The phrase "approached in front of" is not correct and may lead to confusion in written English.
It is typically used in contexts where someone or something is coming closer to another person or object from a position in front, but the phrasing is awkward.
Example: "The dog approached in front of the car, causing the driver to slam on the brakes."
Alternatives: "came forward" or "moved up to".
And nobody needed one as badly as Lieutenant Fanale, standing, as sundown approached, in front of St. Patrick's Old Cathedral.
As Mr. Bullard tells it, he was approached in front of his house by undercover officers who did not identify themselves.
A neighbor of Ms. Arroyo's on the ninth floor of 953 DeKalb Avenue, Vona Smith, said she was approached in front of the building yesterday by two men dressed as maintenance workers, who showed her a photo of Crystal.
The two robbers approached him in front of the building, possibly thinking he had just made a cash withdrawal, the authorities said.
In the first attack, in the afternoon on March 24, a woman was pushing her 4-month-old baby in a stroller up Queens Boulevard in Forest Hills when the man approached her in front of her building.
The New Yorker, July 22 , 1961P. 20 Entry in Front Office Log, which is kept behind the desk at the Hotel New Weston: Harry ____, the Doorman, reported that a young woman wearing a mink coat approached him in front of the 50th Street Entrance and grabbed his whistle out of his hand.
By C. L. McNelly and St. Clair McKelway The New Yorker, July 22, 1961 P. 20 Entry in Front Office Log, which is kept behind the desk at the Hotel New Weston: Harry ____, the Doorman, reported that a young woman wearing a mink coat approached him in front of the 50th Street Entrance and grabbed his whistle out of his hand.
Entry in Front Office Log, which is kept behind the desk at the Hotel New Weston: Harry ____, the Doorman, reported that a young woman wearing a mink coat approached him in front of the 50th Street Entrance and grabbed his whistle out of his hand.
You must avoid following or approaching directly in front of whales, which could cause the whale to change directions.
Never approach them in front of other people or ever joke about their weight.
They created driving mauls that led first to Mako Vunipola being sent to the sin-bin for dragging one to the floor and then to a penalty try when Owen Farrell adopted an equally unacceptable approach in front of the referee, Greg Garner.
