I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a back/front/side pocket
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He took a wad of money from his back pocket.
a front window
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I don't want people looking in my front window.
a front/rear tyre
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I bought a set of new front tyres.
cold front
directly in front of/behind/under etc sth
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It was a small house, directly behind the church.
front and center
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Prayer in schools has become a front-and-center issue.
front bench
front desk
front door
front doorstep
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the front doorstep
front foot (= of an animal )
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The tiger has five claws in each of its front feet.
front line
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troops who had served in the front line at Magdeburg
front line
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young soldiers who were sent to the front line to fight
front man
front matter
front of house
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the front-of-house manager
front office
front room
front/back yard
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The kids were playing in the back yard.
home front
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The film is set on the home front in 1943.
in front of...mirror
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He spends hours in front of the mirror !
sb's front/back teeth
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Some of his front teeth were missing.
shop front
smack in the middle/in front of sth etc
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There was a hole smack in the middle of the floor.
the front garden British English (= at the front of a house )
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Their house had a small front garden.
the front wheel
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Turn your front wheels in the direction of the skid.
the front/back cover
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The price of the book is on the back cover.
the front/back door key
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She felt in her pocket for the front door key.
the front/back edge
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I banged my elbow on the front edge of the desk.
the front/back gate (= the gate in front of or at the back of a building )
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She stood outside the front gate of the cottage.
the front/back page (= of a newspaper )
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Her picture was on the front page of every newspaper.
the front/back/rear seat (= in a car )
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Never leave bags on the back seat of a car.
the front/back/rear/side entrance
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There is a long drive with steps leading to the front entrance.
the front/back/side door (= of a house )
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I heard someone knocking at the front door.
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Use the back door if your boots are muddy.
the front/head of the queue
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He pushed his way to the front of the queue.
the front/rear/side exit
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When the lights dimmed, she slipped out by the rear exit.
the rear/front brakes (= for the rear/front wheels )
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The rear brakes were ineffective.
warm front
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
broad
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On a broader front , I have been impressed by the various initiatives which have been taken locally to manage costs.
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It was an effort to roll back federal aid to the poor across a much broader front .
cold
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Where the cold front of winter can be a killer.
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Another cold front passed through the north state Monday night and early Tuesday, chilling the region with November-like temperatures.
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Never risk parking out overnight without checking the weather forecast for a strong wind warning or the approach of a cold front .
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Forecasters are banking on a cold front to clear cloudy conditions.
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But all that was some months ago and she had a cold front since for her hefty swinging colleague.
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Clearing conditions were forecast behind the cold front that dragged low clouds through Central Florida early Friday.
domestic
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It will be equal competition on the domestic front .
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From the mid-forties onward Congress legislated for the domestic front while the President acted on the foreign front.
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On the domestic front , disposal tends to mean throwing rubbish in the bin.
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It deals with the domestic intelligence front .
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On the domestic front I was less fortunate and had no great success with house hunting.
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By March of 1188, Frederick seemed finally to have defeated his opponents on the major domestic and imperial fronts .
economic
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On the economic front , there are two pro-regional arguments.
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Reducing inflation was, until 1989, the government's greatest achievement on the economic front .
united
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McCord's revelations led to the first crack in the united front amongst Nixon's officials.
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Microsoft refuses to be phased by emergence of united Unix front Tough talk?
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Instead, there will be attempts to paper over the chasms and put on a united front for the sake of appearances.
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A united front was to be formed with the Nationalists.
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In the last six months, inter-party rivalry has been subordinated to the need for a united unionist front .
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But in the face of the enemy they presented a united front .
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You need to present a united front and avoid taking sides or playing one child off against the other.
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The right wing put forward a united front with the clear aim of overthrowing the republic.
wide
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Undoubtedly a major factor here is the 5ins longer wheelbase and wider front and rear tracks.
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On a wider front secularism has affected our lives in a variety of ways.
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The method thus supplies greater transparency and insight and leads to a unified approach offering progress along a wide front .
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It is important to note that we have greatly increased the number of professionals providing services on a wide range of fronts .
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Whatever the cause of failure, help to families has to operate on a wide front .
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Restrictions on advertising and fees have been relaxed over a wider front .
■ NOUN
home
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But on the home front , too, it's been a busy year.
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One spouse may work days while the other works nights in order to keep the home front covered.
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But there is definitely change on the home front .
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Racial violence on the home front and the war abroad contended for headlines.
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It was correctly viewed as the low point of wartime morale on the home front .
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During World War I she was conspicuous for her public relief work on the home front .
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Other news from the home front .
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More dangerous on the home front are the volatile substances that are inhaled to produce a high.
shop
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In the courtyard of the family home, on the road and in shop fronts , people chatted, smoked, gossiped.
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The stalls had disappeared, the shop fronts were boarded up.
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A freshly painted shop front with shining glass and a window full of bottles.
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The streets were jammed tight with narrow shop fronts and grimy cafés.
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Attracting 600,000 visitors a year, the village is littered with ugly shop fronts and tacky signs.
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Across the streets whole shop fronts lay in a mangled mess.
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Paint was peeling from the shop fronts , some premises were derelict.
■ VERB
present
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But this phalanx of enemies, all with influence in the legislature, did not present an unbroken front .
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It was not expected to be waterproof, although obviously in combination with the mortar it should present a united front .
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But in the face of the enemy they presented a united front .
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You need to present a united front and avoid taking sides or playing one child off against the other.
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Inpart this failure of the middle classes to present a unified political front arose from the very intransigence of the regime.
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At this stage nothing remains but that each should present an opaque front to the other.
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Parents need to present a combined front to the children which is firm and united.
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Both Secunderabad and Hyderabad presented long arcaded fronts to the platform, back by powerful rectangular blocks containing offices.
sit
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They suggested she sat at the front of the class, and her bright hand shot up to answer every question.
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I sat at the front of the coach, next to the driver.
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A black serviceman boarded a city bus and sat in front , remembers Chauvin, who lives in Hayward.
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An audience can only sit at the front of the stage and the hall stretches back for miles.
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Jim sits in front of four computer screens, controlling de-inking equipment that cost $ 42 million to install.
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I sat up front with him.
stand
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Three men approached the car, and one of them stood in front of it, Velarde said.
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The moment they emerged from the field, Jinju felt as if she were standing naked in front of a crowd.
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He crossed the room, stood in front of the board, and thought for a moment.
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He stands in front of the cameras and preaches with unmistakable pomposity, treating his opinions as if they were holy writ.
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An elderly woman in a kimono stands blankly in front of the second photograph.
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I could see her there standing in front of me, crying, because the others were telling her she was ugly.
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He walks down the steps and stands in front of Primo.
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Then she took pictures of Primo, Felix and Manny, standing in front of its crossing eight-foot blades.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
back to front
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Dan appeared in jeans, wearing his cap backward as usual.
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You've got your sweater on back to front.
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And can you fool them, by planting them back to front?
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But supposing X-rays were normally displayed back to front or the way one looked at the person?
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I had an arrow right through my body from back to front somewhere in the region of my lower ribs.
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It was all wrong and back to front, but no one could say the old baggage lacked for courage.
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Papers are missing from each and the sheets inside have been turned back to front, and at angles.
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Row 1: Bring needle from back to front of work through the stitch below the first stitch to be worked.
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The crowd was crammed shoulder to shoulder and back to front on the shrinking piece of roadway.
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They're boys' hips, girls' hips, front to front, back to front.
dangle sth in front of sb/before sb
front/rear/back wheels
in the front line
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It would be like having all our soldiers in the front line at the same time.
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Or his practice of filming in the front line, and even beyond the front line?
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She is trapped in the front line on the killing streets of Western Sarajevo.
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They were sitting in the front line of chairs.
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We really were in the front line.
make the papers/headlines/front page etc
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And the story made the front pages.
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Not surprisingly, the story made the front page of the New York Times and many other papers.
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Print reporters know their stories stand a better chance of making the front page.
out front
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But then that funny copper, Malpass, had known I'd been out front on Sunday.
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Her flowers out front may have changed but little else has, it would appear.
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I left the car out front and climbed the wide marble steps to the entrance hall.
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I stayed out front hoping to get another look at the girl if she came out.
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Should they stop because the people out front were drowning everything coming from the stage?
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That the police chief was parked out front?
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There was some kind of commotion out front.
put on a brave face/front
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He was shattered, though he put on a brave face.
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I suppose parents have to put on a brave face.
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Leaving the court the families all tried to put on a brave face.
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Meanwhile, Llandundo put on a brave face yesterday and struggled to get back to normal after last week's devastating floods.
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Newspaper staff put on a brave face.
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No one said a word all of us were consciously putting on a brave face.
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Whether in denial or putting on a brave face, the delegates professed to be unperturbed by those numbers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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She puts on this "innocent little girl" act, but it's all a front .
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The car rental company is actually a front for a drugs ring.
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The charity has been accused of being a front for anti-government activity.
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The club was just a front - Luchese's real business was drug smuggling and gun running.
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Trucks are heading toward the front with fresh supplies.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Clinton ordered Pennsylvania Avenue closed to vehicular traffic in front of the White House.
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His black hair was now white, as were his shoulders and the front of his coat.
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His whole life passed in front of me; the lives of his fathers, his sons.
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Over instead of pull it over in front .
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The front had undergone a terrible impact, the rest was essentially intact.
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The disenfranchising effect of unemployment has worked on a number of fronts.
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The distinctively figured wood facing the wings on both back and front is an unusual choice of yew.
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The pass has a slight loft and, crucially, is thrown in front of Edney.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bench
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He spoke frequently and effectively on the Conservative front bench until the progress of Parkinson's disease made it impossible.
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Six boys from the front bench were selected.
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I do not believe in patronage even from the Labour front bench .
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They were the first couple in parliamentary history to sit on a front bench together in either House.
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There had always been more in common between the front benches than either had in common with their followers in the country.
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When the Asquith government was formed there was of course no post for such a recent recruit to the front bench .
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The Opposition front bench , and most of the other Opposition benches as well, would be occupied by the Conservatives.
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This aroused the resentment of almost the whole front bench , but Wigg's hostility was not evenly spread.
cover
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This book ought to have a free razor-blade stuck to its front cover .
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In advance he had prepared a message and written a list of page numbers inside the front cover .
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We were promised a front cover with International Musician and they wanted the band just to pose with their instruments.
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On the front cover , a dilute tabby looks nobly if nervously to its right.
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David wouldn't do it, so we lost the front cover .
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Little things, simple things, like a passport with an eagle on the front cover .
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The front cover of Dry, their debut album, captures Harvey's lipsticked mouth smudged against glass.
desk
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The unit is controlled from the front desk and it is programmed to accept cards with the correct codes.
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They are used to keep track of what happens in the classrooms and at the front desk .
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I marched to the front desk and enquired the price of single room for one night.
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Economy hotels offer clean, comfortable rooms and front desk services without costly extras like restaurants and room service.
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As front desk personnel come and go, training and retraining is crucial for the daily success of any system.
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A large black man sat behind the front desk with his sleeves rolled up.
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After checking in and taking a shower, I tried to ring Merrit from the front desk .
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Soon the big fellow did the same, fixing his trousers even as he passed the front desk with wet face averted.
door
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At the end of the corridor leading from the front door was the kitchen, where he found the fridge.
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There were two swallows nesting above our front door .
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Polly gingerly took up the receiver of the entryphone intercom that hung on the wall beside her front door .
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And some designers are even painting front doors to match the landscaping.
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Our communal phone is on the hallway wall by the front door .
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Their front yards and front doors facing the streets will make them safer, housing experts believe.
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They waited until the front door of the flat slammed.
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A residence was entered by forcing a front door .
end
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At the front end Open windows or the X Window system can be run.
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The front end is where he works.
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Yet lexical access stands in the same relation to these levels as the acoustic front end stands to lexical access.
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As I conveniently feed his front end , his droppings should cascade on to the newspapers covering the floor.
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The consequence of having a front end is that stimuli tend to make their impact there first.
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The freight train was partially derailed, with its shattered front end resting close to a home.
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You forgot to cover up the Anglia Television badge on the front end !
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But this porcupine had no scratch on its belly; it had been attacked at the front end instead.
entrance
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At the front entrance there are two wide door openings so access in and out is extremely good.
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Police barricades were set up at the front entrance , and police cars occasionally circled the building.
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As Brassard was leaving, he warned the security man at the front entrance that Celia was expecting a visitor.
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Returning to the front entrance , he found Hendrix still waiting for her food, smoking yet another cigarette.
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The steps at the front entrance were demolished and a ramp was constructed together with new steps.
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They had been strictly segregated from the ladies and gentlemen who entered by the front entrance and walked on carpet.
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She turned from the front entrance .
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Flats with shared front entrances are not particularly desirable either, even if they do have entry phones fitted.
garden
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The house was called Lilac Villa, a name no one used, though the front garden contained several ancient gnarled lilac bushes.
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They disappeared into the front garden of one of the houses.
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Soon we arrived at Tower House, a suburban-style dwelling with a large front garden .
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The brick walls and paving of the front garden are clean and tidy, but rather harsh.
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Mrs Grogan had seen a man half way up the sycamore tree in the Connons' front garden .
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Remember your personal security when viewing front gardens .
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Everyone got down very quickly as another shell exploded in the front garden of a cottage across the road.
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Michael and Geoffrey stood in the Griersons' front garden .
gate
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In autumn a rowan tree at the front gate was showered with berries.
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They locked the front gates of their Seoul home, my residence, and would not let me out.
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Motor cycles will roar away from the front gates and, later, cars.
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Every day seeing her husband and her boys approach the front gate .
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Even more daunting is a flight of 5 steps to her front gate .
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Once we had arrived at my place I parked the car and led Amanda through my front gate and up to the flat.
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Myself, I peered out of the front gate , and acknowledged the two white-helmeted sentries in their box.
lawn
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Julie ambled happily down the long immaculate front lawn , bordered on each side by miniature fruit trees.
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Outside, on the front lawn hoisted atop a wooden flagpole, an eternal blank check waves bravely in the breeze.
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Not much to look at, because the front lawn and the drive to the Manor were a shambles.
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It too had its imposing front lawn and luxurious emptiness.
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The long grass of the front lawns was luminous with golden bars of sunlight.
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They were tearing up the playgrounds and tearing up the front lawns and the porches.
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It's claimed the officers left these tyre marks on the front lawn ... and this typewritten note.
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Nor could he be left alone anymore in the late afternoons when he insisted on watering the front lawn .
line
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But the front line runs across Katanga, and the war cut people off from their fields, leaving them to starve.
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Or his practice of filming in the front line , and even beyond the front line?
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It would be like having all our soldiers in the front line at the same time.
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Warren Goss was among the Federals who were hugging the ground in the front lines .
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We really were in the front line .
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Guns increased in size and range during the war to enable targets far behind the front line to be hit.
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He argued that these were the people on the front line .
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Soldiers in front line , page 3.
man
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Camera crews and their front men cruised the available space looking for celebrities to interview.
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He must shed his spiky exoskeleton and become the front man .
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And he showed he means to make goals a top priority with the £400,000 move for Rangers livewire front man Spencer.
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He was a dynamic band leader and charismatic front man who sang and played saxophone, keyboard and percussion.
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He was a good front man , but the real work was done by his team of four assistants.
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Start with front man Pauly Fuemana, a New Zealander whose vocal style is almost as difficult to place as his accent.
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The service to the front men was much slicker, forcing Charlton back.
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Mr Clayton was simply a front man .
office
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I would have to dress and make up in a small front office .
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But the Negro Leagues, despite their many flaws, did have black owners, managers and front office people.
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All others extensions can be dialled from the front office .
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Which is why the front office felt it was just as crucial to find another dependable reliever as it was another starter.
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The drive to integrate back and front office systems among tour and ferry operators is similarly driving revenues.
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The front office deserves credit, too, for making the right trades at the right time.
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The job can be particularly hectic for front office managers around check-in and check-out time.
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Coaching and the front office have a lot to do with winning and losing, too.
page
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This overflowed into front page news all over the world, even in papers which do not have a fashion page.
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But two and a half years later he was front page news.
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One day she wakes up, sees all that creepiness splashed across the front page .
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He was summarily dismissed from his job and the scandal broke on the front pages of Britain's national press.
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Then the New York stock market crashed, and I got pushed off the front pages .
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The specialist brochures should have a suitable front page which relates to the interests of the target group.
passenger
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In the front passenger seat, the Campbell.
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Storage space for front passengers is skimpy, limited to door pockets and a small center console.
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Stopped at traffic lights, he glanced down at the envelope lying in the shadows on the front passenger seat.
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Her friend Maya McGhee, also 16, was in the front passenger seat.
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As a result his friend Shean Kearney, 23, who was sitting in the front passenger seat was fatally injured.
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The front passenger could do with sturdy grab rail on the dash.
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Dumbo puts me in the front passenger seat and seats himself behind.
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The central locking didn't secure or unlock the front passenger door and all the locks felt rather stiff and gritty.
porch
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The front porch was added in 1751 after the Springetts had had enough of the south-westerly winds.
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Ellie McGlynn was there, standing by herself on the front porch .
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He glared at Yanto with genuine dislike as he stomped through the front porch of the pub.
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So Johnny Appleseed lay down on the front porch and went to sleep.
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The front porch which has various door openings gives excellent room for cooking and storing the rest of your gear.
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She was on the front porch , with Oxie and Fogarty still on the sofa.
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The front porch has various door openings with room to shelter when cooking and to store gear.
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The roof leaked, and the front porch was falling off.
room
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It was a sight as familiar to me as my own front room .
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There in the front room were our chairs lined up in a straight row, just as Mandon had placed them.
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I went back into the scullery and opened the adjoining door to the front room .
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He went quickly through the house to the front room and drew back the curtains.
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The front room was full of everything front rooms were full of when they had the sale after the Festival of Britain.
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Roland Major sat in the middle of the front room that had already been cleaned and refused to help.
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Tom put the blacks up in the front room , crashed around in the darkness and lit the gas and oil lamps.
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Alice said a quick hello and tried to hurry into the front room , but Duvall called her back.
row
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Most of the front row jumped to their feet and fled up the aisle away from the danger.
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He knew he could abuse the front row as much as he wanted.
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He walked without hesitation to the very front row , sat down and lay back, gazing up at the screen.
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Hector sits in the back seat of the front row , nearest the door.
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Assuming he is fit, he will again share the front row of the grid with his Williams team-mate, Riccardo Patrese.
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They would sit there in the front row .
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The caption alongside notes that George Davies, aged 19, is in the front row on the far right.
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Out of deference to me, and for the eventual eradication of our corneas, we sat in the absolute front row .
runner
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The new front runner is New Zealand, co-hosts of the inaugural 1987 World Cup.
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During the fourth round he wavered, the way tournament-long front runners invariably do.
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Members might like to note that Crich is a front runner for next summer's trip.
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Wild Bill Clinton shows he's a real front runner when tackling the big issues.
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The consensus seemed to be emerging: it was an open race but Samuel was clearly the front runner .
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The front runners will, therefore, be zones charges by distance or time and congestion metering.
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Aunt May is only the front runner .
seat
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No bush was present on either front seat buckle of G-AYIH.
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The two that were in the front seats are alive.
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Dominating the space between the two front seats are two grey painted wooden vertical wheels with chunky cut-outs around their periphery.
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There was a driver in the front seat .
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He fell back across the front seats and started being sick.
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Then he sat his boxed bear on the front seat beside him and went for a drive.
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Soon Professor Cousins himself was snoring in the front seat .
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Mike was driving, and Penny was in the front seat .
tooth
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A gleam of light showed its crossed front teeth .
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He was missing two front teeth , and his hair was cut short in a burr.
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You could dig for ever and you wouldn't come up with enough gold to fill your front teeth in.
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His four front teeth are through and two more in the upper jaw are pressing.
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A raisin lodged unattractively between Heather's front teeth but I chose not to tell her about it.
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One of his top front teeth is missing, and there are wide spaces between the others.
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Breathe slowly and rhythmically, pressing the tip of your tongue against the back of your upper front teeth .
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Mr Hendricks ordered until Billy opened his mouth, revealing the black gap of a missing front tooth .
wheel
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So first I disconnect the cable where it joins the front wheel .
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The front wheels threw fist-sized pieces of prairie through the windows.
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He let go the clutch, lifted the front wheel and drove at the far bank, sand-spit dead ahead.
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On our way to Montana our right front wheel come off and we were stranded on the road most all that day.
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I distinctly remember seeing a few of the eggs hitting the spokes of his front wheel as he slowed down.
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A stone had been dislodged by the front wheel and had punctured our diesel tank.
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There should not be any grease in the front wheel bearings, they are lubricated with the oil in the swivel housings.
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The pedals were fitted with toe-traps, which ensured that I landed chin first in whatever caused the front wheel to skid.
window
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The sun was brilliantly mirrored in the front windows .
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Through the front window lay a sprawl of hills, but the window above my bed butted the neighbour's garage.
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Between the front windows was a small mahogany table, over which hung a matching mirror.
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I was strong enough next morning to go and look out of the front window .
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Indeed, as we draw closer, our information is confirmed by the chipped and faded lettering on the front window .
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His deviousness and dishonesty were in the front window for all to see.
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So I shall have to slip into my flat by the front window .
yard
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The ceaseless deluge had turned the small front yard of the cottage into a swamp.
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Lost Jaguar and butterflies Next door, Steve Fischer waded through his front yard .
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Old bicycles and a long-disused pram are scattered across the muddy front yard .
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The guy was standing knock-kneed in his front yard holding a quarter chicken by the end of the drumstick.
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This generation fed on the advertisement-ridden local paper, thick as a book, which was tossed daily on to their front yards .
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And the minute she saw the dress and shoes sitting in the front yard , she broke water.
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But camped out in their front yard , so to speak, we suddenly felt very exposed.
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The third woman went to pull a weed in her front yard and a rattler bit her hand.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
back to front
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Dan appeared in jeans, wearing his cap backward as usual.
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You've got your sweater on back to front.
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And can you fool them, by planting them back to front?
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But supposing X-rays were normally displayed back to front or the way one looked at the person?
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I had an arrow right through my body from back to front somewhere in the region of my lower ribs.
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It was all wrong and back to front, but no one could say the old baggage lacked for courage.
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Papers are missing from each and the sheets inside have been turned back to front, and at angles.
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Row 1: Bring needle from back to front of work through the stitch below the first stitch to be worked.
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The crowd was crammed shoulder to shoulder and back to front on the shrinking piece of roadway.
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They're boys' hips, girls' hips, front to front, back to front.
dangle sth in front of sb/before sb
front/rear/back wheels
in the front line
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It would be like having all our soldiers in the front line at the same time.
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Or his practice of filming in the front line, and even beyond the front line?
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She is trapped in the front line on the killing streets of Western Sarajevo.
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They were sitting in the front line of chairs.
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We really were in the front line.
make the papers/headlines/front page etc
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And the story made the front pages.
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Not surprisingly, the story made the front page of the New York Times and many other papers.
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Print reporters know their stories stand a better chance of making the front page.
out front
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But then that funny copper, Malpass, had known I'd been out front on Sunday.
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Her flowers out front may have changed but little else has, it would appear.
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I left the car out front and climbed the wide marble steps to the entrance hall.
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I stayed out front hoping to get another look at the girl if she came out.
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Should they stop because the people out front were drowning everything coming from the stage?
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That the police chief was parked out front?
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There was some kind of commotion out front.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He leaned across the front seat of the car and grabbed her arm as she tried to get out.
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Laura always sits in the front row at the movies.
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The dog rested its head on its front paws.
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There was a "For Sale" sign on the front lawn.
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There was a large picture of Bush on the front page of the evening newspaper.
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You should have knocked on the front door.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A year earlier, he qualified on the front row of the F1 grid in a Formula Two Matra.
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First, we pass a couple of wooden family motels, complete with front porch parked up with juggernauts.
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For years its front door remained locked.
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I was strong enough next morning to go and look out of the front window.
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Jump diagonally back with the rear foot and perform a front foot roundhouse kick.
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Teague crawled into the front seat and sat on my lap.
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The key to the front door was tied on to a little ribbon pinned into my pocket.
III. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
band
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He'd played with a few friends over the years but never managed to overcome the logistics of forming and fronting a band .
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There is certainly no evidence that Steven Morrissey ever considered himself capable of fronting a band in these wilderness years.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
back to front
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Dan appeared in jeans, wearing his cap backward as usual.
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You've got your sweater on back to front.
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And can you fool them, by planting them back to front?
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But supposing X-rays were normally displayed back to front or the way one looked at the person?
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I had an arrow right through my body from back to front somewhere in the region of my lower ribs.
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It was all wrong and back to front, but no one could say the old baggage lacked for courage.
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Papers are missing from each and the sheets inside have been turned back to front, and at angles.
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Row 1: Bring needle from back to front of work through the stitch below the first stitch to be worked.
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The crowd was crammed shoulder to shoulder and back to front on the shrinking piece of roadway.
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They're boys' hips, girls' hips, front to front, back to front.
front/rear/back wheels
in the front line
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It would be like having all our soldiers in the front line at the same time.
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Or his practice of filming in the front line, and even beyond the front line?
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She is trapped in the front line on the killing streets of Western Sarajevo.
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They were sitting in the front line of chairs.
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We really were in the front line.
out front
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But then that funny copper, Malpass, had known I'd been out front on Sunday.
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Her flowers out front may have changed but little else has, it would appear.
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I left the car out front and climbed the wide marble steps to the entrance hall.
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I stayed out front hoping to get another look at the girl if she came out.
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Should they stop because the people out front were drowning everything coming from the stage?
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That the police chief was parked out front?
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There was some kind of commotion out front.
put on a brave face/front
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He was shattered, though he put on a brave face.
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I suppose parents have to put on a brave face.
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Leaving the court the families all tried to put on a brave face.
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Meanwhile, Llandundo put on a brave face yesterday and struggled to get back to normal after last week's devastating floods.
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Newspaper staff put on a brave face.
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No one said a word all of us were consciously putting on a brave face.
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Whether in denial or putting on a brave face, the delegates professed to be unperturbed by those numbers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Genesis was originally fronted by Peter Gabriel.
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The Hyatt hotel fronts a beach called Shipwreck.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He is set to front a new rescue package, with a mystery backer ready to invest a substantial sum.
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The city would have to front a mere $ 9 million or so to implement the plan.
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Through a scattering of gray adobe houses, all identical, I would go to the house fronted with mulberry trees.
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When you stepped out of hiding and fronted me, this same face looked over your shoulder.