Example sentences of "most [prep] they do [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would spend a great deal of time trying to fit in fresh pieces only to find that most of them did n't belong to his picture . |
| 2 | And everybody was working for Hurley , although most of them did n't know it . |
| 3 | but fifty per cent of the people who said they were coming did n't turn up and most of them did n't phone in or anything like that which was a little bit of an upset for the host erm and consequently there was a bit put in |
| 4 | Most of them did not control for a possible confounding effect of H pylori infection . |
| 5 | Certainly abolitionists used techniques which had a radical pedigree — this was a source of Wilberforce 's concern — but most of them did not tie them to programmes of large-scale reconstruction of the political order and sought to portray the economic change involved in abolition and emancipation as a smooth transition to a more profitable state of affairs . |
| 6 | Most of them did not escape from wartime secrecy and were not properly developed until the war was over . |
| 7 | Most of them did not differ greatly from most other grammar schools , which also ( of course ) enrolled fee-payers . |
| 8 | If some or even most of them do not respond , how can we know whether the answers that we have got are representative ? |
| 9 | Yeah but you find most of them do n't inhale anyway so it 's not doing any damage . |
| 10 | Although a protein is a chain of amino acids , most of them do n't remain long and stringy . |
| 11 | So they 're negative , extraordinarily touchy about their power , and above all , most of them do n't do their job well — which is to represent things accurately . ’ |
| 12 | Most of them do n't do they ? |
| 13 | Most of them do n't do their own now do they ? |
| 14 | Most of them do n't show it but you can set it to show it . |
| 15 | Most of them do n't expect to see their families again until Christmas . |
| 16 | If there 's real trouble with the blacks most of them do n't want to know . |
| 17 | Now , if you 've got nowhere else , erm , at the bottom end of the door to fit it , that 's fine , but as a matter of a preference , Crime Prevention like to see them fitted a third of the way up the door , that is where our thieves put the boot in , and thieves will work to pressure points , to leverage points they come equipped , or most of them do n't come equipped , because obviously if they 're walking along the street and a police officer sees them , you know , pull them over and start to talk to them , most of them will actually er use the tools from the back garden or or things they find lying around to help themselves in . |
| 18 | It is , it 's nice most of them do n't work , I 've got |
| 19 | ‘ Most of them do n't know the first thing about sailing . ’ |
| 20 | After all , these guys are no part of my battle , most of them do n't know me , and they 've turned out in numbers only because Rufus said they had to defend their territory — but I decide this ai n't the time for that , and it would make more sense to invite these gift-horses in for coffee and what 's left of the whisky . |
| 21 | Most of them do n't seem to have read it because there seems to be difficulty getting hold of a copy |
| 22 | In fact , only a tiny proportion of the inhabitants of Florida have two legs , and even most of them do n't call it Florida . |
| 23 | Most of 'em do n't get used more than a few hours in the year . |