Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [prep] front " in BNC.
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| 1 | She pulled herself up on her walking-frame and shuffled off , pushing it in front of her , towards the kitchen . |
| 2 | Before she had time to think he had wrenched her case from her and , pushing it in front of him , used the sharp ends as a battering ram to force his way through the crowds . |
| 3 | She dragged her eyes up and watched as , unhurriedly , he stripped off his heavy gloves and laid them across the bike before lifting his helmet off and balancing it in front of him . |
| 4 | So , rather than holding it in front of you as in the carve gybe , you deliberately lose the power from the rig by oversheeting ad leaning it towards the wave . |
| 5 | Willie sat on the stool holding it in front of the fire , his long socks trailing across the floor . |
| 6 | At the 1836 festival a disguised police officer saw ‘ … two men , with an effigy of a man stuffed and coloured red , holding it in front of the bull . |
| 7 | I mean it was one thing standing up in front of my own group and giving a lecture , but it was quite another kettle of kippers doing it in front of a strange class . |
| 8 | The shameful thing was doing it in front of strangers , and being seen by your friends in the process . |
| 9 | I ended up lying in the scrubby grass at the bottom of the hill , my knuckles white as I throttled the rabbit , swinging it in front of my face with its neck held on the thin black line of rubber tubing , now tied like a knot on a black string . |
| 10 | Last week two nurses were sacked for dressing a pig 's head as a patient and parading it in front of acutely disturbed women . |
| 11 | and all we will be talking about when my father-in-law will be coming along , he 's got a tripod , he 's got all the gear , it will be just that probably be plonking it on front of the ground circle actually |
| 12 | In this version , the man carried a parasol , and the most memorable sequence is when , brandishing it in front of him like a cross between a broom and a weapon , he opens and shuts it in time with the steps . |