Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] the main " in BNC.
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| 1 | Touching down on the main wheels first , the Ercoupe twitched into line ; they even tried it with the rudder pedals locked , flying on elevator and aileron only , but found the feeling ‘ rather disconcerting ’ ! |
| 2 | We had crowd-flow blockages , insufficient refreshment facilities , no VIP entrance , no security check until people were in the main auditorium , and no way to get backstage except by walking right through the main meeting , up the stairs onto the stage and out through the back — with everybody watching ! |
| 3 | Has the building been changed from the original by additions and alterations , and are these cracking away from the main building ? |
| 4 | Walking up from the main road we passed the camel drivers squatting round their early morning fires . |
| 5 | Many farm workers recognize this as an unavoidable aspect of living away from the main centres of industry , and while they may occasionally recognize the limitations which are imposed upon their freedom to choose both employment and housing , they are not necessarily embittered by it . |
| 6 | Yet anyone who cocked an ear to their self-titled debut EP earlier this year will have been impressed by how un-English it was , both in its rough-hewn melancholic tangle — most obviously echoing both Buffalo Tom and the N-band , though not actually resembling either — and the absence of what has now become the standard English guitar-band attitude : jumped-up barrow boys jostling those same old post-punk moves , all looking out for the main chance and a quick route to the charts . |
| 7 | He knew the feel of every cold stone step on the wide staircase leading down to the main hall . |
| 8 | Delaney stood , watching the hatch close up , with the last view of the car headlights turning away towards the main building and the control tower . |
| 9 | Marie had no time to think about Bella 's story : the little queue surged forward and they found themselves inside the double doors in a short corridor leading through to the main ward . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | The place that Fenella thought might be a fuelhouse was a small , added-on section , jutting out from the main body of the Workshops . |
| 12 | Fenella remembered the houses on Renascia and how they had nearly always had sculleries and washing houses jutting out from the main rooms . |
| 13 | The idea hit her like a thunderbolt and she spun round , heading back towards the main entrance , remembering that there was an enquiries desk there . |
| 14 | There the caterpillar first cuts all the leaf veins leading back to the main stalk before settling in for a dinner which it hopes can not then be communicated to the neighbouring leaves . |
| 15 | There were still several boys , waiting for their lifts home , and a number of cars were pulling out of the main gates . |
| 16 | The Rifleman brushed aside their questions , going instead to the main staircase which led down into the brightly lit chaos of the entrance hall where a throng of officers demanded their horses or carriages . |
| 17 | As soon as they were out of the traffic and heading northwards up the main Al trunk road , Madeleine snuggled closer to Harry . |
| 18 | You can compensate for using more time working a really special border and so on by speeding up on the main sections . |
| 19 | But all that was happening was , the overflow pipe from the Koi quarters was partially blocked : this meant that an abnormally high head of water was building up in the main pool , bringing the level above the sealed junction between liner and blockwork . |
| 20 | Simmons 's rooms were next to the staircase , not , as she had hoped , overlooking the quadrangle , but facing away from the main college building . |
| 21 | ‘ We 're getting away from the main subject . |
| 22 | Moving away from the main season reduces the chances of a windy afternoon . |
| 23 | Tithonus creates a sense of emotional anguish by Tennyson 's use of inversion between lines five and six , ‘ Me only cruel immortality/consumes ’ : This breaking up of the main image of the poem suggests that Tithonus has been captured by immortality . |
| 24 | Moving carefully into the main reason for the meeting is a crucial skill . |
| 25 | This has the advantage of making the program more understandable by putting the details " open at end " coding out of the main flow of the program . |
| 26 | I look forward to the day , in a few months ' time , when my right hon. Friend the Member for Islwyn ( Mr. Kinnock ) will be getting back into the main stream of that debate and participating fully in the European Community for the benefit of all our citizens . |
| 27 | He said nothing until the machine was ready for take-off , moving forward to the main runway . |
| 28 | However , over the years this has been augmented by dwellings branching out from the main road . |
| 29 | She had been waiting on Dreadnought to watch the water coming in through the main leak . |
| 30 | Inserts are a useful means of cutting away from the main subject to some subsidiary action while keeping the original sound going under the insert . |