Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the front " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he grew beautiful flowers for competition in his tiny greenhouse on the allotment , he was content for the front garden to consist of a small shaved lawn and empty flower bed with two statutory rose bushes and a border of tedious alyssum . |
| 2 | This wall was matchboarded to the ceiling , the other three having wainscoting similar to the front room , oak grained , as were the doors . |
| 3 | One of Beecher 's favourite oratorical gimmicks , which he used to great effect in England , was to lean down from the dais to tell a humorous story but only audible to the front row . |
| 4 | The upside is that getting in and out is made simple by the front seats sliding well forwards . |
| 5 | Unlike him I have always found the little odds and ends Sellotaped to the front cover both interesting and useful . |
| 6 | To date , the fuselage , rudder and rear wing are complete with the front wing well underway . |
| 7 | He secured two admission tickets but when he arrived he found they were only good for the front doors where ‘ already hundreds were waiting ’ . |
| 8 | Then he noticed an open gate and beyond it a side door which he approached ; here he was told that his tickets were only good for the front door while the side doors were reserved for members . |
| 9 | It was at this moment that there arrived at AFHQ a " personal " and " urgent " signal for Alexander from Gen McCreery , the Commander of Eighth Army , whose 13 Corps and 5 Corps were directly involved in the front line in North-East Italy and Austria . |
| 10 | Most of the works , which had no reserves , were bought by private collectors for figures up to 70% below what Lesieutre — stoically present on the front row — had paid for them when the art market was booming . |
| 11 | My hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence Procurement is present on the Front Bench and will have noted what my hon. Friend has said . |
| 12 | It took an historic 53 days to get the Bill through Committee , under the expert chairmanship of my hon. Friend the Member for Tatton ( Mr. Hamilton ) , who was present on the Front Bench today . |
| 13 | She inserted her key as quietly as possible in the front door of the house where she had a room and crept upstairs . |
| 14 | The place was empty , but for a cloak-shrouded figure bent over a rosary to the right of the door , and a man sitting alone in the front row . |
| 15 | I ask Crilly and Anita , who sit erect in the front seat , like adults . |
| 16 | He 's now heavy on the front brake , while his right foot strokes the rear brake lever . |
| 17 | Picture is so gross on the front page as well |
| 18 | In fact , the input and headphone sockets are neatly recessed so they 're almost flush with the front panel , which is a neat way of finishing them off and I wish more companies would look at ideas like this . |
| 19 | An Orrell scrum of Hynes , Hitchen , Southern in the front row and Manley , Ashurst and Gallagher at 6 , 7 and 8 , would suggest a busy afternoon for Messrs Probyn and company opposite . |
| 20 | It was very peaceful in the front hall of Hoggatt 's at eight-forty in the morning . |
| 21 | This seems to have affected the fate of Frederic , Lord Leighton 's ‘ Sibyl ’ , bought-in at £145,000 against an estimate of £180–250,000 at Sotheby 's and previously sold at Christie 's in 1987 for £250,000 ; Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema 's ‘ A Sculptor 's Model ( Venus Esquilina ) ’ bought-in at £150,000 against an estimate of £200–300,000 at Christie 's , consigned by a Japanese corporation but familiar from the front window of a London gallery within very close proximity of Christie 's ; and John Roddam Spencer Stanhope 's lovely ‘ Our Lady of the Water Gate , ’ bought-in at £55,000 against an estimate of £80–120,000 at Christie 's , having previously been offered privately for around £180,000 . |
| 22 | John unwashed and unshaved on the front delegate , on the front . |
| 23 | To deal with the new strategic requirements for success , all the tools to induce and support action-taking must be available at the front line . |
| 24 | There had always been more in common between the front benches than either had in common with their followers in the country . |
| 25 | When the drawer is pulled out , it brings the hidden columns supporting the five car bays level with the front base of the house . |
| 26 | So we got bingo , we 've got the word naked on the front page , she 's dead crafty this girl . |
| 27 | His eyes kept looking away over one of my shoulders or the other , never meeting my gaze , and I got the impression that like his wife he was constantly waiting for something important to happen , expecting someone to arrive at any moment , as though they both could n't believe what had happened and it was all a dream or a ghastly joke and they were just waiting for Clare to come gangling through the front door , kicking off muddy green wellies and loudly demanding tea . |
| 28 | She moved quickly but cautiously down the stairs and stood close to the front door , edging towards the spy-hole , squinting through it . |
| 29 | But Jack had only one thought as he and Tina ran down the broken tarmac of the estate road , finally arriving breathless at the front door of the Shepherd 's house . |
| 30 | At two thirty precisely the following afternoon , Murphy and the carriage and the stout , gleaming pair of bays were ready before the front door . |