Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the main " in BNC.
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| 1 | She does n't know how he got through the main doors and an electronically operated gate to get in to the courtyard where the car is always left unlocked . |
| 2 | ‘ Willingly , ’ Rose agreed , and led the way to a small antechamber that led off the main saloon . |
| 3 | He had the choice of half-a-dozen alleys which led off the main street and climbed to the terraces . |
| 4 | Accounting policies should normally be discussed and agreed during the main negotiations . |
| 5 | Except for minor modifications after they branched off the main line , all living species could be treated as steps on the way towards the human form . |
| 6 | He headed for the main building , and the area of the basement where secure matter could be despatched back home . |
| 7 | At about 5.30pm on Sunday everybody shut off their music and headed for the main stage to hear the results . |
| 8 | Lucy moved into the main room , barefoot on the carpet . |
| 9 | His face turned thoughtful as the waiter approached with the main courses . |
| 10 | Fearing an imminent clampdown , the Gagauzes brought forward the elections to Oct. 25 , when thousands demonstrated in the main Gagauz town of Komrat , defying the Moldavian authorities to intervene and calling on USSR authorities for assistance . |
| 11 | If you decide to do this , Azhag is the Warlord of your army and therefore replaces the Warlord described in the main army list . |
| 12 | If you decide to do this , Grom is the Warlord of your army and therefore replaces the Warlord described in the main army list . |
| 13 | In place of the pathetic , unimportant little Jew , Kirov focussed upon the main character of the plot , the pilot , Mikhail Vologsky . |
| 14 | Mr Hillcoat said : ‘ Nearly 90 per cent of all these accidents occurred in the main urban areas of Darlington , inside the southern bypass in 30 mph speed limit zones . ’ |
| 15 | But it was not instrumental music per se that gave Italy its centuries of primacy , though it contributed to the main form in which that primacy was manifested ; it was the continuing drive to make music express poetic texts . |
| 16 | He crashed on the main ‘ Route 7 ’ Speke Road in Ditton , Widnes , after offering to give 17-year-old Donna Jackson a lift home to Runcorn when she missed her last bus . |
| 17 | This occurred at the main dispensing chemist in Wirral 's largest township : |
| 18 | Clustered around the main building are a number of older stone-built dye-houses , drying stoves and outbuildings , some of which have been imaginatively converted . |
| 19 | I shrank back while the fortune teller tottered towards the main street . |
| 20 | Police cordoned off the main A556 Manchester Road and diverted commuter traffic while Operation Cloudburst was underway . |
| 21 | Colonel Bowers was in his flying-suit by three o'clock and ready to go , when the long black limousine from the Pentagon 's New York bureau came through the main gate . |
| 22 | Derelict , he had thought when they drove through the main street . |
| 23 | Recalling the defeat of the 1991 coup , Yeltsin said that he had outwitted the former KGB chief , Vladimir Kryuchkov , whom he identified as the main organizer of the attempt . |
| 24 | Ten minutes later she drove into the main entrance of Conway House and gradually she felt her anger ebb away . |
| 25 | Production rose with population , too : between 1880 and 1912 4 million more acres came under the main food crops . |
| 26 | As he drove up the main street and turned out of the town at the top , Sarah looked round her with pleasure and George studied her surreptitiously as she did so . |
| 27 | It was only 5.30 pm when I came into the main hospital building , but a cheeky nurse said ‘ Bon soir , Miss Veness , parlez-vous Francaise ? |
| 28 | One afternoon , when Hindley had gone into town , Heathcliff came into the main room after lunch . |
| 29 | I sneaked into the main dealing room and found a heating vent near the skirting-board at one end which I could unscrew and look as if I was doing something professional . |
| 30 | In the evening we drove into Chamonix and parked in the main street . |