Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] the main [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I unlocked the main door . |
| 2 | But I got the main thing off a , off a TV programme . |
| 3 | I found the main control lines and gave them to Esmerelda , showing her how to hold them , and where . |
| 4 | Southgate caught up with me as I entered the main hall and saw Santerre and others sitting round the high table . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , except that while I was pulling Harry along to that far corner to give him better support , someone opened the main door above our heads , like I told you , and then went away without saying anything , and I heard a car drive off , which might have been Harry 's . ’ |
| 6 | I admired the main door of the Catedral Nueva — comparatively new , that is , for it was started in 1513 . |
| 7 | Well I , I wriggled the main terminal , three over that side and also the other , er that side . |
| 8 | I followed the main road up the mountain leading west , then struck off along an old mule track . |
| 9 | I was debating whether to try to stop the bleeding first or to leave him in his uncertain state while I found a way out , trusting he would n't totally pass out , when I heard the main door creak open directly above our heads ; the way Harry and I had come in . |
| 10 | It was really funny , I recorded the main lecture the oth , yesterday and it was Dave who 's got like a speech impediment . |
| 11 | I treated the main tank for fungus . |
| 12 | But I thought the main concern would be finding the right building for a museum of this type , and that there would be no need to buy any pictures for it . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's my own fault because I gave the main character the same birthday as me , so I 'd know how much he would be able to remember of his past . |
| 14 | Last month ( p 93 ) , I outlined the main ways in which a company can relieve its ACT . |
| 15 | As I made clear to the House when I answered the main question , the know-how fund has been heavily used in the Baltic republics , on which about £900,000 has been spent . |
| 16 | I said the Main Pain |
| 17 | I left the main group and started searching on the first floor at the west side of the house . |
| 18 | However , Buddhist teaching was not applied to fish , which became the main source of protein in the Japanese diet ; and whales were regarded as fish When eating houses renamed forbidden deer and boar meat ‘ mountain whale ’ , the Japanese knew that eating whale meat was likely to stay . |
| 19 | The CSSU , which became the main focus of the study , together with a centralised forward planning unit , employed a total of 150 staff under the joint control of the two Chief Officers . |
| 20 | In these , his use of mirrors and simple room arrangements indicated his developing interest in the modern movement in Europe , which became the main theme of his work in the 1930s , although never to the exclusion of other styles . |
| 21 | Furthermore the Housing Association which provided the main source of funds to local Housing Associations is now in financial difficulty itself . |
| 22 | The issue which provided the main focus of disagreement , and which had also thwarted progress on the CFE and START negotiations , had been the future political and military status of a united Germany . |
| 23 | Boom products rose and fell ; areas which provided the main body of such exports in our period were later to stagnate or abandon them . |
| 24 | It consisted of a short platform , a tin shack , and a set of buffers up against the hedge which bordered the main road . |
| 25 | In 1989 mines run by the state-owned Centromín mining concern ( a leading producer of zinc , lead , silver and copper ) were badly affected by sabotage by Sendero Luminoso , which caused the main mine , Morococha , to close throughout September . |
| 26 | In 1978 , an SSRC ( ESRC ) working party produced a report on ‘ Research Needs in Work Organisation ’ which identified the main limitations in British research . |
| 27 | The pilot study , which resembled the main survey as closely as possible , revealed that the questions , covering letter and coding frame presented no difficulties , but that several nurses did not own rulers for measuring ulcers ; and that inducements to respond , effective reminders , and problems of distribution had to be considered if a high response rate was to be achieved . |
| 28 | Constructed in 1847/48 , Brechin was originally the terminus of a branch line which joined the main Aberdeen to Glasgow railway at Bridge of Dun . |
| 29 | Mitcham Road depôt in Aurelia Road , West Croydon , remained closed and empty , the connecting curve , which joined the main road towards Mitcham had been taken out on 8 December 1935 . |
| 30 | There were two ways to the farm and the sound came from a narrow track which joined the main road half a mile beyond the other entrance . |