Example sentences of "most [prep] [pron] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Passageways were pierced through the walls of houses in some places , and in others they were supported on props along the faces of warehouses and shops , and it was across one of these — a sturdy bridge of timber which was designed to withstand the weight of carts as well as men — that Burun 's party moved without very much opposition from the revellers , most of whom clearly preferred the breadth of the main streets . |
| 2 | He assured her they would not , they would think he was guilty , that most of them already thought he was guilty . |
| 3 | The fact that most of them already had criminal records was widely publicised and used as evidence of their guilt in the Chai Qing Feng case . |
| 4 | I think that generally they came in because they liked the style erm they , they , usually had er , in their minds what they wanted and because they go round and see all these fittings at night , I mean our shop used to be all the fittings were lit up at night so that you could have a look in , erm it 's very confusing I think when you , you 've got an awful lot of fittings in , in , in a shop and , and all of them lit , decide which one 's gon na to be the best for your house , but I think most of them already had ideas what , what sort of fitting they wanted and of course we used to do a great deal of |
| 5 | Left influence was sustained increasingly by events overseas , events over which most Labour supporters felt they had little control and which most of them probably saw as secondary to their still-lingering economic burdens . |
| 6 | Some European nations still gave much weight to traditional authority , but most of them also showed a growing tendency to seek to legitimize such authority on other grounds . |
| 7 | Some of them helped , but most of them just stood in their doorways and watched . |
| 8 | Her hearers found it difficult to believe that this screaming was involuntary ; some thought she was drunk , or ill , or possessed by an evil spirit , but most of them just wanted her out of the way : ‘ some wished she was on the sea in a bottomless boat ’ . |
| 9 | And I think most of them there did , too : she seems popular with them . ’ |
| 10 | Most of them really came to believe that Rhodesia had excellent race relations and that the war was perpetrated by ‘ communist-trained hand -inspired murdering scum ’ . |
| 11 | Most of them never had experience of : town and country planning , administration of trusts , company law , partnership law , tax planning , book-keeping and accounts , commercial law , or ( doubtless ) advocacy . |
| 12 | Scotland was well endowed with its own gangsters in the '60s , but local sociology ensured that most of them never became famous , unless of course they spent a lifetime suffering in brutal prison cells and re-emerged as award-winning sculptors . |
| 13 | Most of them then switched their loyalty to the country 's spiritual leader , Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , who was determined not to allow the Islamic revolution to fall into the hands of a man he saw as an opportunist reformer . |
| 14 | During the period under discussion there have been a considerable number of such pressure groups — for example , the Nationwide Festival of Light ; the Order of Christian Unity ; the Responsible Society ; the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child , LIFE , as well as a host of other , smaller groups — most of which actually originated in this period . |
| 15 | In addition , the Moldavian Supreme Soviet on June 23 endorsed a report by a special parliamentary commission , declaring illegal the 1940 Soviet annexation from Romania of Bessarabia ( most of which now formed Soviet Moldavia ) and other territories . |
| 16 | You used to have to take a er a erm your own cup and erm that was for your for for whatever we had we I do n't know I remember we had lemonade or pop or whether it was tea or we had er we had to take a cup , and er most of us invariably took a a big handkerchief with us . |
| 17 | When the war ended the OSS was busted up : they hung on to a few units — there was a whole alphabet soup of SI , SSU , X-2 , CIG , for a time — but most of us just went home to build a brave new world with law books and Shakespeare . |
| 18 | The minds of the other literate villagers were dissipated on what they could pick up in a random manner : most of it naturally consisted of religious tracts , the traditional fodder left over from the past . |