Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] in front " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Make tying laces into a great game : sit down with the shoes in front of you both and tie and untie them together . |
| 2 | One day Cassowary flopped down into the clearing in front of Bower-bird 's pretty little house . |
| 3 | The bodies of the leaders were taken to Milan where they were hung upside down from a girder in front of a petrol station in Piazza Loreto . |
| 4 | He went back into the church , sat down in a chair in front of a statue of the Virgin . |
| 5 | You know , she made him sit down in the middle in front of everybody you see |
| 6 | ‘ The spider came down on a thread in front of me while I was driving . |
| 7 | Making a fist Michael smashed it down on the desk in front of him , causing their empty coffee cups to rattle in their saucers . |
| 8 | She lifted Albert 's arms from the table , sat herself promptly down on the newspaper in front of Albert and let his arms fall on each side of her . |
| 9 | It was a little plane , and it was going to come down on the road in front of the prison ! |
| 10 | She watched him go back to the kitchen and when he had shut the living room door firmly , she sank down on the rug in front of the gas fire with her back propped against the armchair and sipped gloomily at the wine . |
| 11 | He sat down on the rug in front of the Anywhithers and leaned back on straight arms , gazing up at the sky . |
| 12 | I lay down on the rug in front of the fire and dozed off . |
| 13 | He put the plate down on the counter in front of him then lifted her on to a stool . |
| 14 | Gillian took a sip of wine , put the glass down on the table in front of her on top of the brochure from the dating agency , slipped off her shoes and curled her feet up under her on the sofa . |
| 15 | Kathleen gave a little cry and put the cardboard box down on the table in front of her , as if afraid of it . |
| 16 | She put her vase down on the table in front of me , then glancing around my pantry again said : ‘ If you wish , Mr Stevens , I might bring in some more cuttings for you . ’ |
| 17 | I see myself putting it down on the table in front of me at the Assessment Group and the papers slipping loose … |
| 18 | This pleasant hotel is built on a slight rise , and has excellent views of the mountains behind it and down to the village in front . |
| 19 | Carrington looked at Talbot and shook his head , then dropped down to the sea-bed in front of the nose cone . |
| 20 | He looked across , smiled , winked at her , and said ‘ Hi there … er = ’ He glanced down at a sheet in front of him . |
| 21 | ‘ Ah , yes , ’ Farouk cut in and glanced down at the notepad in front of him . |
| 22 | Marshka shrugged and looked down at the report in front of him . |
| 23 | His voice trailed off and Ruth looked sharply at him as he lowered his gaze and looked down at the paperwork in front of him . |
| 24 | I held my hand up , fingers splayed , and counted the points off like a teacher in front of a group of scholars . |
| 25 | Lining up for a photocall in front of the latest Leyland Daf trucks , just before the announcement of the rosy future the newly formed companies have predicted for themselves . |
| 26 | ‘ And when he attacked you , you picked him up like a baby in front of all those people , ’ Doone said . |
| 27 | Many of the canvases produced in the later part of 1906 constitute what might be called a ‘ crisis ’ point in Picasso 's art in that he was becoming increasingly obsessed with creating figures which were heavily volumetric , indeed often almost grotesquely bulky , but which simultaneously adhered or clung to the picture plane : the effect they produce could best be described by imagining a series of pneumatic models pushed up against heavy panes of glass and pumped up with air , so that they get larger and larger whilst simultaneously flattening up against the surface in front of them . |
| 28 | I smiled broadly at Pointy-Beard and yelled ‘ Catch ! ’ as I threw the bags up in the air in front of his face . |
| 29 | He picked a newly constructed swatch of samples up from the desk in front of him and chucked it at Antinou , who caught the flopping thing one-handed and proceeded to fondle it familiarly . |
| 30 | This is Michael Wayland , who appears on television a lot , and who as a consequence can never remember anything unless it 's written on the Autocue , or held up beside the lens in front of him . |