Example sentences of "on [prep] the main [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She watched him ride on , past the lilacs , past the green door and on towards the main gate to the farmyard . |
| 2 | Fraser , impatient at so inactive a role , persuaded the Regent to relieve him and appoint a replacement Deputy Warden , and now rode on with the main cavalry host . |
| 3 | It does so by going to a series of intermediate goals , for example the junction of the branch it is on with the main stem . |
| 4 | On the safety front , the water is thermostatically controlled , the sliding door and panel are glazed with safety glass and ceiling and basin lights come on with the main switch . |
| 5 | Learn to see what follows on from the main ideas as a kind of proof . |
| 6 | They are just as important though as what goes on in the main body of the conference centre . |
| 7 | The daily conference over , it 's on to the main activity of the day for me , which is a Long Northwind Patrol . |
| 8 | It becomes important for the counsellor to move on to the main reasons for the meeting , and to begin the process as openly and honestly as possible . |
| 9 | The friar then made his way back on to the main highway , past the Priory of St Mary Overy and across London Bridge . |
| 10 | For those who wish to take a car close and then walk to the top of the hill without too much difficulty , take the A836 to Loch Loyal near Lettermore and climb straight into the corrie Loch Na Creige Riabhaich and on to the main summits . |
| 11 | I ran to the T-junction on to the main road . |
| 12 | He fell silent as he wrestled the van round a corner and on to the main road . |
| 13 | Driving with difficulty through torrential rain while thunder and lightning crashed overhead , Jack found himself in a narrow West Country lane , realising that he had missed the turning that would have brought him back on to the main road . |
| 14 | The court was told she had ignored a Give Way sign at a junction and had driven on to the main road at about 40 mph . |
| 15 | On to the main road , which runs through the island and , apart from the sheep eking out a sparse living on the dead heather , there is little moving until I come to the head of Whalfirth , a long arm of the sea which pushes in from the west until it nearly cuts the island in half . |
| 16 | But er we used to bring these tubs then down from there on to the main road where the rope , the haulage rope travelled you see ? |
| 17 | No transporting it on to the main road so they can took took it to the pit bot . |
| 18 | Carefully he began to follow it out on to the main road . |
| 19 | Besides , Adam had said it was a long detour to get back on to the main road , if this lane was cut off . |
| 20 | Then , when they turned out on to the main road , Luke overtook her with an authoritative toot . |
| 21 | The lorry rolled down the lane and on to the main road . |
| 22 | He slid the car into gear and edged out on to the main road , waiting until he had overtaken a pair of cyclists before replying . |
| 23 | Strange that David should be coming along at that very moment that she 'd emerged on to the main road . |
| 24 | Rachel walked out on to the main road a few minutes later feeling overwhelmed with guilt . |
| 25 | Rachel said bitterly as they shot on to the main road . |
| 26 | If we move on to the main agenda . |
| 27 | The base tray is as deep as the corpse is high , the head section having been fashioned from a separate sheet of lead and soldered on to the main body of the shell . |
| 28 | The boarding annexe at Burleigh was an unlovely square built on to the main house in the nineteen-twenties-it was the cause , in fact , of the original owner going bankrupt and being forced to forsake the licensed trade . |
| 29 | However , as soon as it begins to accelerate smoothly , that movement is no longer necessary , and the control should be moved to get the glider balanced nicely on to the main wheel . |
| 30 | He turned abruptly away and Willie followed him up the lane and back on to the main street . |