Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] in front " in BNC.
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| 1 | Squiggly things were swimming round in front of my eyes , like transparent tadpoles . |
| 2 | The whole horse militia of Westmorland and northern Lancashire , and all the militia of Cumberland , were drawn up in front of the little Lake District town , under the chief local landowner , Lord Lonsdale , and with 10,000 men they easily outnumbered the rebels , but a mere sight of Forster 's advance guard was enough and the whole body fled in terror , leaving the field littered with horses and arms . |
| 3 | As they were milling about in front of the camera , Rosie said to her husband , ‘ Just think — at breakfast-time you were saying when we opened the shop , we probably would n't have any customers at all , and here they are , queueing up to have their pictures taken . ’ |
| 4 | Many of the players were playing up in front of the water but Sam was through the green with a 2-iron . |
| 5 | On 17 October 1952 tanks were lined up in front of the presidential palace and a group of officers led by Nasution called on Sukarno to dissolve parliament . |
| 6 | Four younger men were lined up in front of him and he was addressing them . |
| 7 | Huge four-wheeled carts , each pulled by six horses , were lined up in front of the main doors as Fat Henry moved his furniture and belongings elsewhere for another round of pleasure . |
| 8 | It seems to me that an awful lot of the voluntary sector does come from very much the individualist side of the equation which you were laying out in front of us Chris . |
| 9 | A tent of dyed homespun was erected out in front , while some caterers got busy preparing Punjabi specialities over a clay oven at the back of the house . |
| 10 | Here Mr Malik stepped back with a flourish , and Robert found he was walking out in front of the whole school , his heart thumping , his mind a complete blank . |
| 11 | So if you are lucky you have a person who was not at all interested in what was happening out in front of the group of children miming and doing the actions to a song they may well not have known before . |
| 12 | As Taff was talking he was looking around in front of our position . |
| 13 | The wall was rushing by in front of him now , glassy and smooth , offering no grip should he miss his intended target . |
| 14 | An enormous powder blue car , gleaming and new , its plentiful chromium winking in the sunlight , was drawn up in front of the house and against it leaned a man in a white suit . |
| 15 | A single-bar electric fire stood in front of the empty grate and a wing-backed chair , threadbare and with broken springs , was drawn up in front of it . |
| 16 | I was hauled off in front of the assistant governor for adjudication . |
| 17 | A man of around the same age was squatting down in front of the TV set , belatedly fumbling to turn down the volume ; he was in his underwear , and was as pale as lard . |
| 18 | One morning I was called up in front of the 2ème Bureau and walked into an office to be interviewed by three Sergeants who spoke perfect English . |
| 19 | The neck was stretched out in front so the head hung down low , almost as low as the tiny hooves . |
| 20 | Domestic air flights were suspended on the receipt of bomb threats , four buses were fire-bombed and a small explosive device was set off in front of the CGT headquarters in Buenos Aires . |
| 21 | No sooner had she sunk down on one of the chesterfields than he was hunkering down in front of her , lifting her injured foot to rest on his knee , removing the shoe and gently touching the nylon-covered flesh beneath the delicate ankle-bone . |
| 22 | A queue of about ten people wearing gym shoes was lined up in front of the ladder . |
| 23 | Everyone else , from the father to the uncles to the cousins , was lined up in front of the brother and given a gun . |
| 24 | I was told that in the early days of tape , three weeks ' work in Europe was wiped when , as the White Cliffs of Dover came into sight , the bag containing them was put down in front of the rotating aerial . |
| 25 | Earlier , PC Reggie Williamson , 46 , was blown up in front of his girlfriend as they returned home from a night out near Moy , Co Tyrone . |
| 26 | Sometimes she was served up garnished with prizes , a certificate of excellence in swimming or a merit card from a teacher , but more often than not she was slapped down in front of him like a British Rail sandwich , garnished with a series of medical complaints . |