Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [noun] in front " in BNC.
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| 1 | The impact of the landing had pushed one man forward under his seatbelt and his legs were trapped beneath the seat in front . |
| 2 | As the train approached the main line , from the sidings , the locomotive 's second man drew the driver 's attention to the shadowy figure of a tramp walking along the line in front of them . |
| 3 | ‘ I saw two holes appear in the windscreen in front of me and I felt pain in my chest . |
| 4 | Curtis felt a searing pain lance across the right side of his neck , and saw a small starred hole appear in the glass in front of him . |
| 5 | Well you will find for instance that three times as many people will strongly oppose and was strongly in favour , something omitted from the report in front of me and there are eight per cent there that were indifferent . |
| 6 | Then allow your goal or Dream to take on a symbolic form , and appear on the grass in front of you . |
| 7 | Michael looked up from where he knelt on the floor in front of the old armchair , his books spread out on the chair . |
| 8 | Back room stage so small the performers have to rest their mike stands on the floor in front . |
| 9 | The statue of the Virgin stands on the altar in front of this ; her face is in shadow . |
| 10 | be careful of the roads because a car ca n't erm ca n't always stop in time it 's up to you not to walk out in front of them cos they can say oh well you should be able to stop in time but in practice if you drove to be able to stop in time if somebody stepped out in front of you you 'd never above about five miles an hour you know ? you must sort of stick to the speed limits I do n't believe it we got gaining on the car in front . |
| 11 | I did n't notice at first ; I saw her walking down the street in front of me , and without any hesitation I knew who it was — I had n't seen her for over a year , she had cut her hair off short and was wearing a dress , but I knew . |
| 12 | His soup bowl snaked from his tray , tipped , tilted , the liquid ran steaming to the bowl in front of Byrkin . |
| 13 | Angels posed obligingly in front of my easel and it was nothing for Christ to stand on the river in front of this Mill . |
| 14 | The AOC 's personal assistant was an airman like myself and he warned me not to stand on the mat in front of his desk . |
| 15 | Returning from a London party , he was driving down Radnor Walk when he saw the unmarked vans parked by the kerb in front of Tweed 's terrace house . |
| 16 | He came through the wall in front of me ! |
| 17 | He broke off as Newman entered , closed the door , nodded to Monica and slumped into the chair in front of Tweed 's desk . |
| 18 | The most practical idea is to have a slight well let into the floor in front of the door and to fill it with coconut matting . |
| 19 | All of your early hovering attempts will be made with the model in front of you and the tail pointing towards you ( Fig. 4.5 ) . |
| 20 | He put the card down and began serving out the oeufs soubise from the dish in front of him . |
| 21 | I did the er there was a an ambulance came down the road in front of a bus you see , and a chap which was on the cor , side the road and he he went like this so I stopped and the ambulance came round and turned into this building site and I and while we were sitting there bang ! |
| 22 | As she turned the corner , about four feet ahead of her at the saloon end of the passage , Nathan was sitting in the well-padded swivel chair bolted to the deck in front of the chart table . |
| 23 | At least he 'd made someone happy , he thought drily , regretting that he 'd snarled at the lad in front of him . |
| 24 | There were three of them , two women and a man , all old and white-haired , each with a shepherd 's crook of a walking-stick propped against the pew in front . |
| 25 | She nodded towards the books in front of Donna . |
| 26 | Just as though he had not been going to walk past into the kitchen , he wheeled , and pounded up the stairs in front of her . |
| 27 | Everyone took-off at one minute intervals to allow for the prop wash to subside from the plane in front of you . |
| 28 | I sank down further until I could just see over the seat in front . |
| 29 | Ginny left him brooding on the past in front of a game show on television . |
| 30 | Behind him Grey Sombrero took a crashing fall at the Chair and broke his shoulder , but all eyes were on Crisp as he skipped over the water in front of the exhilarated spectators in the stands and swung out towards the second circuit . |