Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] the front [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Agnese was leading them through the front door into a cool tiled hallway , strewn with locally woven rugs and sweet with the delicate scent of freesias . |
2 | A good position at the start line will put you in the front rank on the first leg |
3 | Put you in the front seat hold on Bryony wants to get back in the buggy . |
4 | An emerald green leather footstool stands demurely by the fire ; a fakir 's brass sideboard from northern India gleams dimly against a wall ; two porcelain skunks chase one another across the landing ; a unique collapsible divan-cum-four-seater sofa edged in cadmium velvet welcomes you to the front room ; a vast oil portrait of a nineteenth-century munitions tycoon , casts a genial glow over the hall . |
5 | ‘ Well , come inside and have a cup of tea , ’ she said , and showed me into the front room of the house . |
6 | She led me into the front room where , defensively , she picked up the baby . |
7 | Dumbo puts me in the front passenger seat and seats himself behind . |
8 | ‘ Two men … someone must have let them in the front door … they took Jacqui … ’ |
9 | And , as Dalgliesh had heard him argue , for all their demands for equality of status and opportunity , putting them in the front line behind the riot shields , taking the petrol bombs , the hurled stones and now the bullets , only made the job of their male colleagues even more onerous . |
10 | Yeah take them in the front room then , take them out to erm |
11 | The Fernies got rid of her when I left and she walked me to the front gate . |
12 | as if in a dream , I allowed Mrs Knelle to lead me to the front door . |
13 | She left her second cup of tea , and she followed me to the front door . |
14 | ‘ Do come again , ’ said Irene , following them to the front door . |
15 | Owen accompanied them to the front entrance himself . |
16 | Happy or not , Tod preceded her through the front door . |
17 | The party was over and the house was in darkness when he pulled up in the courtyard and accompanied her through the front door into the hall . |
18 | She shifted the weight of his arm from her shoulders and began urging him towards the front door before his fabrications began to get even more elaborate . |
19 | Scooping her up in his arms , he carried her towards the front door , easily unlatched it , flicked a switch , kicked the door shut behind him , and carried her into the bedroom . |
20 | He threw the luggage into the boot of her hired car and helped her into the front seat . |
21 | she stuck the kid in the back of the car and put the grocery in and she picked her up and brought her into the front seat , ti , tied her in and and the the , the , the , this thing was coming about |
22 | He picked her up and carried her into the front room . |
23 | Patrick followed her into the front room , his eyes taking in her home . |
24 | There was just enough time for Bobbie to make herself tidy before they called her into the front room . |
25 | As I follow her into the front room someone whispers to Rufus : ‘ She got him under her thumb , I think . ’ |
26 | ‘ In here , ’ she said , leaving me to shut the front door , then follow her into the front room . |
27 | Because McKenzie know little or nothing about rugby , the coach tossed him into the front row . |
28 | She seemed inclined to give Harry short shrift , but at his mention of Heather 's name , she relented and showed him into the front room , where a meagre measure of calm and quiet prevailed . |
29 | Maisie had gone before him into the front garden . |
30 | Belinda met him in the front hall on his way to his sister 's room , and as expected he raised questioning eyebrows . |