Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the main [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before Chas could reply , Ace burst in from the main access corridor . |
| 2 | Cardiff looked over to where the other two strangers were laying their metal suitcases carefully down in the main reception area under the watchful eye of Pearce 's men . |
| 3 | Beattie was taken back to the cell and shortly afterwards brought down to the main police office where the other men who had been arrested were being assembled . |
| 4 | They went through to the main City Transfer barrier , ignoring the long queue of passengers formed up at the gates , going directly to the duty officer , a short , broad-shouldered man with neat black hair . |
| 5 | He wandered along the thick carpets through to the main drawing room . |
| 6 | My daughter lives over on the main Oxford road . |
| 7 | I simply climbed over the eight foot fence , strolled over to the main accomodation block and mingled with all the other prisoners there . |
| 8 | Change over to the main bed sinker plate . |
| 9 | ‘ See yah around , ’ Billy bawled over his shoulder and waved as the bike took off towards the main Bristol road . |
| 10 | After the arrival in France of the advance reconnaissance party on 6 June 1944 , Major Fraser had taken off with the main recce party on 10 June . |
| 11 | ‘ After the quarantine period 's over , ’ he went on , with an air of simplifying an impossibly complex process , ‘ the containers are transferred into the decanning cave through a series of sub-ponds leading off from the main storage pond . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | From Caniço we go back up onto the main airport road and continue on to Santa Cruz ( 20km ) , whose centre is situated off to the right of the main road . |
| 14 | and that brings you up onto the main Belfast road |
| 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 | And then she glanced out of the main kitchen window , the one that had a partial view of the terrace ; Angelica looked as well , and saw that they had a few customers arriving and looking around uncertainly at the unstaffed deck . |
| 17 | ( Several delegates were heard to mutter , ‘ Surely that write-off/obsolescence figure was too low ’ , as they made their way out of the main meeting room . ) |
| 18 | The fellow 's resistance collapsed like a house of cards ; bowing and mumbling apologies , he led us out of the main palace building , across a deserted cobbled yard to a small tower built in the far wall of the palace . |
| 19 | The hotel has wonderful gardens full of olive trees and is set back from the main lakeside road , about 700 yards from Brenzone . |
| 20 | Back in the main sitting room where she had been at first she was introduced to Antonietta 's husband Gennaro who was the head of the household . |
| 21 | Referring back to the main circuit diagram , Fig. 2 , resistor R5 can be seen to be the charge resistor for capacitor C3 , whilst a rapid discharge occurs predominantly through R6 . |