Example sentences of "most [prep] [pron] [vb past] in " in BNC.
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1 | What had originated as a spontaneous civilian outburst now began to be depicted in the international media as a revolt by Iraq 's majority Shia community , most of whom lived in the southern part of the country . |
2 | Most of them died in the onslaught which followed , their historic city completely destroyed . |
3 | Most of them believed in an immaterial reality too . |
4 | Books — shelves and shelves of books , reaching up to the ceiling , most of them bound in pale calf with gold lettering on the spines . |
5 | Er and most of us had in excess of a hundred pound , maybe a hundred and six , a hundred and ten pound , but when this guy bought place over , there was a kind of flat rate , and we 'd to drop sixteen pounds to ninety |
6 | Most of it lay in Great Britain , in a northern belt running from Lens and Lys in France across Belgium to the Ruhr , and in the Lorraine-Saar-Luxembourg region . |
7 | The exhibition includes some delicately-worked gold jewellery , most of it found in Celtic tombs in the past 100 years : typically gold or silver torques , or saddle and bridle decorations of gold , silver , coral and enamel . |