Example sentences of "face [prep] [noun] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jess was a mellow sort of chap until he came face to face with a light bulb |
| 2 | Joey 's used to dealing with difficult customers , but when he comes face to face with a gun-toting angry young man , it takes all his soothing charm to save the day . |
| 3 | YOU can not look at anything these days without coming face to face with a picture of a blissful couple holding a baby . |
| 4 | Zambia padded to the door , coming face to face with a wriggling Ari , still firmly in the grip of Reynard Lennon . |
| 5 | When we come face to face with a horse we often feel a need or pressure to do something . |
| 6 | These are reluctant hunters , ill at ease and inexperienced , wary lest a nervous glance could give flesh to fear — the fear of coming face to face with a cowering countryman , the fear of finding the loaded chamber in a game of Russian roulette . |
| 7 | Most people want to like art — they know it 's good for you , or at any rate looks good on you — but face to face with a great painting they feel like gate-crashers at a Mayfair reception . |
| 8 | Squirrels and martins moved in the trees , and once they came almost face to face with a boar . |
| 9 | Like a cat confronted by pigeons , or a terrier face to face with a rodent , I was ready and eager to do battle . |
| 10 | In Liddie 's case , however , it had brought her face to face with a disenchanted childhood which she had not wanted to recognize . |
| 11 | DRINK Shots into oblivion A sober Laurie Taylor comes face to face with a bloody awful drug |
| 12 | But how would the British react to being given the chance to air their views face to face with a politician ? |
| 13 | Thus he persuaded himself when writing to Theo , but not when he was face to face with a spitting hell-cat who abused him vilely , telling him to stop messing about with his stupid painting , scraping and altering it until her nerves were in shreds . |
| 14 | I was amazed when , 30 more yards up the gully , I cam face to face with a blank , moss-covered wall . |
| 15 | They 're all in there while from the generation before , we come face to face with a champion whose greatness spanned almost three decades , ‘ Pancho Gonzales ’ . |
| 16 | Turning a corner along a narrow track , I came face to face with a blustering capercaillie , as big as a turkey . |
| 17 | The old standards have decayed , the aristocracy no longer take the intellectual lead ; men of letters and booksellers are left face to face with a multitude of readers whose intellectual appetites and tastes are emancipated from all direct influence and control . |
| 18 | But suppose that he proceeds in the general direction from where he assumed by voice came and suddenly found himself face to face with a stranger who looked very similar to myself . |
| 19 | How d' you think you 're going to feel , Joey , when we come face to face with a herd of elephant or a tawny tiger out there ? " |
| 20 | Now although I am a born sceptic , suddenly being brought face to face with a seemingly identical facsimile of what I had been working on did make me pause for a few moments ! |
| 21 | Now and then a circulating pirate might come face to face with a Familo thug , and there would be some ritual snarling and glaring . |
| 22 | With lots of luck I came face to face with a round face man in uniform . |
| 23 | And now she was face to face with a man who really believed her grandmother was guilty . |
| 24 | He was never happier than when watching Morse come face to face with a mystery : it vas like watching his chief tackle some fiendishly devised crossword ( as Lewis had often done ) , with the virgin grid on the table in front of him , almost immediately coming up with some sort of answer to the majority of the clues — and then with Lewis himself , albeit only occasionally , supplying one blindingly obvious answer to the easiest clue in the puzzle , and the only one that Morse had failed to fathom . |
| 25 | She could only make a calculated guess ; sheer horror at coming face to face with a former lover when the present one stood stiffly beside him . |
| 26 | Shock attack : An 80year-old woman is recovering from shock after coming face to face with a burglar who stole jewellery from her Wirral home in Spencer Avenue , Rock Ferry . |
| 27 | In Glasgow yesterday he came face to face with a cost-saving dream . |
| 28 | Charlie found he was continually spitting out mud and once even came face to face with a German who could n't blink . |
| 29 | She was standing face to face with a boy in the public park at the end of Decimus Street . |
| 30 | If a killer thinks , even if only for a split second , that it is face to face with an owl or an eagle , it is very likely to back away and this may give the harmless bluffer enough time to escape . |