Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] [prep] front [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert did not shift his eyes , waiting for another image to swarm out of the chamber in front of him , but all he could hear , now , was groaning . |
| 2 | They 're just shadows , ghosts who dance under the shade of the spreading yew trees which border the far end of the lawn in front of my manor house . |
| 3 | Quickly Chesarynth re-hung a memory of the helix in front of her mental gaze . |
| 4 | Depending on the make of motor vehicle , normally there are two wipers fitted and both must work as regulation 34(1) of the above regulation insists that … an adequate view of the road in front of the near and offsides of the vehicle … is required . |
| 5 | Roman asked the receptionist for Garry 's room number and Claudia saw the girl 's polite manner deepen to one of appreciation of the man in front of her . |
| 6 | Julian asked in the ear of the man in front of her . |
| 7 | A full-breasted woman clambered over the shoulder of the man in front of Marcus , a rose clenched between her teeth , her curves undulating with the ripple of the man 's back . |
| 8 | Miss Honey paused and leaned back in her chair behind the plain table that stood in the middle of the floor in front of the class . |
| 9 | " Now , " he continued , not looking at them , " the two men standing on either side of the gate in front of us have been there since morning . |
| 10 | I am much less worried by the kisses than by the question of the identity of the officer in front of me . |
| 11 | He 'd lifted the near edge of the door up about three inches above the top of the joist in front of him . |
| 12 | He reached the top of the bank , lizards scattering out of the way in front of him . |
| 13 | Sat at the end of the row in front of us , a gentleman whose office we might or might not be standing in at this very moment . |
| 14 | I turned the pages ; but the top of the pew in front of me , upon which I was balancing the book , was narrow and my fingers cold . |
| 15 | She ‘ writes ’ the first letter with her finger on the back of the girl in front of her . |
| 16 | To get the distances correct , have them place their hands on the shoulders of the person in front of them . |
| 17 | Stick out a front leg and touch the shoulder of the person in front of you . ’ |
| 18 | It was a cold , wet February ; and Branson spent most of the weekend in front of the blazing log fire , reading . |
| 19 | Then , in your own words answer the question at the top of the sheet in front of you as honestly as you can . |
| 20 | Just then he heard footsteps approaching and a figure loomed out of the fog in front of him . |
| 21 | At the moment we 're er just sorting out the price of things , we think it will be available at around about ninety nine pounds and that will include your travel there , your hotel accommodation and I 've got the leaflet of the hotel in front of me and it looks pretty spectacular actually . |
| 22 | I could see the outline of the soldier in front of me , at least that is an improvement on yesterday evening 's march . |
| 23 | Judging by the thickness of the file in front of me we are going to be working together for some little time yet . |
| 24 | The wooden soldiers were in the middle of the room in front of them . |
| 25 | My voice was taut with anger as I pulled it out of the shelf in front of me and opened it on my knees . |
| 26 | Then , so fast that the movements are almost impossible to analyse , the cat lashes out with its claws extended , raking the skin of the hand in front of it . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He gripped the back of the chair in front of him . |
| 29 | She placed the palms of her hands on the seat of the chair in front of her , and was immediately intensely aware of her naked posterior curving outwards towards him . |
| 30 | He is not a painter of the world in front of him , more a painter of ideas and thoughts . |