Example sentences of "most [prep] them [modal v] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as annoying is the pretty dictum that acts must sing live , when most of them ca n't . |
| 2 | ‘ Most of them ca n't do any more than that because their eyesight is bad . ’ |
| 3 | Most of them ca n't be played because they 're so fragile and if they were restored they would n't make their original sound . |
| 4 | Most of them ca n't wait to get into the boats and onto the water . |
| 5 | Most of them would not go on , but three were brave enough to go down into the valley . |
| 6 | Whilst working on the drama series A Little Princess with a dozen twelve-to fourteen-year-old girls , I noted that although they were all sweet kids most of them would n't be seen dead without their eyeliner . |
| 7 | I could ask the other players ( providing of course that Leeds are in the Final ) , however because of all the troubles the players and Managers have had in the past , most of them wo n't sell their tickets and usually only give them to their families in case they fall into the wrong hands , and then they are in trouble . |
| 8 | It 's likely that most of them wo n't ever have seen a microlight . |
| 9 | It 's likely that most of them wo n't ever have seen a microlight . |
| 10 | But most of them could not understand his lasting despair , for was he not free and in the very home of democracy ? |