Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] most [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm just describing my attitude at the time , which I shared with most of my fellow students : an attitude of complete boredom and feeling that nothing was worth making an effort for . |
| 2 | ‘ I checked out most of Crevecoeur 's old haunts , ’ he said , consulting his memofile , ‘ and turned up the goods at Alix Micklemas ’ tattoo parlour . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I have decided that what I believed in most of my life was wrong , ’ says the famous Mr Winmill . |
| 4 | Erm I suppose to most of us here Sandy , Sandy Shaw was . |
| 5 | Now I suppose for most of us because of the very fact were here this morning they have been few and far between such experiences , perhaps what is more common is that we may have spent time with someone who was dying , their last few hours , their last few minutes , and if they were not unconscious I wonder what sort of conversation would be going on between us and them , what sort of things would we , would we of been saying , what would we be asking us , well in this passage that we have been reading we have just such a conversation , two men who are on the verge of death , death can only be hours away for both of them , and here they have this conversation , it was in that sense it was one of the strangest interviews any body ever had with Jesus not only is the , the account here of er a death bed conversion , but the one who is saving is also in the process of dying . |
| 6 | Now , I suppose for most of us , bu bu because of the very fact we 're here this morning they have been few and far between , such experiences . |
| 7 | So I think it is turning like that but it w certainly was n't when I went to most of them I did n't , I never met anybody from Channing or Highgate or l or from north London schools anyway . |
| 8 | I agree with most of Mr Ward 's ratings . |
| 9 | I agree with most of your sentiments re : Wilko . |
| 10 | I agree with most of what you say about Frank . |
| 11 | When my parents went and I was left alone I cried for most of the night . |
| 12 | ‘ More than I approve of most of what I see down here . |
| 13 | I vomited up most of my half-chewed dinner as well . |
| 14 | I stayed up most of the night , totally engrossed in the book only to find that David Wood had published what I had only just begun to suspect , a definite pattern underlying the whole region of Rennes-le-Chateau . |
| 15 | But Carl Prean may not be accommodated on one issue , the exclusion of German Bundesliga results , which account for most of his successes . |
| 16 | In addition there are rehearsals , which account for most of the time spent on music . |
| 17 | Moreover , the P cepacia problem has emerged at the same time as social networks have developed between adult patients with CF , and their families ; many individuals have derived great mutual benefit from these contacts , which provide for most of their social activity . |
| 18 | Further minor straws in the wind were Archbishop Makarios ’ request for British help in Cyprus in December 1963 , which drew in most of the Strategic Reserve 's 3rd Division before a hand-over to the United Nations could be negotiated ; and the quelling of the military mutinies in newly independent Tanzania , Kenya and Uganda in January 1964 , at their governments ’ request , by Commandos brought on the aircraft-carrier Centaur from Aden and by units of the Strategic Reserve in Kenya . |
| 19 | The process involves removing impurities from the coal by flotation , which deals with most of the inorganic sulphur . |
| 20 | On the rocky point near the settlement we came across a small flock of birds which had a very familiar look about them : they were whimbrel , that Arctic version of the curlew which breeds on most of the northern islands , including Shetland . |
| 21 | Oxygen in the atmosphere forms a screen , the ozone layer , which cuts off most of the ultraviolet rays of the sun . |
| 22 | Through the ports of Rye , Winchelsea and Shoreham the men of the Weald exported an increasing amount of timber , both as ‘ billets ’ of fuel and , in large oaks , for building ; one major ancillary of this was the ship-building industry which flourished in most of the county 's ports until the later fourteenth century . |
| 23 | His shoes were stout brown brogues , suitable for the tramping from place to place which takes up most of a detective 's time . |
| 24 | Nowadays , it 's the Pet Care Helpline which takes up most of Christine 's time and she has no plans of stopping . |
| 25 | The path we followed is only a short section of the 560-mile Ulster Way , which takes in most of the province and requires a good three weeks to complete , but this section of the coastal path can be completed in a couple of days , though longer is highly recommended . |
| 26 | The efforts being made now to change these attitudes are seeking to reverse a trend which persisted for most of this century endorsed by official government attitudes to the care of the handicapped . |
| 27 | Skippers in the Scottish white fish fleet , which accounts for most of the UK 's North Sea haddock catch , are particularly aggrieved at the EC 's ‘ swingeing ’ cut in quota this year . |
| 28 | This pattern holds for nitrate , which accounts for most of the nitrogen in the bay , and especially for nitrogen from ammonia , which , though a small part of the total , is far more prevalent in rainwater than in run-off . |
| 29 | The rapid expansion was due to development of the country 's mineral resources , dominated by diamonds ( which contributed over 84 per cent of export earnings ) and the beef industry ( which accounts for most of agriculture 's 3 per cent contribution to GDP ) . |
| 30 | Management rotation is practised , so that managers too can co-operate from a basis of knowledge , and this is reinforced by the ‘ lifetime employment ’ model which applies to most of these managers , and allows a considerable degree of company-specific expertise to develop . |