Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] front of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neaten shoulder seam allowances together and press towards front of sleeve ( 1 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Is it all right if I nip in front of you ? ’ |
| 3 | The chefs cook in front of customers , and you can make your own pizzas . |
| 4 | They may stay in bed to all hours , slump in front of the television and expect to be waited on hand , foot and finger . |
| 5 | We find little solace at home but go out again in search of mass entertainment or slump in front of the television , seeking not to think but to forget . |
| 6 | I squat in front of him and let the water ride up to my armpits . |
| 7 | Miss Taylor , I 've always wanted to ask you — what do you have to think of to make yourself cry in front of the camera ? |
| 8 | The Man 's model pop puppets pose in front of the model ( global ) village |
| 9 | The Australians have had to be content with the second favourites slot in front of their home crowd . |
| 10 | Tibetan refugees protest in front of the Chinese embassy in New Delhi against a visit to India by Wu Xueqian , a Chinese Vice-Premier attending talks about the Indo-Chinese border |
| 11 | They cross roads diagonally , walk in front of parked cars and forget to look in more than one direction at junctions . |
| 12 | I saw my husband die in front of my eyes . |
| 13 | Suddenly it 's light , clear as day ; we stop in front of a German 3″ mortar with a neat pile of HE bombs beside it . |
| 14 | I stop in front of the shop and look inside with my forehead sort of pressed against the glass . |
| 15 | If they do happen to pick up the wrong isomer erm , these isomers by the way , you 'll find things put in front of them like you often find a little d or a little l in front of the name it means dextarosatory rotated to the right and leverosatory |
| 16 | Perhaps the best way of tricking readers into seeing but not seeing what you put in front of them is by stating your fact in a way that seems clearly to be doing so for a different purpose than that of playing the game . |
| 17 | I remember going to 's school , and er they put in front of us , I were very young , put in front of us a lot of s colours , cottons . |
| 18 | I remember going to 's school , and er they put in front of us , I were very young , put in front of us a lot of s colours , cottons . |
| 19 | ‘ We put in front of them a project to do The Servant of Two Masters in the coming autumn . |
| 20 | The more we deepen — to use the jargon — the Community , the more obstacles we put in front of eastern Europe . |
| 21 | All the sounds of the valley end here in my room , and the women speak in front of me — of Hywel and Beuno and Elizabeth and me — and the men who work on the farm piss in the hedgerow in front of me because they all think I am dead . |
| 22 | But how , when he had nothing that I could take by force , steal , hide , break in front of him , tear up or trample underfoot , to vent my rage and spite ? |
| 23 | Before entering the Church of Our Lady Before the Týn , look in front of it at the Týn School , which is in Gothic style with 16 gables and a strange bulging turret in the centre of the façade . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Now if you look in front of you you 'll all see little a green tray with lots of objects . |
| 26 | Children just do dangerous things — they run in front of swings , go down the slide backwards … |
| 27 | I stand in front of it and look up at the lights . |
| 28 | Erika and Paul went , Paul politely , solicitously , opening the door for Erika and waving her through first , although it was a tight squeeze in the tiny vestibule , and at the bus-stop , in a bizarre parody of good manners , insisting that Erika stand in front of him . |
| 29 | The moment you stand in front of an orchestra you hurt yourself on the inertia of the matter . |
| 30 | Just stand in front of this screen while I call him … ’ |