Example sentences of "they [verb] the main [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they got the main job done and now they want to do the same against Spain next month before heading to Belfast for a party . |
| 2 | The windows were lit by the flames of thousands of beeswax candles and , as they approached the main entrance , they heard faint strains of music , chatter , and the sounds of merriment . |
| 3 | An essential feature of general SVQs is that they preserve the main characteristics of occupational SVQs . |
| 4 | Do they demonstrate the main point of Thomson 's discussion ( i.e. the diverse but inter-connected nature of the revolution ) ? |
| 5 | The trainees ' responses , with guidance , may provide enough sound material for discussion as long as they cover the main points of the text . |
| 6 | They rejected the main tenets of revolutionary Marxism , denied the central role of the proletariat , and dreamed of a peasant-based socialism . |
| 7 | Straight after that they played the main Mill team , and again turned out comfortable winners with a 3 . |
| 8 | Then , with headlamps full on , they joined the main tarmacadam coast road . |
| 9 | Using Pareto analysis , they discovered the main causes of poor productivity and quality . |
| 10 | still there , but they finished the main building |
| 11 | Then they hit the main road and he opened the bike up and for an awful second she thought she was going to slide off the back . |
| 12 | But when they were switched on they blew the main fuses , which deprived them of lighting for the day and taught them why they had to rely on coal fires . |
| 13 | They represented the main category of course provision in the District and provided the major area of growth in student numbers and geographical expansion . |
| 14 | When they reached the main road she pulled him roughly across to where Irish Tom 's van was parked . |
| 15 | He finally managed to light up as they reached the main road , and he blew a sidelong stream of blue smoke behind the Brigadier 's head . |
| 16 | The surface was badly pockmarked and the car bumped and bounced over the uneven thoroughfare , its journey only becoming smoother as they reached the main road that would lead them into Chichester itself . |
| 17 | They reached the main deck , dropping down |
| 18 | When they reached the main gate , the Tamil Tigers shot him and threw his body out on the road . |
| 19 | In addition , more than 300 hotels in Vorarlberg have also become ‘ family orientated ’ , which means they offer the main facilities — if not all — provided by the family specialists . |
| 20 | This upper part of Saint-Jean also has sections of the old ramparts , which are quite tame as these things go and now thoroughly civilian , overlooking as they do the main street or else the minute gardens of the houses of the old quarter . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't know — ’ Maggie yells back as they cross the main road at a run . |
| 22 | The three authors , all former Red Guards ( Li Yi Zhe was their collective pen name ) had been arrested for expressing their radical views in ‘ On Socialist Democracy and the Legal System ’ , although at first Deng Xiaoping and Zhao Ziyang had suggested that they supported the main ideas of the poster . |
| 23 | But then think of Benny coming back from Dublin after a day in the university : would n't it be better if they saved the main meal for her return ? |
| 24 | Now check for damp , ventilation , condensation and for cracks in walls where they join the main building . |
| 25 | The Vasiliki ware included some peculiar long-spouted ‘ teapots ’ and jugs : the spouts have distinctive upturned sides and a curious joint or articulation before they join the main body of the vessel . |
| 26 | Crustaceans , notably copepods , form the bulk of the browsers : euphausiids ( including ‘ krill ’ ) are especially prominent in antarctic waters , where they form the main food of many birds and mammals . |
| 27 | Teresa held her hand as they left the main building by a back door and crunched over the path to the infirmary , Anna dragging her feet . |
| 28 | Now they left the main road for the quieter , dimmer back streets . |
| 29 | At Burford , they left the main road and headed down the sloping High Street . |
| 30 | He had been feeling sick ever since they left the main junction and climbed into the joggling , jolting line train for the last lap of their journey , but the sudden whistle had finished him . |