Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] to [art] main " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Once I got on to a main road I would n't have any trouble getting a lift . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I wandered back to the main entrance of the chateau and found Benjamin , equally disconsolate , sitting on the steps . |
| 4 | Change over to the main bed sinker plate . |
| 5 | An antechamber may be built on to the main egg-chamber . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Land Rover came down to the main road between Lochgilphead and Lochgair . |
| 9 | I simply climbed over the eight foot fence , strolled over to the main accomodation block and mingled with all the other prisoners there . |
| 10 | As they drove up to the main door Louise tried not to be emotional . |
| 11 | I walk up to the main building along a path of large brown stones with the shape and texture of unleavened bread . |
| 12 | I thought about running along beside him as we came up to the main road opposite the church , about his taking my hand and singing , ‘ Hold my hand — I 'm a stranger in paradise ! ’ |
| 13 | This seemed reasonable , so reluctantly Sophie got in his car and sat in silence as he drove out to the main road . |
| 14 | Finally he drove back to the main road . |
| 15 | and as we 're right up towards the end and now after the bank holiday we 've had lovely fine weather anyway , we got off to the main road and turned at Fibwell traffic lights onto the A twenty one and we got the to end of the dual carriageway onto the tail end of the queue as it started into the road works so I just went over the central reservation and went back down the dual carriageway to the traffic lights at |
| 16 | For those , you have to traipse off to the main offices . |
| 17 | He knew the feel of every cold stone step on the wide staircase leading down to the main hall . |
| 18 | Marie had no time to think about Bella 's story : the little queue surged forward and they found themselves inside the double doors in a short corridor leading through to the main ward . |
| 19 | But then they 'd still presumably report back to the main group about what they 'd been doing . |
| 20 | Note that only some of the additional text rows created by lexicographic activity in the Working-Set are copied back to the Main Database . |
| 21 | There the caterpillar first cuts all the leaf veins leading back to the main stalk before settling in for a dinner which it hopes can not then be communicated to the neighbouring leaves . |
| 22 | Since a van service , operating at fixed times , transports call-slips to the Annexe in batches , and brings the items requested back to the Main Building in batches , the time taken for straightforward deliveries of outhoused publications depends entirely on the time at which the request is submitted . |
| 23 | Ben stood before the shallow flight of steps that led up to the main entrance , his head tilted back as he studied the frontage . |
| 24 | The path ended at the wide stone steps that led up to the main entrance of the lodge . |
| 25 | To the Edinburgh , at least the Scotland passengers , to Carstairs to connect up to the main Glasgow Central to Liverpool , Birmingham and there were all these places . |
| 26 | The band , invited on to the main stage at Reading by Teenage Fanclub after their appearance in the club tent was cancelled due to inclement weather , play Newport TJ 's , and appear as special guests of Pavement at London Astoria . |
| 27 | Thanking him , Delaney and Connors walked over to the main plot . |
| 28 | Burns waved cheerfully to him and walked back to the main entrance . |
| 29 | She walked round to the main entrance and took the lift . |
| 30 | The court was told she had ignored a Give Way sign at a junction and had driven on to the main road at about 40 mph . |