Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] front of his [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Across the green , Doctor Lovell heard for the first time about the accident at the old people 's homes , and was magnanimous enough not to make any comment about Edward Young 's steps in front of his partners . |
| 2 | Last year 's crop of court cases at the Old Bailey reported in national newspapers included : a French master who had a store of pornographic photos of teenage pupils dating back ten years ; a religious education master who simulated sexual intercourse in front of his pupils ( the Old Bailey heard he had done this little party trick dozens of times at different schools ) ; a primary school teacher who was allowed to go on teaching after being found guilty of ‘ lewd , indecent and libidinous practices ’ against ten- and 11-year old boys ; and a music teacher in Sussex who had raped , attempted to rape and indecently assaulted hundreds of girls over many years . |
| 3 | when he saw the stranger change into Doctor Jekyll in front of his eyes . |
| 4 | During the entire day he felt a violent , dissatisfied feeling that his whole life was taking place in front of his eyes without anything at all taking place . |
| 5 | His face assumed the condition of … rigid fixedness while in council … ; he kept his immense ceremonial hat on , and placed a large eagle 's wing in front of his eyes and nose ’ . |
| 6 | CLAIMS that a boy was hit by a teacher in front of his classmates may be the subject of an investigation . |
| 7 | A SENIOR schools inspector has been called in to investigate claims that a young boy was hit by a teacher in front of his classmates . |
| 8 | When he tried and saw the sky covered with rushing clouds , the lawn that had become a hay-field , the cedar 's wheeling branches , the gun levelled , there would come an explosion in his memory like the firing of that shot-gun , a redness in front of his eyes with splintered edges , then black-out . |
| 9 | There is water in front of his eyes . |
| 10 | His collected resolve in front of his officers is assuring his troops ' confidence in his controlled capacity to lead them as they prepare for an impending battle . |
| 11 | He did not want to appear flash in front of his workmates . |
| 12 | The officer became light headed and saw spots in front of his eyes . |
| 13 | By now he was some twenty lengths in front of his pursuers , and it was becoming a matter of how long this horse of doubtful stamina could keep going . |
| 14 | It was midnight when he finally eased the Triumph to a stop in front of his parents ' house and swayed gently up the steps . |
| 15 | In the chair before his desk , on which the pictures lay , Skaller was sitting with his hands in front of his eyes . |
| 16 | He raised his arm to see its motion in the flesh of his thumb , and clamped his other hand around the base of the digit in the hope of stopping its further advance , gasping as though doused with ice-water. the pain was out of all proportion to the mite 's size , but he held both thumb and sobs hard , determined not to lose all dignity in front of his executioners . |
| 17 | as if in confirmation of that fact , the pressure of the foam encasing his head eased slightly and a display readout began to project data onto a hitherto invisible screen in front of his eyes . |
| 18 | Obviously Rune must have thought she harboured some grudge against him and had been anxious to prevent a potential display of hostility in front of his colleagues the next day . |
| 19 | He also had a graduated filter in front of his eyes that turned every sky into a backcloth for " Maria Martin or the Murder in the Red Barn " . |
| 20 | There was nothing obviously wrong — Albert sitting at one end of the table in front of his books and Hepzibah making an apple pie at the other , pressing the pastry top with a fork to make a frill round the edge — but it was as if a light had gone out . |