Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] 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 | Unlike its predecessors , Warrior is capable of keeping up with a Main Battle Tank across country |
| 3 | Walking up from the main road we passed the camel drivers squatting round their early morning fires . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This year the charity to benefit will be the Newborn Appeal , although the organising Speke 10k Committee are still looking around for a main sponsor for the event . |
| 6 | He knew the feel of every cold stone step on the wide staircase leading down to the main hall . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | The place that Fenella thought might be a fuelhouse was a small , added-on section , jutting out from the main body of the Workshops . |
| 10 | Fenella remembered the houses on Renascia and how they had nearly always had sculleries and washing houses jutting out from the main rooms . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There were still several boys , waiting for their lifts home , and a number of cars were pulling out of the main gates . |
| 14 | You can compensate for using more time working a really special border and so on by speeding up on the main sections . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | However , over the years this has been augmented by dwellings branching out from the main road . |
| 20 | Er a number of and there 's a further example which I have written to the County Senior Safety Officer about er where there is a halt pedestrians coming on to a main road where a number of vehicles er bounce the pavements to get round traffic turning right at the junction . |
| 21 | She had been waiting on Dreadnought to watch the water coming in through the main leak . |
| 22 | The train that leaves Montreal comprises only a couple of day coaches , linking up with the main service 10 hours later at the junction town of Sudbury , Ontario . |
| 23 | Their running was impeded by the mass of men coming out of the main doors and scattering in all directions , and heads down , they made their way between them to the back of the Naafi and into the rest room , which was empty ; and they were just in the process of taking off their wet top coats when the supervisor came in , saying , ‘ Oh , I 'm in luck ; I was about to send to the hut for help . |
| 24 | Coming out into the main channel , we made a wide U-turn and headed upriver . |
| 25 | On , a strange dog was seen running out through the main gate with aforementioned chicken in his mouth and a packet of Paxo around his neck ! |
| 26 | Following her normal routine , she had changed out of her show glitter back into a long and relatively modest black evening dress before slipping back into the main section of the club . |
| 27 | However , such activities at best brought some credit to the NSV itself , with little rubbing off onto the main organization , the NSDAP . |
| 28 | Standing back from the main road , surrounded by green grass , was the memorial to those men of the village and the surrounding hamlets who had died during the Great War , and behind the memorial was the primary school which I was going to join in the course of the next few days . |
| 29 | It was virtually a hundred-and-eighty-degree turn and very sharp , the culvert blocked with stone and the remains of a small tree , so that the full volume of the water coming down the gully was swirling across the track to disappear over the edge , thundering down into the main gorge of the Jequetepeque . |
| 30 | 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 . |