Example sentences of "front of [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She saw the scene in front of her through a mist . |
| 2 | Nothing , though , would induce her to sit in such close proximity , and she pretended she had n't seen it until the man in the white jacket swiftly replaced everything in front of her without a word . |
| 3 | Rosa had been crying then , with the pieces of the plate her mother had tried to smash over her head in front of her at the table , and her mother had put the back of her hand to her daughter 's cheek , as if to test her for fever . |
| 4 | Iris was staring in front of her with a set expression , making no response . |
| 5 | She stretched her arms out in front of her like a cat , proving that Springsteen was still behind on points . |
| 6 | Felipe stood in front of her like a lion-tamer , a whip in his hand with the thong coiled out of the way , and for a second Maggie felt a wave of fear . |
| 7 | Twenty-six-year-old Yasmin says it took about a year and a great deal of hard work to get her figure back into shape , so she knows she 'll have a hard task in front of her after the birth of her second baby . |
| 8 | At one point in 1987 I was bowling up the M6 talking to a colleague in London on my ‘ hands-off ’ Cellnet phone — it had a microphone in front of me on the visor . |
| 9 | P. E. A man dropped dead in front of me on the street and I took him to the mortuary and I got into trouble over it because I did n't search the body properly . |
| 10 | I 'm happy to cruise along in traffic on the road but when there is someone in front of me on the track , I become quite mad . |
| 11 | I see myself putting it down on the table in front of me at the Assessment Group and the papers slipping loose … |
| 12 | Here is a description of a canvas which is in front of me at the moment . |
| 13 | rights of erm fire so many people in front of me at the moment I . |
| 14 | ‘ Kerry was in front of me at the start and I went past her on the second mile , ’ she said . |
| 15 | If this is the best Europe has to offer , Hollywood 's producers will be sleeping more soundly than the old lady who sat in front of me during the screening . |
| 16 | He was stood in front of me in the sandwich queue the other day and . |
| 17 | As Stella says : ‘ There 's a load of people in front of me in the queue for jobs , is n't there ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ As I came to a junction , a car pulled out in front of me from a road on the left . |
| 19 | They came in to land in a snowscape , the lights along the thin ribbon of recently cleared runway coming into view and stretching out in front of them as the Seneca descended on its final approach . |
| 20 | Everyone stands at one end of the room with their eggs in front of them on the floor . |
| 21 | The Ferghana party secretary was shot and slightly wounded when he tried to address a crowd ; and 5,000 men armed with automatic rifles and pistols were reported to have stormed party and government buildings in the ancient city of Kokand ( if Izvestiya 's report was to be believed , they carried a portrait of Lenin in front of them with a message written on the back of it which called for the slaughter of all Turks and Russians and ended ‘ Long live the Islamic republic and Ayatollah Khomeini ’ ) . |
| 22 | They continued on along the line of booths , each with its owner sitting on the counter among his stained , dirty jars like some vast black spider , past the long , carpet-covered benches in front of them with the rows of men drinking coffee and smoking and talking , past the assorted smells of rose and jasmine , amber and banana , past the odd little restaurants with their grand brass jugs of hot water , their servants hurrying with coffee in glasses to some merchant about to strike a deal , past all this and then suddenly through the arch of the Bab es Zuweyla with its two soaring and fantastic minarets and out once more into the Tentmakers ' Bazaar with its donkey-saddles of red brocade and its camel-trappings adorned with cowries and little bits of looking-glass , its gaily-striped awnings and brilliant tent linings . |
| 23 | He walked back from the shop and the plate of meat and potatoes was put in front of him with a regularity that would have pleased an army officer . |
| 24 | Peter Blake turned up from Gravesend for his interview after a recent accident : whilst bicycling at night a man had suddenly crossed in front of him with a pram , causing Blake to land on his face on a newly made road . |
| 25 | Then he closed the white file in front of him with a snap . |
| 26 | Trevino is all teed-up and in the process of taking his club back when a guy comes out of the crowd in front of him with a camera on his shoulder and walks right across the fairway . |
| 27 | Then the patient 's arms are placed on a table in front of him with the hands flat and fingers spread open . |
| 28 | He held his spear gun out in front of him with the safety off and used his flippers to keep facing the fish . |
| 29 | Paul is standing in front of him with an envelope . |
| 30 | The three of them had come back down the tunnel to the entrance , with the man pushing Nona in front of him as a hostage . |