Example sentences of "[noun] 's face when [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had gripped the gnome 's face when I heard the weaving , low registers of Leon 's clarinet . |
| 2 | I wanted to see the look on Valerie 's face when she opened the door . |
| 3 | She was just bending over to pat powder on to a young actress 's face when she heard the door open behind her and a strange tingle of apprehension prickled the back of her neck . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Imagine the horror on my beloved 's face when he discovered I had in fact flung in the rubbish his much prized and read collection of Guitarist magazines ! |
| 6 | The scared look on the girl 's face when she caught sight of Wycliffe in the yard . |
| 7 | He remembered the child 's face when he 'd tried to explain to her about devils . |
| 8 | ‘ You should have seen Mrs Little 's face when I walked in . |
| 9 | Yet for all his own pleasure at tracing this evidence , Dixon could see little in his report which might have accounted for the look of extraordinary triumph he had seen on Morse 's face when he reported in at 2.45 p.m . |
| 10 | ‘ Did you notice Matthew 's face when I said she was here ? |
| 11 | Can you imagine Roy 's face when he comes home to everything nice and clean and homely ? |
| 12 | Did you see Bruce 's face when they went 2–0 up ? ? |
| 13 | She remembered the doctor telling her , as gently as he could , that it was unlikely that she would have more children , and the shocked look on her husband 's face when he heard the news . |
| 14 | Goldberg 's face when I told him , he wrote . |
| 15 | All she could think of was the panic on the other woman 's face when she 'd seen her . |
| 16 | Have you , have you ever seen the expression on a man 's face when he takes the out , do a crap , stand up and find it 's not there ? |
| 17 | But , from Quigley 's face when he came out , I gathered that that was precisely what they were intending to do with him . |
| 18 | But this , and the look of disdain on Sandra 's face when I mention the Material Girl as one of the consummate Eighties pop stars , makes it fairly certain that the two are no longer official Best Friends . |
| 19 | He was trying to imagine Yanto 's face when she asked him . |
| 20 | Did you see Stuart 's face when I left him ? |