Example sentences of "his face have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His face had reddened . |
| 2 | The blood was oozing out from the tip of his boot and his face had turned the usual grey colour of the soldier who had been wounded . |
| 3 | Forster was laying where they had left him , except the raw area of his face had turned into a slimy mess . |
| 4 | His face had turned quite pale and beads of perspiration had broken out across his forehead . |
| 5 | His face had turned grey . |
| 6 | His face had turned a bluish-yellow and his stomach was swollen , straining against the thin linen shirt . |
| 7 | A ruddiness in his face had given way to a pallor that was unmistakably the work of the cells . |
| 8 | His face had lost its boyish roundness , and there was the debated moustache — I had always said I did n't fancy him with one — quite splendid , and at once my prejudice vanished . |
| 9 | His face had become very white , his eyes almost sunken in their sockets . |
| 10 | His face had become cold and hard , like a face that could not smile and never had . |
| 11 | Corbett glanced at the favourite , noting how pale his face had become . |
| 12 | His face had become grim . |
| 13 | His face had become inscrutable . |
| 14 | His face had filled out , the slight hollows beneath his cheekbones owing nothing to hunger and serving only to accentuate his agreeable features ; the slight tilt of his nose , the long , Irish upper lip , the blueness of his eyes . |
| 15 | His face had coloured at the use of his Christian name , and he 'd grabbed her hand with renewed courage . |
| 16 | His face had grown so thin that as he spoke you could plainly see the elaborate machinery of his jaw setting to work with all its strings , sockets and pulleys . |
| 17 | His face had grown pale at the harshness of the rebuke and he drew a long breath before replying . |
| 18 | Since she had seen him in Marlott , his face had grown more thoughtful . |
| 19 | His face had grown hard as flint , the skin taut and bloodless . |
| 20 | The expression on his face had grown hard and grim as he 'd scanned the paper in his hands , before angrily crunching it up into a ball and hurling it into a nearby waste-paper basket . |
| 21 | Isobel glanced at her husband , and saw his face had hardened , and that his eyes were angry . |
| 22 | His face had lengthened and hardened ; the lines on his face were deeply etched . |
| 23 | His face had gone very red and looked as if it had been sprayed with water . |
| 24 | His face had gone into something soft that his nose told him was dog dirt . |
| 25 | If it was courage , his face had expressed indifference , but his back had conveyed desperation , while he had slid through the door with his body touching the wall . |
| 26 | And she could still feel the moment when hope , as his face had bent towards her , had melted into an emotion much more like disappointment . |
| 27 | His face had relaxed . |
| 28 | When he 'd left London his face had had the pinched , strained look , the hollow eyes that long illness seem to give . |
| 29 | Not only his face had changed ; imprisonment and hardship had changed his sweet good nature , too . |
| 30 | As he looked down to put his pistol away in its holster I noticed that his face had changed . |