Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [unc] face " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she smiled , stroking Melanie 's face again , so tenderly that Melanie closed her eyes and imagined it was her own mother caressing her or any mother caressing any child . |
| 2 | The Monster delivers forearm smashes — one , two , three to the liquidised liver and spinach , spattering Ma 's face and pink cardigan . |
| 3 | With every crack of the wood he was seeing Madra 's face , and the tears springing into it . |
| 4 | Jay sipped and etched Lucy 's face and gestures on her mind , in the rose-pink glow of having seen her weeping and helpless , thinking she was alone . |
| 5 | She stroked Ari 's face . |
| 6 | Colour swamped Ruth 's face and she turned away . |
| 7 | She reached across the table and stroked Matthew 's face . |
| 8 | Annabel Hogan 's face was set in warning lines . |
| 9 | This increasingly is becoming Wallingford 's face . |
| 10 | The scientist whose art created Eila 's face . |
| 11 | John searches Paul 's face . |
| 12 | Slowly , carefully , she did so , to find Fen 's face only inches from hers . |
| 13 | His reputation was such , however , that a photographer from the New York Times arrived and another member of the audience was so overwhelmed by the occasion that she described Eliot 's face as " that of an archangel who has too much work to do , and so does only half of it leaving the rest to the North Wind " . |
| 14 | Uncertainty made Alexei 's face appear even more youthful . |
| 15 | imagine Dennis 's face . |
| 16 | And remembering Johnny 's face when he had talked of Dusty Miller , she knew that neither he nor his friends found the whole thing much of a joke , either . |
| 17 | ‘ If I read you rightly , ’ said Radulfus , having searched Cadfael 's face , and found it in very grave earnest , ‘ you are saying that the young man was attacked in mistake for a Benedictine brother . ’ |
| 18 | I 'll do Pete 's face . |
| 19 | Her head snapped back down in a flurry of bouncing coppery hair , her eyes warily searching Lucenzo 's face for some sign of compassion . |
| 20 | Searching Ellie 's face , perhaps looking for some resemblance , she gave a funny little sigh . |
| 21 | Increasingly worried , Comfort dried Julia 's face as gently as she could , threw the water away and went back to her chair to watch . |
| 22 | He could hear only the sound of Sam 's tongue lathering Tom 's face and a gentle breeze gliding through the trees . |
| 23 | Mallachy turned away from Jessica , Karen studied Rory 's face . |
| 24 | Searching Phena 's face for a response , and finding none , she sighed . |
| 25 | He stood over Byron , searching Byron 's face . |
| 26 | All of them had seen Ana 's face . |
| 27 | After twenty minutes he was quite awake , and he suddenly noticed Mary 's face . |
| 28 | Dr Neil had seen McAllister 's face change even as he spoke so carelessly to her . |
| 29 | He had seen McAllister 's face just before her trip and something had alerted him , even before everything had landed in Teresa Darrell 's lap . |
| 30 | But he had never seen Farouk 's face . |