Example sentences of "be [v-ing] at the front [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | RICHARD and EMMA are standing at the front door of a rambling , untidy , Edwardian Mansion . |
| 2 | As she had come round the corner of the house from putting her bicycle in the old stable block , Inspector Blakelock had been standing at the front door almost as if he were waiting for her . |
| 3 | A tradesman who has been ringing at the front door for several minutes gives up and goes away . |
| 4 | Mme Guérigny was standing at the front door , her head pushed back , shouting up to the attic window for Jean-Claude . |
| 5 | A detective-constable was standing at the front door with the detached watchfulness of a man paid to endure boredom but ready to leap into action should , unaccountably , the boredom end . |
| 6 | She was standing at the front edge of the stage with the microphone hanging from one limp hand by the outside of her right thigh . |