Example sentences of "back to the main [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But if we could grasp some of these small particular uses we might be able to follow them back to the main river .
2 Finally he drove back to the main road .
3 He was in such a state that I literally had to drag him back to the main road .
4 For a short run , I usually end at Westsandwick , taking the loop road through the township and back to the main road .
5 Monica had drifted half-way back to the main road , apparently expecting Alice not to reappear .
6 On our way back to the main road , at the end of the day we persuaded the reluctant Halim to investigate with us the loud festivities issuing from an isolated group of stilt houses .
7 The road would be turning east soon , and taking them back to the main road so that they could turn south and walk back to the house .
8 It could n't go forward , but reversed slowly down the lane , turned around in a field gateway and headed back to the main road .
9 ‘ I remember getting in the car and driving through the village back to the main road … but … nothing else . ’
10 The box at Marske-in-Swaledale , which turns its blank stainless steel back to the main road , is a particularly sore thumb .
11 We turn back to the main strip .
12 This time Endill drew him a map and pointed out the quickest route back to the main corridor .
13 Since a van service , operating at fixed times , transports call-slips to the Annexe in batches , and brings the items requested back to the Main Building in batches , the time taken for straightforward deliveries of outhoused publications depends entirely on the time at which the request is submitted .
14 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 .
15 So it was maybe a half-hour before I go back to the main adobe .
16 Double-click on a blank area of the screen , then select the tick to get back to the main menu .
17 In a kind of rush I went back to the main menu .
18 After each call to a PI routine , simply pressing the Return key reverts you back to the main menu from which another PI routine may be called or you may exit by entering 0 .
19 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 .
20 But then they 'd still presumably report back to the main group about what they 'd been doing .
21 The Chieftain attribute identifies the lexicographer who is permitted to approve the transfer of material back to the main archive , and to reallocate ‘ ownership ’ of bundles of entries .
22 Burns waved cheerfully to him and walked back to the main entrance .
23 I wandered back to the main entrance of the chateau and found Benjamin , equally disconsolate , sitting on the steps .
24 Note that only some of the additional text rows created by lexicographic activity in the Working-Set are copied back to the Main Database .
25 However , he continued to hold her hand on the walk back to the main track , where he again drew her close to his side while taking her arm .
26 Let us get back to the main argument .
27 But back to the main theme .
28 Now , er , now back to the main theme , which is that you 've become more business-like , in every sense of the word .
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