Example sentences of "face with [pron] " in BNC.

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1 PEOPLE from a housing estate have been putting themselves on the map — and others have the unnerving prospect of coming face to face with themselves .
2 He thought it over , to judge by his frowning face with something of a struggle , and gave way reluctantly .
3 He has a right to come face to face with me , and judge for himself whether he can honourably deliver them , and never fear that he is helping to lure a brave man to his death . ’
4 A lot of people do n't come face to face with me here
5 Dennis Hopper went to the meeting with Manson and sat face to face with him for two hours in a room on the eighth floor of the Hall of Justice .
6 Having now met each other , it seemed that everywhere I went on camp I would come face to face with him , usually with his entourage of armourers fanning out behind him .
7 It is no longer face to face with him but is integrated with him and it progressively absorbs him .
8 Face to face with him ( the first time since receiving their inheritance from him ) , they attack his claimed need for a hundred knights .
9 One Saturday morning Bob came face to face with him as he emerged from the communal bathroom on the first half-landing .
10 I wanted to meet Marius Durance — I 've always especially admired his work and it seemed crazy to be so close and not come face to face with him .
11 But she could not see all the way , it was feasible that he was on a lower flight and she would come face to face with him .
12 Every time she imagined coming face to face with him her stomach knotted .
13 In fact , this was a totally disastrous time for her to come face to face with him .
14 Coming face to face with him after all this time had been a shock ; she had not known quite how she would react .
15 She was n't going to run much risk of rounding a corner and coming face to face with him — and , even if she did , so what ?
16 ‘ Do those people at unemployment offices know what it 's like to come face to face with them ? ’ said Sharon .
17 Bill had the opportunity to sit face to face with them and you catch his eye , you you used to er time to er use , use hand gestures and show things to them on , on presenters .
18 The first Fairy is slow and gracious to denote Beauty ; she encircles her face with her hand and displays the line of her arm ( the traditional gesture for beauty ) .
19 She takes the towel off me and then squats down and begins brushing bits of hair off of my face with her fingers .
20 Lily covered her face with her hands and began to sob .
21 Dimity covered her face with her hands and her thin shoulders shook .
22 Then she kicked it away and sank onto the bed covering her face with her hands .
23 Kelly covered her face with her hands .
24 But now I had come face to face with her four days after she stood before the House of Commons and declared that there were too many hospital beds in London , and that as a result , St Bartholomew 's Hospital , along with numerous others great and small , would have to close , merge or become emasculated .
25 Mum covered her face with her apron and cried noisily , but she got no sympathy from Jack who pushed past Dad and left , leaving her to face the music .
26 She traced the outline of his face with her eyes , loving the dear , untidy hair , the mouth that smiled widely and often , the eyes that were old in a young man 's face .
27 She yawned sleepily and slipped down the bank to the water 's edge to wash her face with her paws .
28 ‘ What do you mean ? ’ sputtered Anabelle , drying her face with her paws .
29 She kicked him in the face with her boot-heel , and he got a grip on her knee .
30 She scratched down a face with her desert-hardened claws , and broke some ribs with an elbow .
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