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 . |