Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] the main [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had rounded up an excellent spoil of beasts , and would drive them to meet the main host at Birdoswald or thereabouts , in a short time . |
| 2 | Then I unlocked the main door . |
| 3 | Yes , I mean the main brute force of destroying tropical rainforest is population increase , pressure on land , and people going into forests , but a large part of that is determined by the government 's attitude , whether it in fact concentrates on trying to improve agriculture , or whether , under all sorts of pressures from the government to do that . |
| 4 | Er so I suspect it 's not worked out quite as we intended er and it I mean the main problem is that it 's it 's it 's cost us time , cost me time which I would rather have spent on something else but there we are . |
| 5 | I mean the main thing is people can borrow on the true price of the house and then they can have an 80 or 90 per cent mortgage and when they come to pay the mortgage they have the £500 subsidy for twelve months or take them into the next twelve months . |
| 6 | I mean the main thing is these new leaflets really |
| 7 | Erm there have been erm , I should have written it down actually because I 've I 've just gone a complete blank , there was that erm that famous case in the States ah and there were two people who 'd erm I think the main impetus for the abuse of their child came from the came from the man came from the husband and there was a great deal of er debate as to why the woman had n't successfully protected the child or successfully done something about it er and I 've forgotten the names of the people and I 've forgotten when it was . |
| 8 | But I got the main thing off a , off a TV programme . |
| 9 | I found the main control lines and gave them to Esmerelda , showing her how to hold them , and where . |
| 10 | As I say the main idea is that when we get the answers to these er you you know regardless of what you 're actually telling me you know whether you them right or not . |
| 11 | Southgate caught up with me as I entered the main hall and saw Santerre and others sitting round the high table . |
| 12 | I admired the main door of the Catedral Nueva — comparatively new , that is , for it was started in 1513 . |
| 13 | Well I , I wriggled the main terminal , three over that side and also the other , er that side . |
| 14 | The club 's planes were usually Tiger Moths in the main , and as I remember the main airport building adjacent to the main road , pre war , were building Swallow side-cars for motorbikes . |
| 15 | I followed the main road up the mountain leading west , then struck off along an old mule track . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I suppose the main reason was that I was so astonished to find that they existed at all . |
| 18 | It was always considered necessary for a man to shoulder the main burden of work at a farm the size of ours , and I suppose the main reason why the place is a bit run down these days is because there was no man left to take over when Uncle died . |
| 19 | I suppose the main difference I notice about living in the two environments is how my dress is n't bound by convention on the island , I just stick to wearing what is most comfortable . |
| 20 | It was really funny , I recorded the main lecture the oth , yesterday and it was Dave who 's got like a speech impediment . |
| 21 | I treated the main tank for fungus . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | In the Swedish industrial culture where I do the main part of my research , four types of profiles on these three orientations are discernible . |
| 25 | Erm I think the main story as we sort of lead off from the , from the news release is saying that essentially erm our interpretation of the results is that the r the recovery has spread erm to all regions of the economy , at least in terms of orders erm and in terms of the mainland erm economy including Northern Ireland but I 'll go into more details on that in a moment . |
| 26 | I think the main part will be alright cos you 'll be travelling down the A thirty four which is erm |
| 27 | I think the main software houses should get together and agree on an industry standard memory configuration to which programmers should limit themselves . |
| 28 | And I think the main question , and the best question that could be asked to the audience if they really |
| 29 | Er , I think the main ones really , are on page one o six the final two lines of the first paragraph which says the two vacant blocks now really , there 's four it should just read , and does now read the demolition of the vacant blocks . |
| 30 | There are many themes to the novel but I think the main ones are : ‘ What is a gentleman ? ’ and ‘ How do you find contentment ? ’ . |