Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] front of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She glanced at the girl standing eagerly in front of her . |
| 2 | Do you play better in front of close family ? |
| 3 | He must have closed his eyes because the priest was suddenly in front of him . |
| 4 | They had not gone very far when a great brightness showed over the mountains beyond the forest , and suddenly in front of them they saw a beautiful young man , all dressed in gold , with a scarlet lining to his cloak . |
| 5 | The barber sat on the railings while his customers stood patiently in front of him to have their heads shaved . |
| 6 | Alternately raise each arm outwards in front of you until horizontal and then slowly lower , keeping the arms straight at all times . |
| 7 | Some horses also like to tease us , to irritate us with trivial annoyances — and especially in front of an audience . |
| 8 | Yanto , who would do anything for anybody who asked him nicely , also had a very short fuse when it came to insults , especially in front of witnesses . |
| 9 | One horseman revealed that he could jade a horse standing , say , on the sandy apron outside an Inn simply by walking round him and unobtrusively dropping one of the obnoxious powders in the sand , especially in front of him : ‘ You did n't have to touch the horse , but that would stop him . ’ |
| 10 | Especially in front of other young men . |
| 11 | Moran ate alone in front of the big sideboard mirror , waited on apprehensively by the girls . |
| 12 | Everyone loves a solo break , one person alone in front of the field . |
| 13 | The Princess of Wales makes a solo visit to Egypt where she is pictured alone in front of the pyramids . |
| 14 | Behind , or perhaps in front of , all the ideals and theories there was a sound technical base which , under Bernard 's tutelage , was also entering a phase of significant growth . |
| 15 | ‘ This is n't your turf , is it ? ’ he asked , checking his change carefully and obviously in front of the barman . |
| 16 | Parkinson agreed , but considered it disloyal of Merryfield to say so in front of outsiders . |
| 17 | ‘ They say the king 's left Welshpool with a small escort ahead of the army , ’ volunteered a boy a yard or so in front of them , turning an excited face . |
| 18 | Malpass had made it across the street , about eighty feet or so in front of Armstrong . |
| 19 | Place your palms together in front of you , fingers pointing in opposite directions . |
| 20 | As we sat together in front of the Sheikha 's areesh the conversation began to move back and forth , gathering speed and laughter . |
| 21 | Anna and Isobel , finding themselves together in front of a bright watercolour of a Cornish harbour painted by Archdeacon Neville on one of his walking holidays , fell into conversation . |
| 22 | The oriental did not flinch , but merely drew the two youngsters close together in front of him , effectively shielding himself by placing them between himself and the killing arc of the shotgun 's blast . |
| 23 | Albert clasped his hands together in front of his chest and looked suitably forlorn . |
| 24 | One winter night , as the mutt twitched away in front of the fire , his mind somewhere between Basingstoke and the twilight zone , a 100-watt light bulb in the standard lamp above his head suddenly exploded without warning ! |
| 25 | When everything had seemed to be sorting itself out , when the way ahead seemed , for the first time in ages , to be solid under her feet , Marie felt the path crumbling away in front of her . |
| 26 | Despite my appeals to postpone the match , things kept bashing away in front of me . |
| 27 | The ridged pasture was falling away in front of Sharpe , sloping down to a long dark oak wood from which a cart track ran north towards a big stone-walled farm that looked like a miniature fort . |
| 28 | The airlock doors stretched away in front of her , sloping slightly upwards , like a smooth square clearing in the midst of undergrowth . |
| 29 | Wheeling her bicycle out of the school for the ( official ) last time she saw Frederica striding away in front of her , past the still unlevelled Bomb Crater , bearing a satchel , a large paper parcel , two shoe bags and a paper carrier . |
| 30 | Then he rode away in front of me , into the dark . |