Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] in [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John got down in front of Dad and looked up into his face and said , ‘ It 's our flight . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The constitutional function performed by courts of justice as interpreters of the written law laid down in Acts of Parliament is often described as ascertaining ‘ the intention of Parliament ; ’ but what this metaphor , though convenient , omits to take into account is that the court , when acting in its interpretative role , as well as when it is engaged in reviewing the legality of administrative action , is doing so as mediator between the state in the exercise of its legislative power and the private citizen for whom the law made by Parliament constitutes a rule binding upon him and enforceable by the executive power of the state . |
| 3 | Kragan knelt down in front of Adam and looked at him as a butcher would appraise a cut of meat . |
| 4 | Fair-haired Jews from Moscow and Leningrad mingled with olive-skinned Georgians to read the Cyrillic slogans welcoming them and then sank down in rows of plastic chairs or gazed at the panoramic photograph of Jerusalem covering an entire wall . |
| 5 | The clouds rose up in front of God 's throne . |
| 6 | Employers who do not offer career breaks and childcare facilities may find themselves passed over in favour of employers who do . |
| 7 | The bucket had a rope attached to its handle and I skimmed it over the stern to haul up a gallon or so of sea-water which I slammed down in front of Rickie . |
| 8 | He came down in favour of microkernels , the client-server paradigm , and remote procedure calls . |
| 9 | Whether this added up in terms of cost per job was another matter . |
| 10 | I booked up in advance of course . |
| 11 | Higgins , came up in front of snooker 's ruling body , the WPBSA , to answer charges of offences committed during last November 's UK championship in Preston . |
| 12 | At last Fairham tore his gaze away and filed out in front of Nicholson . |
| 13 | It was an ordinary Bobby on foot patrol who strolled out in front of Armstrong and put a hand on the roof after indicating to me to lower my window . |
| 14 | He spent more than 40 hours constructing a wooden last and fashioning a brown leather shoe that measured up in terms of style and fit . |
| 15 | He danced about in front of Lachlan , shouting and waving . |
| 16 | ‘ And you just got up in front of Henry and those pipsqueaks in your department and said , ‘ Sorry and all that , old chaps , but I 've been wrong all my life and led you into error and wickedness ’ ? ’ |
| 17 | There were long streaks of stickiness on the floor to which ash had stuck , glasses with remnants of drink , some with cigarette stubs disintegrating in them , some tipped over in puddles of booze , plates with remnants of food and cigarettes that had smouldered out among them . |
| 18 | There had seemed , in the carriage ride from Bodmin , to be no snow in Cornwall , and the air when she stepped out in front of Aunt Emily 's door had a faint , sharp tang of salt , a whiff of the sea . |
| 19 | I clipped into the top peg and swung around in tides of feelings below the bulge . |
| 20 | They were soft scratchings or shufflings , like the sounds made by an animal as it sniffed about in search of food . |
| 21 | As he approached the age of 40 he bowed out in favour of Peter May , an heir-apparent who had succeeded Sir Leonard Hutton as England captain two years earlier . |
| 22 | All this went on in front of Mr Barr and linesman David Magill , which let me say , was the result of an over-acted injury by another Linfield player . |
| 23 | Usually I took my bicycle and went off in search of friends who , like me , were too full of energy to want to rest . |
| 24 | But while he has anguished over his role in life , to the point where it would surprise no one if he just threw in the towel tomorrow and went off in search of obscurity , Steffi appears to have suffered no such agonies and self-doubt . |
| 25 | Luckily , one of the participants had to withdraw at the last moment and taking her place on the team , I went off in search of sponsors . |
| 26 | Prost won out in the end and then went off in persuit of Hill … |
| 27 | the world chewed up , spat out in terms of tons |
| 28 | It is unusual to see hourly rates spelled out in terms of reference , but it may save arguments later . |
| 29 | Cars zoomed by in wings of water . |
| 30 | Eyre Square , though marred by a mad iron statue put up in honour of Kennedy , was still a fine place , used as a promenade by the young people of Galway . |