Example sentences of "they [vb past] the main " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already in October 1953 the British defence chiefs had warned that in a world war they expected the main and first Soviet nuclear assault to be directed against the British Isles . |
| 2 | But they got the main job done and now they want to do the same against Spain next month before heading to Belfast for a party . |
| 3 | The windows were lit by the flames of thousands of beeswax candles and , as they approached the main entrance , they heard faint strains of music , chatter , and the sounds of merriment . |
| 4 | They rejected the main tenets of revolutionary Marxism , denied the central role of the proletariat , and dreamed of a peasant-based socialism . |
| 5 | Straight after that they played the main Mill team , and again turned out comfortable winners with a 3 . |
| 6 | Then , with headlamps full on , they joined the main tarmacadam coast road . |
| 7 | Using Pareto analysis , they discovered the main causes of poor productivity and quality . |
| 8 | still there , but they finished the main building |
| 9 | Then they hit the main road and he opened the bike up and for an awful second she thought she was going to slide off the back . |
| 10 | But when they were switched on they blew the main fuses , which deprived them of lighting for the day and taught them why they had to rely on coal fires . |
| 11 | They represented the main category of course provision in the District and provided the major area of growth in student numbers and geographical expansion . |
| 12 | When they reached the main road she pulled him roughly across to where Irish Tom 's van was parked . |
| 13 | They reached the main deck , dropping down |
| 14 | He finally managed to light up as they reached the main road , and he blew a sidelong stream of blue smoke behind the Brigadier 's head . |
| 15 | When they reached the main gate , the Tamil Tigers shot him and threw his body out on the road . |
| 16 | The surface was badly pockmarked and the car bumped and bounced over the uneven thoroughfare , its journey only becoming smoother as they reached the main road that would lead them into Chichester itself . |
| 17 | The three authors , all former Red Guards ( Li Yi Zhe was their collective pen name ) had been arrested for expressing their radical views in ‘ On Socialist Democracy and the Legal System ’ , although at first Deng Xiaoping and Zhao Ziyang had suggested that they supported the main ideas of the poster . |
| 18 | But then think of Benny coming back from Dublin after a day in the university : would n't it be better if they saved the main meal for her return ? |
| 19 | Teresa held her hand as they left the main building by a back door and crunched over the path to the infirmary , Anna dragging her feet . |
| 20 | He had been feeling sick ever since they left the main junction and climbed into the joggling , jolting line train for the last lap of their journey , but the sudden whistle had finished him . |
| 21 | Now they left the main road for the quieter , dimmer back streets . |
| 22 | At Burford , they left the main road and headed down the sloping High Street . |
| 23 | They raided the main city bakery to dispense scones and cakes to workers at the civic centre . |