Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the main " in BNC.

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1 I am sad that the Government , in their dying months , have decided to cop out of the main stream in Europe .
2 Sometimes there was a dense mass of men , sometimes only a trickle hurrying to catch up with the main body .
3 Traffic was beginning to build up on the main road which bypassed Axe , and the sound of one particular car engine could be heard , becoming steadily louder as it approached her part of the lane .
4 Meanwhile , two stragglers and a dog are running to catch up with the main party ( 2 ) .
5 To join a new length of pipe into an existing inspection chamber , you will have to break a hole in the wall of the chamber and chop away at the benching so that a new half channel can be laid to join up with the main channel .
6 For those , you have to traipse off to the main offices .
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