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 . |