Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] most of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of course die , but those who survive eventually lose most of the colour and are left speckled , rather than with the definite lines of colour you will find in shop tanks . |
| 2 | He grabbed it and held it before his face and in doing so spilled most of the powder all over the front of his fancy tweed jacket . |
| 3 | Labour has not only neutralised most of those policy areas which make it unpopular ; more importantly , it has virtually erased the opportunity for Tories to accuse Labour of being run by the ‘ loony left ’ . |
| 4 | After we 've made that hole in the top we 'll lift the fuselage high enough to drain most of the water from it . ’ |
| 5 | But The Soldier 's Tale naturally occupied most of John 's energies . |
| 6 | He spent a great deal of time inexpertly milking complaining cows , only to feed most of the milk to the pigs . |
| 7 | As the half-stifled bees crawled drunkenly across the stone and straw , they swiftly cut most of the heavy slabs of honeycomb off the sticks and laid them in the leather sacks . |
| 8 | The government prudently used most of its bonus to rebuild the foreign-exchange reserves ; it also restored the 10% cut made last year in public-sector salaries , and raised pensions by 5% . |
| 9 | He left most of his meal , and seemed uninterested in any of the conversation she attempted , answering in monosyllables most of the time . |
| 10 | The lapwings were followed up by some tufted duck on a reservoir — a frustrating snatched glimpse but enough to dispel most of his gloom . |
| 11 | Maguire 's remarkable exploits rightly grabbed most of the headlines , but Fitzgerald impressed as a horseman of the highest quality with 38 successes from limited opportunities . |
| 12 | They would long ago have vanished but for the fact that a powerful tide daily takes most of this pollution out to sea . |
| 13 | During 1991 and after 10 years of negotiations , the START treaty was signed , and in itself it is indeed only a start as it still leaves enormous stockpiles of delivery systems and nuclear warheads , enough to reduce most of our planet to a radioactive cinder heap . |
| 14 | This caused a bit of a chuckle from and his wife , as they apparently did most of their courting on a similar looking bench . |
| 15 | Pass through a sieve and simmer the juice gently to remove most of the water . |
| 16 | So do most of us , but the LETS group stresses that this devaluation is extremely destructive of the system , and caused the failure of an earlier scheme in Totnes . |
| 17 | They belong to the Orthodox branch of Christianity ; so do most of their northern neighbours . |
| 18 | To all intents and purposes it is legal — it may look ugly but so do most of the putters these days , and the design has obviously been passed by the Royal and Ancient Golf Club , which does exercise a very tight control over such matters . |
| 19 | I seem to get on with most of the teachers in the school , so do most of the other kids . |
| 20 | He still sees only a fraction of what the experts can see , but the pictures are definitely making sense now and so do most of the comments made on them . |
| 21 | So do most of the Altun . |
| 22 | I believe that there may be distinct advantages to the adoption of a single currency at some time in the future and so do most of the business men I know in my constituency and elsewhere . |
| 23 | According to one piece of research ( Managing Mothers , by Julia Brannen and Peter Moss ) working mothers not only do most of the household chores when they get back from work , they actually expect to do so . |
| 24 | So did most of the Sunni inhabitants of Sidon , Tripoli and Beirut . |
| 25 | When he led her away down the back steps the Tibetan followed and so did most of the crowd . |
| 26 | So did most of the camp . |
| 27 | I think I have sufficiently erased most of my first eighteen years , puréed them into harmless baby food . |
| 28 | So had most of the food . |
| 29 | The night duty officer , he said bluntly , had been drunk , and so had most of the NCOs detailed to the job . |
| 30 | A small ducal domain — Edward I held only twenty castles in Aquitaine in the 1290s — ensured the survival of his regime and the Plantagenets consciously and purposefully alienated most of their Gascon assets , with the important exception of the wine customs collected at Bordeaux . |