Example sentences of "[coord] [vb pp] [prep] most [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as I managed to put them on him — which was n't easy ! — he tore away at his legs like a thing possessed and ripped off most of his lovely white leg feathers in the process . |
| 2 | The trouble was that after they were born , children had to wait for six years before they could be sent to school and forgotten for most of the day . |
| 3 | The nature of pollution control work draws attention to these issues because it involves a substantial degree of discretion at field level among staff who are physically dispersed and isolated for most of the day while tending a complex and unpredictable environment . |
| 4 | It has also shown that treatment of children with cystic fibrosis has produced adults who are fit , active , and integrated for most of their lives . |
| 5 | He shuffled past well ordered , dusted shelves and racks , and past the little office where his father had sat and schemed for most of his life . |
| 6 | Released after the armistice , but with health broken by hunger strikes , prone to paranoiac suspicions , and deserted by most of his former colleagues , Maclean fought two last campaigns : in 1919 to prevent allied counter-revolution in the Soviet Union — in concert with Sinn Fein — and in 1920 to create a distinctive Scottish Communist Party . |
| 7 | The quantity , value and type of goods and services traditionally exported and imported by most of the contemporary rich nations , indeed , fell into fairly clear patterns . |