Example sentences of "face as [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carrie felt sad when she saw the worried looks on their faces as they sat talking quietly , their hands cupped around mugs of steaming hot tea . |
| 2 | Silas 's scowl remained on his face as they continued to walk along the track . |
| 3 | A POLICEMAN was kneed in the groin and another punched in the face as they tried to break up brawling schoolgirls at a railway station . |
| 4 | Because the fingers within her own warm hands ceased to flutter agitatedly , a brief smile flickering over the other girl 's pale face as she seemed to drift off into a more comfortable , easy sleep . |
| 5 | Lindsey lay for a few seconds , battling with a sense of disorientation , one arm flung over her face as she tried to remember where she was . |
| 6 | Colour flooded her face as she tried to struggle to her feet , desperate to evade the hand that was stretched towards her . |
| 7 | Thinking of the provocatively slow way she might later take off her shiny red boots , dark hair falling down over her placidly unconcerned face as she bent to remove them , thinking of the longer , slower flow of her otherwise quick young body as she discarded her clothing bit by bit and turned with a sudden smile of submission towards his already rumpled bed , he was also holding in to himself and caressing within himself the glass-cased ideal of a woman — a Princess — who could be worshipped without being touched by bonily clutching fingers , who could transform him without being stickied by any of his bodily fluids . |
| 8 | His hand cupped her face as he seemed to delve into her soul . |
| 9 | Fran drew back as though he had struck her , her face going pale as she saw the amusement on his face as he continued to study her . |
| 10 | Antoine 's brown eyes lost that blind unfocused look ; she noticed a faint smile wander over his face as he began to see more clearly . |
| 11 | " Well , " Mr Smith began , a pained expression on his face as he turned to look at Grout again , " if that 's the way you really feel , Steve … " |
| 12 | She also got quite a shock when she saw his face as he turned to look at her on film . |
| 13 | Meredith watched the struggle on the man 's face as he tried to control his wayward mouth , and wondered why he did n't want to grin when he was so obviously amused by her cheek . |
| 14 | I can still see his grinning face as he tried to chase me . |
| 15 | ‘ Every time , I just see his grinning face as he tried to chase me , ’ she said . |
| 16 | She lay watching his face as he tried to concentrate on the complexities of the novel . |
| 17 | Apparently , the blank white space on that page matched the expression on my face as I envisaged programming the Alpha 2.0 unaided . |