Example sentences of "walked [prep] the main " in BNC.
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| 1 | She walked behind the main counter to the flap that could be lifted to give access to the shop itself and , leaning on her forearms , looked down on to her weekly customers and asked , ‘ Well then , what is it to be ? ’ |
| 2 | In front of the railway station , a second police car ( summoned by a confident Morse as Lewis had driven him from North Oxford ) was now waiting , and the Chief Inspector nodded a perfunctory greeting to the two detective-constables who sat side by side in the front seats as they watched , and awaited , developments ; watched the three men walk over to the twenty-minute waiting-area set aside for those meeting passengers from British Rail journeys — an area where parking cost nothing at all ; watched them as they passed through that area and walked into the main car-park , with the bold notice affording innocent trespassers the clearest warning : |
| 3 | Mr and Mrs Bumble walked up the main street of the town , then turned towards a group of ruined old houses next to the river . |
| 4 | He walked up the main street for a hundred yards and came to a road off on his right labelled Buller 's Hill . |
| 5 | She walked to the main doors with him and said a quick ‘ Goodnight ’ , reminding him that she 'd pick him up at eleven the following morning . |
| 6 | Donna glanced agitatedly at her watch and walked to the main doors , trying to see the Volvo parked in the street beyond . |
| 7 | The major walked to the main door . |
| 8 | She left the bus , walked down the main road to the comer , turned into her own road and saw scrawled in black beneath her feet ‘ cunt ’ . |
| 9 | Simon Threadneedle walked down the main street . |
| 10 | A couple walked down the main street . |