Example sentences of "his [noun sg] to the front [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most moving pictures printed in L'Illustration during the war was of one of these unhappy cuistots crawling on his stomach to the front at Verdun , with flasks of wine lashed to his belt . |
| 2 | A father who elbows his way to the front of a queue , dragging his toddler behind him , is likely to produce the sort of child who pushes others out of the way to grab the best cakes . |
| 3 | He had returned to the car , after having pushed his way to the front of the queue shamelessly brandishing his police warrant-card , with the fish in a rolled-up newspaper . |
| 4 | Jinkwa pushed his way to the front of the party and nudged the Doctor none too gently . |
| 5 | Maggie gave him a nudge as a rather flustered man pushed his way to the front of the people waiting and held up a placard — ‘ Señorita Howard ’ . |
| 6 | Despite the reservations of his trainer he next went for the Melbourne Cup : he started even-money favourite , but pulled his way to the front in a slowly run race against the wishes of his jockey and faded in the straight to finish third . |