Example sentences of "stand [adv] [prep] front " in BNC.
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| 1 | A big-boned , red-haired Irish woman tears through the crowd , stands squarely in front of us despite pushing from all sides and glares down upon us , her gaze steady , her freckles flushed . |
| 2 | Kellard stands placidly in front of him . |
| 3 | He came back to stand directly in front of Nuadu . |
| 4 | So you 're going to stand up in front of a judge and say all that , are you , Wally ? |
| 5 | Miss Harker was certainly very charming and many had hoped that her arrival might bring them some relief , but not one of them wanted to stand up in front of the boss 's relative and complain about the mill . |
| 6 | There he was encouraged to stand up in front of other patients and describe his own particular addiction . |
| 7 | I mean we do n't whether she sort of it does n't say whether she volunteered to go and talk to the people in the school , but even so it 's quite it takes quite a lot of doing to stand up in front of a group of people you do n't know and talk about the work . |
| 8 | You 're going to stand up in front of a hundred or so of your closest friends and tell them your deepest , most private thoughts . ’ |
| 9 | Well of course tha that might just be intimidation by large numbers of other people , like you know having to stand up in front of a group of other people , I think anybody feels the same . |
| 10 | Some a lot of you said yesterday that you do n't always get in this formal situation having to stand up in front of people . |
| 11 | ‘ So is business good ? ’ he enquired , refusing to release the shiny bag , so that Robyn had to stand awkwardly in front of him in all her glorious finery and feel a hundred times worse than ever because his eyes were wandering over her face , travelling lazily down the length of her body , taking in every depressing detail . |
| 12 | Illustrating the size of this large single-seat , single-engined fighter , owner Lindsay Walton stands proudly in front of his ‘ steed ’ at this years Great Warbirds Air Display , held at Wroughton over the August Bank Holiday weekend . |
| 13 | Bob Noorduyn stands proudly in front of the recently restored UC–46A Norseman CF–DRD , on the day of the official opening of Norseman Park in the township of Red Lake , Ontario . |
| 14 | It is quite another to stand defiantly in front of the guns and hold your ground . |
| 15 | When picking something up from the floor , stand slightly in front and to the side of the object ; then , keeping the head upright , bend the knee and , still looking forward , pick up the object by feel ; do not look down . |
| 16 | What are the skills that we need when we stand up in front of people to actually deliver what we have to say |
| 17 | In green ties , red epaulettes and blue cummerbunds we lined up ; Marius , who had been chosen as the star recruit , would lead the parade and stand out in front of us as we received our képis . |
| 18 | But now many of them can stand up in front of the gate and talk back to the managing director . |
| 19 | Will Primavera stand out in front of such a cut-out ? |
| 20 | We , we ca n't stand there in front of members and put ourselves in the firing line if we do n't know the answers to their questions . |
| 21 | He looked down at the man still standing nervously in front of him , and noticed his jacket was patched and someone had put leather binding round the edges of the sleeves . |
| 22 | She glanced at the girl standing eagerly in front of her . |
| 23 | At the sound of Melissa 's strident tones she pulled up sharply and saw that her second least favourite person was standing squarely in front of her , thin arms folded determinedly across a rather too revealing cleavage . |
| 24 | He had manoeuvred her just right , pressing her into the tightest corner , standing squarely in front of her so that she had no choice but to stare into his dark , angry face . |
| 25 | Marc was standing squarely in front of them both , and Sarella felt he could read everything in their faces . |
| 26 | Standing directly in front of him , his face calm and assured , he demanded five hundred rupees as compensation . |
| 27 | She disarmed herself , putting her grenades and pistol down on to the floor , and standing directly in front of the spy hole , but some ten feet away . |
| 28 | It took a few minutes for his eyes to adjust to the dimness , and he remained still , blinking hard , making out the man standing directly in front of him holding the shotgun , while on the stairs to his left another person — a woman ? — was also holding what looked like a small pistol on him . |
| 29 | He was standing directly in front of her , smiling down . |
| 30 | He was standing directly in front of Terry Place , with Nona to his right . |