called to the site to intervene .
18 Most of them find their way back to garden centres to be re-sold .
19 Many men escape this , for most of them predecease their wives , but the majority of women have to face the crushing blow of widowhood .
20 My Department received more than 800 representations in response to the consultation paper , ’ A New Tax for Local Government ’ , most of which welcomed its principles .
21 Most of us hurt our faces and our legs .
22 Initially at least , most of us find our thinking about Japan grounded in the differences we perceive between our own society and Asia 's New Giant .
23 Most of us spend our lives believing that the best marriages are those rare unions where two hearts really do beat as one .
24 But in the real world , where most of us enjoy our horses and look on them as part of the family , pony power can really score .
25 It 's definitely a blues record , and most of it features my own compositions .
26 It was much warmer than I thought and I had n't practised taking a drink while running , so most of it missed my mouth .
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