Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the main " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are just as important though as what goes on in the main body of the conference centre . |
| 2 | Fraser , impatient at so inactive a role , persuaded the Regent to relieve him and appoint a replacement Deputy Warden , and now rode on with the main cavalry host . |
| 3 | Touching down on the main wheels first , the Ercoupe twitched into line ; they even tried it with the rudder pedals locked , flying on elevator and aileron only , but found the feeling ‘ rather disconcerting ’ ! |
| 4 | The steam centre based in the Warwick Road , Birmingham is situated in between the main British Rail diesel multiple unit maintenance depot and re-fuelling sidings , complete with a large car-park for several hundred cars . |
| 5 | Reproaching herself for not having unlocked it when she had come in from the main door , she rose quickly and went to open up . |
| 6 | My daughter lives over on the main Oxford road . |
| 7 | Forester checked the drawers and cupboards before he moved through into the main room . |
| 8 | now she has an iris mountain , with Sir Cedric 's and the many more she grew from seed brought back from America , fenced off from the main garden in her ‘ Stalag 13 look ’ . |
| 9 | On and off street parking is available within easy walking distance of the museum and coach parties can be dropped off at the main entrance |
| 10 | Ample free parking is available adjacent to the Museum and coach parties can be dropped off at the main entrance |
| 11 | On and off street parking is available within easy walking distance of the museum and coach parties can be dropped off at the main entrance . |
| 12 | Eventually we moved off through the main gate of the camp to the Vorlager , or front camp , where the showers were situated . |
| 13 | Yet Lankester often ignored this warning in his own work , and suggested that all forms of life can be ranked into grades defined by the point at which they branched off from the main line of progress towards humankind . |
| 14 | We drew up by the main entrance and Tony and I went through the swing doors at speed and headed for the secretary 's office . |
| 15 | David Ormerod , a geology lecturer at the Open University , has been held in Oradea , Romania , for the past three days , after being picked up at the main crossing point into Hungary . |
| 16 | Richard and John barred any further advance by holding Châteauroux long enough to permit their father to come up with the main Angevin army and force Philip to raise the siege . |
| 17 | As I arrived a tractor pulled up with sacks of freshly-picked hops that would be carried up to the main floor of the building to be dried . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , two stragglers and a dog are running to catch up with the main party ( 2 ) . |
| 19 | Sometimes there was a dense mass of men , sometimes only a trickle hurrying to catch up with the main body . |
| 20 | Walking up from the main road we passed the camel drivers squatting round their early morning fires . |
| 21 | An imposing large house stands back from the main road , known as Thorne Hall , dated 1881 . |
| 22 | The sound of the engine starting up was a welcome intrusion , the smooth glide of the craft as it moved out into the main stream a gratifying feeling . |
| 23 | I wandered back to the main entrance of the chateau and found Benjamin , equally disconsolate , sitting on the steps . |
| 24 | Change over to the main bed sinker plate . |
| 25 | An antechamber may be built on to the main egg-chamber . |
| 26 | The boarding annexe at Burleigh was an unlovely square built on to the main house in the nineteen-twenties-it was the cause , in fact , of the original owner going bankrupt and being forced to forsake the licensed trade . |
| 27 | The base tray is as deep as the corpse is high , the head section having been fashioned from a separate sheet of lead and soldered on to the main body of the shell . |
| 28 | The Land Rover came down to the main road between Lochgilphead and Lochgair . |
| 29 | She turned as two uniformed policemen came in through the main entrance . |
| 30 | It 's possible that he tiptoed down the passage and came in by the main door . |