Example sentences of "[vb past] the main [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We pushed past the steward , re-crossed the cobbled yard and entered the main palace building . |
| 2 | I found the main control lines and gave them to Esmerelda , showing her how to hold them , and where . |
| 3 | It judged the main discipline problem facing teachers to be not the rare serious incidents of physical aggression , but the cumulative disruptive effects of relatively trivial but persistent misbehaviour . |
| 4 | Several hours later , to the west of Kuwait , the bulk of the allied armoured forces — the US VII Corps and the British 1st Armoured Division — outflanked the main enemy defence line and drove directly into Iraq before wheeling north-east to engage the Republican Guard divisions being held in reserve in northern Kuwait . |
| 5 | For one phase excited the main flux path lies from one stator tooth , across the air-gap into a rotor tooth , directly across the rotor to another rotor tooth/air-gap/stator tooth combination and returns via the back-iron . |
| 6 | Straight after that they played the main Mill team , and again turned out comfortable winners with a 3 . |
| 7 | Jack and Hayter sampled the main east-west road at several points inside the defences , revealing a twofold sequence involving an earlier roadway 9m ( 29½ ft ) wide , with sandstone-lined drains on one or both sides , overlain by an often narrower road with a central open channel . |
| 8 | Then , with headlamps full on , they joined the main tarmacadam coast road . |
| 9 | Branch roads linked the main mining centres , enabling the lead , silver , iron and copper products of the interior to be brought to the coast for export across the Adriatic or , in the case of the Serbian and north Bosnian mines , to be transported to the Danube . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Meg waited until she heard the main bedroom door shut before going herself to the bathroom . |
| 12 | Cursing furiously , Douglas ordered the main keep entrance to be rushed , silence no longer essential . |
| 13 | The regions most badly affected included the main population centres of Upper Silesia , Gdansk , Lodz and Bydgoszcz ; in total one in three Poles lives in such areas . |
| 14 | A plaque on a courtyard wall pays tribute to his defence of the castle , which collapsed only when cannon on loan from Elizabeth devastated the main east front , which later had to be entirely rebuilt . |
| 15 | A large brass rimmed glass bowl in the very centre of the ceiling contained the main light bulb , with six other unshaded bulbs disposed along the edge of the ceiling . |
| 16 | A dispute over the shareholding of a merged company which would have dominated the European aviation scene proved the main stumbling block . |
| 17 | Realising what had happened , he dashed into the smoke-filled engine room with a wet cloth over his head and disconnected the main power cables from the batteries . |
| 18 | the initial explosion put the main power supplies and the control room out of action |
| 19 | As soon as she left the main tourist route it became quieter and darker . |
| 20 | The second station , the Home Service , was more ‘ serious ’ : for example it carried the main news bulletins that naturally attracted huge wartime audiences . |
| 21 | This pinpointed the main problem ara — non-asbestos work resulting in damage to asbestos-containing insulation material . |
| 22 | They raided the main city bakery to dispense scones and cakes to workers at the civic centre . |
| 23 | Although , perhaps it was fortunate in one sense that er it completely destroyed the main machine shop and er it , it all happened over a period of about twenty to twenty five minutes . |
| 24 | In the early morning of Nov. 8 an explosion on the campus of the AUB destroyed the main administration building and damaged a number of others . |
| 25 | Moore ( 1938a ) considered the main spawning period to be winter and spring although egg capsules are to be found throughout the year . |