Example sentences of "most [prep] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Australia has agreed to pay the government of the Pacific island of Nauru a total of A$120 million ( £50 million ) as recompense for the environmental damage wreaked by 90 years of phosphate mining , most of it carried out while Nauru was administered by Australia as a UN Trusteeship . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was assumed that most of it went to the Provisionals and a smaller amount to the Official IRA . |
| 4 | Duncan had tried to explain what he was doing , but most of it went straight over Myeloski 's head . |
| 5 | Almost certainly most of it went to Rye , the chief centre of shipbuilding , where , as well as at Playden , ropemakers were working some years later . |
| 6 | Er they say that 's where most of it went on er they would go into the pub and the riveter would tally up the the sheet for the week and say well okay , that 's , you know , the holder-on gets so much and the rivet boy gets so much , and the riveter got so much , and what have you . |
| 7 | Same of the paint went on the window frame ; a lot of it went on the glass ; and most of it went on the floor . |
| 8 | It was only a short spell of relief , most of it spent down Channel in atrocious summer weather as I remember , but it was enough to whet my appetite for more , and the start of a long love affair with Venturous . |
| 9 | Grunte , who had little time for the Third World , said that as far as he was concerned , most of it seemed to have moved to Birmingham . |
| 10 | In my experience , gay porn , most of it produced abroad , is increasingly widely available . |
| 11 | Jones lists assets of $338,000 against debts of $1.6 million , most of it owed to the tax man . |
| 12 | I was cleaning , cleaning it up and of course I was tapping it with a hammer was n't I to try and get all the putty you know , try and break the putty and most of it came away and I just tapped this one little |
| 13 | C H SISSON — poet , translator , novelist , critic , polemicist , former Whitehall mandarin and the candidate who should have won Oxford 's Chair of Poetry — has finally unveiled his life 's story , most of it told , with typical unconventionality , backwards . |
| 14 | But in this case most of it had n't been touched since 1934 , and part of it was requisitioned for troops during the war . |
| 15 | Most of it had passed over Vologsky 's head . |
| 16 | But most of it had already escaped the princes ' grasp in the tenth century ; in the course of the eleventh , it passed squarely into the hands of local castellans , who exacted fines and imposed penalties on their peasants with remorseless vigour . |
| 17 | Not only that , the recordings were made on the very instrument for which most of it had been written , so there 's no doubt that the sounds we hear are the very sounds he had in mind when setting out his very registration . |
| 18 | The great clothing factory that took up most of it had shut down its operations more than four hours back and only a handful of Security guards and maintenance engineers were to be found down here now . |
| 19 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that when the shadow Chancellor recently visited the James Halstead group in my constituency — it employs more than 400 people and is successful in making good profits — he expressed satisfaction to the local media that most of the technology that he saw was British-made and that most of it had been made 20 miles from Bury ? |
| 20 | A lot of what went on was based on gossip , most of it spread by members themselves . ’ |
| 21 | He was full of all the gossip and rumours , most of it picked up from the ships he visited and seamen he talked to . |
| 22 | Most of it happened thanks to tireless negotiations with opera houses , TV crews and recording companies in the west , but it has not so far turned out to be anything like a pact with the devil . |
| 23 | In that decade European men won almost a quarter of the 40 major championships played and for most of it dominated the top ten in the world rankings . |
| 24 | It 's in there because you ca n't have executive style cabinet government in local government unless you pay executive councillors executive salaries , it 's got nothing to do with the idea of you getting thirty five pounds rather than thirty three if we stay here all day erm I would just , I 'm really wisely advised to make one point er Mr er was c wondering why this did n't have majority support actually most of it did I think Mr will confirm that he and his colleagues were happy to support all of the proposed responses from A to J on page thirty and thirty one but were not happy with response B and I would like to er that erm that er when our responses do go forward it is made clear that apart from little paragraph B there was all party support because I really feel that our local authority associates need to know that and erm I hope that will be little B was er a piece that erm certainly I and my colleagues supported er , rather . |
| 25 | I do n't know if it all came to Oxford , but certainly most of it did , and erm the city council actually spent six shillings and sixpence strewing the streets with flowers to welcome her , which erm when we have a look at the amount of money that was being , having to be raised elsewhere it was quite generous really . |
| 26 | Fucking alright , I have n't been up to the today , I 've spent most of it sat fucking here . |
| 27 | Erm , most of it grown , it 'd grown back and it has grown back funny |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I drank the limitless champagne on offer ( most of it soaked without fuss into the parched coral of my tongue ) and listened to Herrick 's obsequious banter . |
| 30 | It was much warmer than I thought and I had n't practised taking a drink while running , so most of it missed my mouth . |