Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [prep] the front " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crowds of men and women were swarming up the front steps to the three revolving doors . |
| 2 | Now they were stumbling into the front row of people , on to rough grass . |
| 3 | Eva and my father were going into the front room , hand-in-hand , and they were reaching for each other low down , and clutching , tongues out , pressed against each other even before they 'd got through the door . |
| 4 | They were standing on the front steps of Crystal Springs House . |
| 5 | ‘ When I arived he had led his two sisters out and they were standing by the front door . |
| 6 | They were sitting in the front line of chairs . |
| 7 | And if they were together in Hampton Wick , if they were sitting in the front room of his home in south-west London , then Holly 's company Fiesta would be in the road outside , and the clothes would be smart on his back , and the whisky and water in his hand , and the confidence in his talk . |
| 8 | He heard Paddy 's whisper from where he was kneeling in the front row and it had quite a chilling effect . |
| 9 | There was knocking on the front door . |
| 10 | He sprang out of the car and was banging on the front door . |
| 11 | Grace , who was purling in the front circle , gathered he was drawing their attention to the war and the number of dead and maimed . |
| 12 | Three days before Christmas Vernon was brushing down the front steps when he saw Meredith crossing the end of the street . |
| 13 | Gabriel climbed up the ladder , appearing to rise out of the rib-cage of First Man , who was lying across the front lip of the trapdoor . |
| 14 | When we got there she was lying in the front room . |
| 15 | Defries was staring through the front window . |
| 16 | Devraux was staring towards the front flaps as she entered and he froze when he saw her . |
| 17 | The Prime Minister was sitting on the Front Bench as Mr Major explained the importance of membership , and how wonderful it all was . |
| 18 | The deceased , at that time , was sitting in the front passenger seat . ’ |
| 19 | He was sitting in the front row of his theatre watching me , a notebook balanced on the leg of his rancid trousers . |
| 20 | Joe was sitting in the front room , wrapped in a black cloak . |
| 21 | It was half-past — two in the morning and I was sitting in the front passenger seat in dad 's Cortina while my sister Jean , who was driving , sent it hurtling down the road towards Carlisle . |
| 22 | It narrowly missed one of the occupants who was sitting in the front room . |
| 23 | As a result his friend Shean Kearney , 23 , who was sitting in the front passenger seat was fatally injured . |
| 24 | She was standing at the front edge of the stage with the microphone hanging from one limp hand by the outside of her right thigh . |
| 25 | Mme Guérigny was standing at the front door , her head pushed back , shouting up to the attic window for Jean-Claude . |
| 26 | A detective-constable was standing at the front door with the detached watchfulness of a man paid to endure boredom but ready to leap into action should , unaccountably , the boredom end . |
| 27 | Simone was standing by the front door which she held ajar , her hand to her mouth . |
| 28 | A.Q. : Towards five-thirty this morning , having just got back from the flower market , I was working in the front quarters of my shop when I got the idea I 'd heard a funny noise just outside the window … |