Example sentences of "front of [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She saw the scene in front of her through a mist . |
| 2 | Nothing , though , would induce her to sit in such close proximity , and she pretended she had n't seen it until the man in the white jacket swiftly replaced everything in front of her without a word . |
| 3 | She was roused from this disturbing fantasy by the arrival on the table in front of her of an Italian youth who was trying to escape the clutches of two boisterous female companions . |
| 4 | Rosa had been crying then , with the pieces of the plate her mother had tried to smash over her head in front of her at the table , and her mother had put the back of her hand to her daughter 's cheek , as if to test her for fever . |
| 5 | Pebbles had to snatch up briefly to avoid scrimmaging in front of her on the tight final bend , and for a second it looked as though she might be shut in . |
| 6 | Sometimes he was even prevailed upon to stay for dinner , which was usually a casual meal with everyone grouped around Faye and the wheeled tray that was placed in front of her on the padded lounge seat where she spent so much of her time . |
| 7 | Iris was staring in front of her with a set expression , making no response . |
| 8 | Blanche squinted thoughtfully , fixing the man in front of her with an inquisitive stare . |
| 9 | She saw her future flash in front of her like a dying man 's , every day longer and emptier than the one before . |
| 10 | Felipe stood in front of her like a lion-tamer , a whip in his hand with the thong coiled out of the way , and for a second Maggie felt a wave of fear . |
| 11 | She stretched her arms out in front of her like a cat , proving that Springsteen was still behind on points . |
| 12 | Twenty-six-year-old Yasmin says it took about a year and a great deal of hard work to get her figure back into shape , so she knows she 'll have a hard task in front of her after the birth of her second baby . |
| 13 | The two large men chased the smaller man , caught him and then proceeded to bash his brains out in front of everyone at the tables — or so it seemed . |
| 14 | has already crapped himself about the visit cause extra work of course but er the er however we should er revert maybe we 'll keep an eye on the schedule and things er but we we need to tie it up tight so we do n't get a cos I mean what 's being said now in the corridors of power is that the schedule is totally sales driven and it 's the sales department that 's put it together , I am only the administrator , I only I d I completely take my orders from the sales department quote unquote in front of everybody at the management meeting . |
| 15 | One day , for instance , a female journalist came on the set to interview Brynner who proceeded to make her look pretty stupid in front of everybody on the set . |
| 16 | At one point in 1987 I was bowling up the M6 talking to a colleague in London on my ‘ hands-off ’ Cellnet phone — it had a microphone in front of me on the visor . |
| 17 | P. E. A man dropped dead in front of me on the street and I took him to the mortuary and I got into trouble over it because I did n't search the body properly . |
| 18 | I 'm happy to cruise along in traffic on the road but when there is someone in front of me on the track , I become quite mad . |
| 19 | ‘ I felt I might have passed the pair in front of me on the last lap but what was the point , I had no chance of winning and this is a tough circuit . ’ |
| 20 | Here is a description of a canvas which is in front of me at the moment . |
| 21 | I see myself putting it down on the table in front of me at the Assessment Group and the papers slipping loose … |
| 22 | rights of erm fire so many people in front of me at the moment I . |
| 23 | ‘ Kerry was in front of me at the start and I went past her on the second mile , ’ she said . |
| 24 | If this is the best Europe has to offer , Hollywood 's producers will be sleeping more soundly than the old lady who sat in front of me during the screening . |
| 25 | As Stella says : ‘ There 's a load of people in front of me in the queue for jobs , is n't there ? ’ |
| 26 | He was stood in front of me in the sandwich queue the other day and . |
| 27 | ‘ As I came to a junction , a car pulled out in front of me from a road on the left . |
| 28 | Constance never forgot standing in front of one on the main staircase . |
| 29 | They came in to land in a snowscape , the lights along the thin ribbon of recently cleared runway coming into view and stretching out in front of them as the Seneca descended on its final approach . |
| 30 | There were more double doors at the end and in front of them on a tubular chair sat a uniformed constable reading the Sunday Express . |