Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] the front " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can understand the designers ' reasoning , in that the knobs for the front pickup are to the front , and so on , but consciously or subconsciously , guitarists work from the selector switch , and my feeling is that that should point towards the pickup controls currently in use . |
| 2 | Outside , a sizeable iron drive-wheel projects through the front wall . |
| 3 | More complicated was the situation at Queen 's , where designs for the front quad were prepared by Hawksmoor , but the scheme executed by Townesend ( 1710–21 ) appears to have been almost entirely the joint work of himself and Clarke ; while for the new building at Magdalen , the original design by Edward Holdsworth [ q.v. ] was revised by Townesend in 1731 under Clarke 's direction . |
| 4 | We were second again in a non-championship race at Reims , where I indulged in my habit of lurking at corners taking pictures of the front suspension . |
| 5 | McDunn stands talking to some heavily brassed uniformed cops on the steps of the front door . |
| 6 | In the case of the citrus swallowtail caterpillar ( bottom ) there are false eyes near the front end of the body and , just behind the animal 's real head , an organ that looks like the forked tongue of a snake . |
| 7 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 8 | With great discretion , the overcoats in the front pews blew their noses . |
| 9 | But tall bushes in the front garden will allow him to work unseen . |
| 10 | I dressed in black to reduce the chance of being seen and could n't believe my luck when I found that the house opposite his was unoccupied , with big bushes in the front garden that I could hide behind . |
| 11 | She hesitated for only a second or two , then without looking around , she ripped the ties from the front flaps and stepped outside . |
| 12 | On each side of the double flight of steps on the front elevation of the Villa , a statue was erected ; on the one side Palladio and on the other , Inigo Jones ; they are there lo this day . |
| 13 | And then he saw her pass by outside the window , and heard her climbing the steps toward the front door . |
| 14 | Sometimes they would take journalists to the front line ; sometimes they would risk their lives to help reporters . |
| 15 | The intention was to assist drivers on the front few rows , who can spend up to 90 seconds waiting for the rest of the grid to form . |
| 16 | Improved sound information thanks to the front speaker location 100 mm with wide frequency range ; no unnecessary sound annoyance for other customers or the staff in surrounding areas . |
| 17 | Becker and Graf won Wimbledon and the US Open and did not get their pictures on the front cover of any non-tennis magazines here . ’ |
| 18 | If your pattern is going to show on the back bed side of the fabric you will need to reverse the instructions , having the pushers on the front bed . |
| 19 | The Headmaster muttered to himself as he led Endill up the flight of steps to the front door of the school . |
| 20 | He mounted the five steps to the front door and rang the bell . |
| 21 | We climbed a short flight of steps to the front door . |
| 22 | The Fitzgeralds had never known their neighbours very well , partly because Magdalen Street was wide , with houses set back behind small gardens and with steps to the front door , and partly because their big family made them self-sufficient . |
| 23 | Although it was dark and the road twisted away in both directions , the undertaker had stood still and listened for several seconds before venturing up the steps to the front door . |
| 24 | But as she mounted the first of the steps to the front door she sensed someone close to her . |
| 25 | She mounted the steps to the front door of the house and stood looking for the right bell to ring . |
| 26 | I sometimes stand there in the darkness for a moment , watching them , putting off the moment when I walk up the five tessellated steps to the front door . |
| 27 | I stopped in the lane for a moment , as I often do , before I climbed the steps to the front door , and looked in through the windows . |
| 28 | She pulled up outside a large Victorian house , collected her case , and walked smilingly up the steps to the front door . |
| 29 | ‘ We were genuinely worried we were going to get 200,000 kids outside the front door , she 's becoming so popular . ’ |
| 30 | And they 're the begonias on the front patch . |