Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] the front [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked as if she could have stepped straight out of an urchin 's game on the street of a Northern Italian village or off the front cover of Vogue . |
| 2 | Are the contents shown on the inside front cover , or on the front page ? |
| 3 | Some scholars have argued that despite the front quality of OE /ae/ , ME a was a back vowel ( or perhaps merely a fully low vowel : it is not always clear what is meant by ‘ back vowel ’ ) , and on this basis have postulated a change around 1600 from a back ( or low ) value to front-raised /ae/ , which is of course the modern conservative RP value . |
| 4 | Then I noticed that right beside the checkpoint , in fact touching it , there stood a terrace of houses , and that in the front window of one of them stood a Christmas tree , with lights draped along its branches . |
| 5 | To rest properly it is necessary to get your weight onto your heel and off the front points . |
| 6 | Suddenly there was a commotion outside as Nigel and Elinor hurtled up the garden path and through the front door . |
| 7 | ‘ They 've got it up the stairs and through the front door , ’ he told them , the practical words giving nothing away about his mood . |
| 8 | They manhandled her out of the vehicle and through the front doors , down the corridor and into the small , windowless and empty room that had become her home for the last nine hours . |
| 9 | You 'll have to go up the drive and into the front doors of the school : they 're assembling outside the main office . |
| 10 | Along the wall opposite the bookcase was a bed and under the front window which looked out over the tiny arched lane and fields , was a small table with a photograph of a young dark-haired woman and a slightly older man with large penetrating eyes and a broad grin . |
| 11 | They bent double , and from the front prayer aisle came the distant cry : Allah hu-Akbar ! |
| 12 | Straight off the London train and in the front door . |
| 13 | And on the front cover of Spanish-owned Hello ! magazine the couple explain why they have chosen to break their silence and announce Mrs Bulger 's pregnancy . |
| 14 | And on the front sheet o entitled affordable housing , we see there that in the case of Hambleton we 'd be looking at forty one percent , of the remaining dwellings being unaffordable being affordable houses , down to York where it goes up to ninety percent . |
| 15 | And on the front page they say : ‘ We did n't want to share our sorrow but now we have good news to tell . ’ |
| 16 | and on the front page of the Sunday Sports , was it the Sunday Sport ? |
| 17 | The police did n't give any ground and on the front line they handed out as much physical punishment as they received . |
| 18 | er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something |
| 19 | Apply a bead of non-setting mastic all around the base of rebates on the timber subframe , and across the front sill platform |
| 20 | They rest with their wings flat , but with the front wings covering their rear ones . |
| 21 | They did n't go into the kitchen , but into the front parlour which was rarely used on weekdays . |
| 22 | ‘ One of the greatest dramas in the history of the British Theatre ’ was , as its by-line claimed , from ‘ The Daily Telegraph ’ ; it had come , however , not from the Arts page , but from the front page description of Michael Banks 's murder . |
| 23 | But at the front door I ran straight into a group of soldiers . |
| 24 | How pleased Ranulf was now finding out , whilst outside the front door a drunken Maltote kept watch . |