Example sentences of "most [prep] they [vb past] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them had been due to efforts on the spot by units of the Red Army . |
| 2 | Most of them had been in from the start , born survivors , born leaders : amongst these lucky few were numbered Rosie Lane , an athletic , pretty , small-faced girl whose father owned a large grocer 's , and whose primal popularity h ) d been cheaply purchased by the judicious distribution of dried apricots and jelly cubes , which the girls devoured whole . |
| 3 | She looked back over her three years at college , now slowly approaching their close , and she thought of all the people she had known and all the friends she had made , and it seemed to her that most of them had been aiming with varying degrees of accuracy at just such an effect . |
| 4 | There were yellow sodium lights down here , but most of them had been broken by kids throwing stones . |
| 5 | He conveyed the idea that she had known all of them in the beauty of her youth and theirs , and most of them had been her beaux . |
| 6 | These students had also undergone a careful process of scrutiny , and most of them had been required to sit special matriculation examinations . |
| 7 | The thirteen children who developed schizophrenia could be characterised by the following factors : their birth had been relatively difficult ( longer and more complicated than average ) ; most of them had been separated from both parents and many placed in children 's homes at a young age ; they posed a disciplinary problem to their teachers ; and some years earlier they had had a rapid autonomic nervous system ( ANS ) recovery rate . |