Example sentences of "in front [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It was Buddy Melges , however , who steered in front at the first cross after the start , having been lifted into a handsome lead by the first shift , and stayed there .
2 Knox made a desperate bid to get in front at the last corner but Martin held his line and emerged the winner .
3 A break of 83 put him in front for the first time adding a 70 clearance in the sixth after Wattana led 58-0 .
4 Are we going to have er , erm , are we going to have some kind of reporting system , so that if a hunt actually enters erm , one of our fields , we 're going to start denouncing tenants and have them hauled up in front of a disciplinary committee ? .
5 On March 1 the Libyan Secretary for Foreign Affairs , Ibrahim Bishari , said after a meeting in Cairo with the Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev that Libya " is ready to hand over the two suspects for trial in front of a neutral court in any neutral country " .
6 Squealing mice seemed bedded in my ears , and green hoppity things abounded , but right smack in my mind 's eye were two teams of digitised Ice Hockey players fighting it out in front of a packed stadium .
7 When the 15 men from no fewer than eight countries run out in front of a packed house for the 111th Bowring Varsity match at Twickenham today ( tues ) you 'd be forgiven for thinking you were watching some sort of world invitation XV taking on Cambridge .
8 They make the ball do the work and there 's not many teams who 'll dare go at Newcastle in front of a packed house at St James ' Park .
9 Sad Michael , who died of liver cancer at 27 , was lashed with leather thongs in front of a packed audience at a West End Theatre just two days before joining the show .
10 WYCOMBE took advantage of Colchester 's involvement in the Trophy to draw level with the Conference leaders on 75 points , thanks to a 3–1 victory in front of a 2,236 crowd at Farnborough .
11 A TRAVELLER jumped in front of a speeding train mid-way through a conversation with a fellow passenger .
12 had to throw myself in front of a speeding car !
13 Its amazing the number of computer users that pick up a pen or pencil to take a telephone message when they 're sitting in front of a working PC !
14 First , the banning of imports might land the Labour Government in the future in front of a European court and , secondly of course , if the Labour Government attempted to use their 40 per cent .
15 It 's a bit stupid to have all this in front of a bloody radiator in n it ?
16 Sit in front of a good light when making-up .
17 I was welcomed in through the front door almost before it was opened , and settled down in front of a Victorian stove that was brimming with hot coals .
18 They consisted of an elaborate sequence of libations poured into a large vessel on an altar between two double-axes mounted on painted pyramidal bases ; grave-goods were dedicated to the sheepskin-draped statue of a god in front of another altar ; offerings of food and drink were dedicated at a third altar set up in front of a sacred tree shrine ; music was played and an ox and two goats were sacrificed .
19 Lewis will meet either champion Evander Holyfield or Riddick Bowe before the end of April by virtue of his devastating final eliminator victory in front of a 12,000 crowd .
20 ‘ I remember that she was standing in front of a blue backdrop and her eyes were so blue I thought I could see the back of her head , ’ Bailey recalls .
21 She turned the handle of the spit when the Algerian gigots were roasted , larded with garlic and anchovies , in a kind of oval cage of iron slats in front of a hot fire of vine-stumps inside the huge hearth ; she sat on a bench inside the cheminée , turning the ratchet as it wound down , basting the lamb with oil and its own juices from a diabolical long spoon .
22 Or is it to be videoed in front of a live audience with the risk of loosing some of the dialogue ?
23 After submitting a sample of their photographic work , finalists had 30 minutes to recreate that look in front of a live audience at the show .
24 One day both parents accompanied me to a fund-raising luncheon at the Savoy , an afternoon rehearsal , tea at the house of an old friend in Twickenham by the river , the recording of a TV show in which I appeared in front of a live audience , and supper in a lovely restaurant with the cast .
25 The programme was filmed in front of a live audience who had to clap , laugh and commiserate in all the appropriate places .
26 Thus , in front of a still life by Chardin or Courbet , for example , one can say that one object must be separated from another behind it by so many inches , and so on .
27 They stood in front of a blazing log-fire before they parted .
28 They were relaxing in front of a blazing fire when the door of the bar burst open and a local appeared : ‘ Listen , ’ he announced .
29 Furnished with a squashy sofa , tartan throws and embroidered scatter cushions , this is where everybody sprawls in front of a blazing fire to watch TV .
30 It had been a short honeymoon : one night in front of a two-way mirror .
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