Example sentences of "most [prep] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | we get on the train at , most of them get on at Elstree luckily so what we do is we open the doors and they 're always crowding up the bit where the door is and they say excuse me may I get on please ? |
| 2 | Most of them get back into it in a big way . |
| 3 | Mostly he always used to take the mickey out of the girls because they always used to talk about their boy-friends and what they were doing on different nights and that , because you see , most of them went out with boys from the same school , see , and he knew them . |
| 4 | Other passengers were queueing at the check-point , most of them looking back as if that glimpse was all they could carry with them to their destinations . |
| 5 | Most of them opened on to storerooms , or offices , which he was n't interested in , but eventually he found one door that opened into a chemical laboratory whose air was tangy with scents that irritated the nasal and throat passages . |
| 6 | Most of them ended up in the Middle East with Layforce , and when that was broken up they attached themselves to Combined Operations in Alexandria . |
| 7 | and you 've got some er some comes , most of them comes out at half past three from this , from Travis School , and then you 've got to wait while Manor comes out . |
| 8 | Only a few places , like the Pool of Virkie at the south end of Shetland , attract waders for a time on migration , and most of them move on to richer pastures for the water . |
| 9 | But most of them finish up against the scaffolding . |
| 10 | ‘ Most of them finish up against the bridge these days , apparently . ’ |
| 11 | And most of them moved down to Green as soon as it was built . |
| 12 | Canvas covered and drawn by up to eight horses , most of them moved along at walking pace , but some lighter vans or " fly wagons " with more regular change of horses were faster . |
| 13 | At least 13 protesters were killed , most of them run over by tanks as they stood in a human cordon trying to defend the building , and 230 were injured ; a soldier also died , shot by one of his own men . |
| 14 | Life was not quite a state of nature or a question of the survival of the fittest , but in times of no food parcels the partition separating us from that state was unpleasantly thin and even at the best of times it was thin enough to be able to hear most of what went on on the other side . |
| 15 | But caterpillars , most of which banquet out in the open , must look to their defences . |
| 16 | The average household throws away 3kg of waste paper every week , most of which ends up in landfill where its breakdown contributes to the production of explosive methane gas . |
| 17 | Most of us move on without daring to look back , so we never come to terms with the truth about these old relationships . |
| 18 | Huge sums of money were generated by the World Cup and it is of the greatest importance that most of it goes back into the game and its development . |
| 19 | He was full of all the gossip and rumours , most of it picked up from the ships he visited and seamen he talked to . |
| 20 | If you are worried about this problem then it is worth knowing that the radiation decreases in strength very rapidly with distance and most of it comes out of the back of the monitor . |
| 21 | erm so I mean for example with something like statistics that covers different techniques and activities from , you know , different books erm something like erm something like social most of it comes out of that which is a thing we did because people were experiencing difficulty with it so we thought well right we 'll , we 'll , we 'll sort of anchor the syllabus mostly to , you know , one particular book erm so different , different staff use different techniques , some people ha have drawn on a whole variety of things and , and , and some people have just drawn on one erm I think the main priority is to try and do some coursework though in your case erm |
| 22 | It was a triumph of planning in so short a time for so complicated a matter , most of it carried through in most places within a year or two years of the passing of the act . |
| 23 | Many gangs were apprehended and their gear confiscated , most of it ending up in our possession . |
| 24 | question eight , in Britain we play the game draughts , in America the same game is called checkers er , number nine , one or two of you got it right , most of you caught out with M G sports cars , the M G actually stands for Morris Garages |
| 25 | And most of you caught on to that , number ten , policy reviews are a check to see if D , current benefits can be sustained . |