Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [prep] [art] main [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | We stood eyeing each other for a few minutes and then to my amazement a jeep came up ; the farmer saw my problem and not only gave me a lift past the bull but took me right to the main road where the bike was . |
| 2 | But if I can move on just for a second , erm when you get over and above that , we have problems where people that are purchasing those sort of vehicles can not afford , with the best will in the world , to take them in to the main agents and have a full service , although they should do , but if you ca n't afford to do that and these are the problems that we had , so we actually changed that . |
| 3 | A burly serjeant-of-arms stopped them , asked their business , and grudgingly let them through into the main courtyard where they were halted by a steward who took them up into the main hall . |
| 4 | And we 'd shut them out shunt them out and then we 'd collect the two coaches and take them over to the main yard , and put them under a cleaning platform you see for the cleaners . |
| 5 | How wrong of you to bring me away from the main road ! |
| 6 | A servant took Benjamin and me off into the main hall , past the great chamber where meals were served , and up a spiral staircase to the third floor above the solar . |
| 7 | and that brings you up onto the main Belfast road |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A burly serjeant-of-arms stopped them , asked their business , and grudgingly let them through into the main courtyard where they were halted by a steward who took them up into the main hall . |
| 10 | Adam sat at his usual lunchtime table in the Savoy Grill the one discreetly opposite the main entrance , so that without seeming to do so , he saw everyone who entered the restaurant . |
| 11 | This writer would certainly have preferred the option for moving everything out of the main glen , but the fact that the centre is now seen as being a mistake is encouraging and the partial solution is vastly better than the centre being a rapidly-growing monster . |
| 12 | These documents , I mean it deals with ev everything apart from the main things about |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But if we could grasp some of these small particular uses we might be able to follow them back to the main river . |
| 15 | Snorting at the friar 's apparent stupidity , Cranston turned his horse and led them out of the main alleyways of Southwark . |
| 16 | And then , as the escalator carried him up into the main concourse of the station , they 'd have seen the spark returning almost like the glow of a neon tube being borne up into a powerful field of energy . |
| 17 | He was in such a state that I literally had to drag him back to the main road . |
| 18 | We are restricted somewhat by time , because I want to get everybody back in the main auditorium to listen to what I know is going to be a fantastic lecture by Professor Don , er from Baltimore , which I would certainly recommend that everybody go and see . |
| 19 | Corbett wanted to leave Kinghorn quickly before the captain or Alexander began to question him , so , once he had finished his meal , he went to the stable and , saddling the garron , led him out towards the main gate . |
| 20 | One of the monstrous hounds had followed her out of the main house and now pressed close to her legs . |
| 21 | But a bridge ( ‘ Residents Only ’ ) led him across to the main channel of the Cherwell , where the water was still flowing fairly swiftly after the week 's earlier rains , and where pieces of debris were intermittently knocking into the sides of the banks , and then turning and twisting , first one way then the other , like dodgem cars at the fun-fair . |
| 22 | No transporting it on to the main road so they can took took it to the pit bot . |
| 23 | Well we can do it downstairs from the main system or something |
| 24 | Choose a sideshoot of the current year 's growth that is hardening at the base , then tear it away from the main stem with a sliver of wood . |
| 25 | He made a radio receiver when we were children and set it up on the main bridge over the Salzach . |
| 26 | For finer work the 88 handpiece is available in two versions ; the more expensive using a spring connector to hinge it mid-way from the main connector . |
| 27 | This led Ludendorff o counter-order Francois ’ great northeastward thrust and turn it closer to the main body of the German army in readiness for a possible battle . |
| 28 | The SDI gearbox will not fit directly into a SIII but may be fitted with the transfer box conversion as supplied by Ian Ashcroft 0582 761081 or by converting your transfer box and mounting it remotely behind the main gearbox . |
| 29 | They took us back into the main passageway , past the hall and into a small chamber where Gavin Douglas , Earl of Angus , whom I had glimpsed during the banquet , now lounged in a chair . |
| 30 | The fellow 's resistance collapsed like a house of cards ; bowing and mumbling apologies , he led us out of the main palace building , across a deserted cobbled yard to a small tower built in the far wall of the palace . |