Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] most [prep] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found that most of them relied for information on their nearest educated contacts , the priests and the Nepmen , or else fell back on rumour , which still loomed large in their news lives . |
| 2 | Without always being as explicit as writers like Lippmann , it seemed that most of them were content to redefine democracy in such a way as to eliminate its traditional popular participatory aspirations . |
| 3 | Interviews with 58 teenagers from the London area , who each had one white and one African or Afro-Caribbean parent , showed that most of them felt very positive about themselves . |
| 4 | ‘ It was very hard work in many ways ’ , he told me in February 1985 , ‘ and the fact that we 'd been thirteen years [ in Opposition ] meant that most of them , almost all of them , had no experience at all in government . |
| 5 | She took on Richard Burton and it is impossible that she did not know — quite soon — that there were flaws : she knew about theatrical affairs and knew that most of them were no more than vessels bumping in the night or for the run of the play . |
| 6 | Yet he knew that most of them would never survive even if they were free and that most would probably want to stay where they had for so long been safe , secure and well fed . |
| 7 | I wondered if I should learn Swedish ( impossible , I 'm told ) and then remembered that most of them speak reasonable English . |
| 8 | Scotland was well endowed with its own gangsters in the '60s , but local sociology ensured that most of them never became famous , unless of course they spent a lifetime suffering in brutal prison cells and re-emerged as award-winning sculptors . |