Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [noun] [prep] front " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got things a bit back to front . |
| 2 | Before you could say ‘ blimey , look at that stagecoach turning into a pumpkin ’ , Setanta Records had booked The Frank & Walters into Wimbledon YMCA and Camden Underworld , where a support slot in front of a dozen punters showcased their spiky pop instincts and a subtly hysterical enthusiasm for life . |
| 3 | FIVE LAMPS , ridden by Russian Nikolay Amelchenko , died of a heart attack in front a packed grandstand at Cheltenham yesterday . |
| 4 | but , when you go into the passage his door , he 's got the door into the front room , same as ours , on the left , but when you get into the bottom of the passage , there 's a brick wall in front of ya , and it comes round and his door to the back dining room is on this side here |
| 5 | Next I gave her some lavender essence to put in the bath ( a tin bath in front of the kitchen range ) . |
| 6 | The cooking had to be done on an open fire and , when we wanted a bath , we warmed the water in a pan and poured it into a tin bath in front of the fire . |
| 7 | ‘ Like to see it ? ’ he asked , and there was the polyp on a tin tray in front of me , looking very battered and sorry for itself . |
| 8 | But he denies harassing Miss Donna Van Den Berghen , 21 , by putting his arm around her , touching her breasts and giving her a bear hug in front of colleagues . |
| 9 | The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and PR Sprays have teamed up to produce a new booklet targeted at people approaching retirement and who believe that retirement means a life as a couch potato in front of the telly . |
| 10 | The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and PR Sprays have teamed up to produce a new booklet targeted at people approaching retirement and who believe that retirement means a life as a couch potato in front of the telly . |
| 11 | And I 've never seen a case in which there was a fist fight in front of the cinema and they pulled the movie because of it . |
| 12 | The screen was made to the same size as a photographic plate , and used as a contact filter in front of the negative during exposure . |
| 13 | The screen was made to the same size as a photographic plate , and used as a contact filter in front of the negative during exposure . |
| 14 | The bomb exploded , apparently prematurely , in an empty bank building near a concert hall where the band of the Blues and Royals was at the time giving a charity performance in front of some 350 people . |
| 15 | He was up and dressed every day , and spent each evening in the corner of the public bar with a pint pot in front of him , keeping a benevolent eye on the satisfied customers . |
| 16 | The exercise was designed to make a student stand in front of class , sing his song and force each syllable out in an elongated manner so that it had a beginning and an end ; this , Landau explained , ought to enable the student to go into neutral , physically and mentally , so that tensions could be released and what was happening inside could be heard through the voice changes . |
| 17 | On Oct. 7 in Nepal five ethnic Nepalese members of the Tsogdu who had fled in May formally sought political asylum and threatened a hunger strike in front of the Kathmandu offices of the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation ( SAARC ) . |
| 18 | Moscow 's so-called " Tent City " , a squatter camp in front of the Rossiya Hotel close to the Kremlin , was bulldozed by police early on Dec. 30 , and 57 of its residents were arrested . |
| 19 | I was lying on my room carpet wearing a balaclava back to front , pinned down by my friend with her knees on my shoulders , while she made whooping noises like a submarine diving . |
| 20 | A small gravy-coloured carpet , a trestle table in front of the window and five folding chairs , three of them behind the table and occupied . |
| 21 | Her audience consisted of five punk kids at one table and an elderly couple at another who both sat staring , not at the singer , but straight ahead of them , a half-pint mug in front of each . |
| 22 | Somebody used to sit on the carpet at one end of the room with a walking stick and a chalk mark in front of him and the contestants used to have to come up to him and try to rub the marking out and he used to rap the hands with his walking stick . |
| 23 | As his reputation went before him like a brass band in front of a carnival , from the age of twenty no woman he met could possibly have been unaware of it . |
| 24 | Three light bulbs with white glass shades coated with grease on their upper sides hung in a line over the table where Mrs Files sat , a chopping block in front of her . |
| 25 | ‘ It nearly brought tears to my eyes , ’ confessed Dr Phil Gates yesterday in recalling the moment that he had a polythene bag in front of him which contained £250,000 in old notes . |
| 26 | ABOVE Young dogs , especially those with a show career in front of them , need to become accustomed to regular bathing and drying . |
| 27 | When we got to within quarter of an hour q sorry quarter of a mile of the the actual village itself , and remember it 's quarter of a mile I 'm talking about not ten yards fifteen yards away , we saw a railway embankment in front of us . |
| 28 | A famous film clip , which has been shown countless times , shows a NICRA supporter in front of the police line , appealing for restraint before suddenly doubling up , apparently in agony . |
| 29 | The paper is now glossy and the cover has a fashion model on front and a pin-up of a teen heart-throb on the back . |
| 30 | Gloucester needed an early score , an early lead and they got it after just 9 minutes when they won a penalty right in front of the posts . |