Example sentences of "[pos pn] face was " in BNC.
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| 1 | The redness in my face was no longer of anger , but embarrassment , and even warmth . |
| 2 | My face was on dead leaves and dried grass and pieces of twig . |
| 3 | Mrs Bowers , 30 , who still bears some scars from the attack last March , told the court : ‘ It felt like my face was physically moving all over the place and burning . ’ |
| 4 | My face was tingling with fear and I felt in imminent need of a toilet-roll . |
| 5 | Trouble was : if my face was Gothic , my hair should be Gothic too . |
| 6 | My ice-cream and my face was spattered by the animal 's urine — which had ricocheted from the wall on to me . |
| 7 | The blood on my face was not mine — though she was not to know this . |
| 8 | ‘ My face was so painful I was nearly in tears |
| 9 | And he 'd bounce me on my bed and make a ‘ little nest ’ by tucking the ends of the eiderdown under my pillow until all but my face was cocooned . |
| 10 | My face was cut with showers of glass from the car 's windscreen . |
| 11 | ‘ Then the door fell on top of me and my face was cut by broken glass . ’ |
| 12 | By the time I got back to my parents ' house my face was grey . |
| 13 | My eyes were puffed up and my face was covered with red spots . |
| 14 | Wish I knew whether my face was burnt . |
| 15 | Crouched beside me looking anxiously into my face was Jane , the other Jane . |
| 16 | My face was hot and my hands were shaking . |
| 17 | In order to make conversation easier , I lay on my side so that my face was close to him . |
| 18 | Not only that but my face was unscarred , unpitted . |
| 19 | Every night my mother curled my hair with rags and my face was covered in freckles . |
| 20 | But when I moved forward , my face was instantly smothered in cobweb so thick and heavy it seemed like damp , clinging rag . |
| 21 | I could n't eat , because of the cuts , could n't drink — they were feeding us milk through straws — and my face was beginning to get septicaemia as we lay in this hut with just this little oil- lamp , and the mosquitoes at night would come and sit on the wounds , and I could n't stop thinking about what was going to happen next in my life , and we had no newspapers and I did n't know what was happening and I could n't cry because it pulled the stitches . |
| 22 | My face was as red as a tomato as I was shown to my seat . |
| 23 | That my face was getting fat ? |
| 24 | My face was banged against the wall and my assailants disappeared . |
| 25 | After a couple of squashes I felt very happy and my face was glowing . |
| 26 | That seemed to have been what he had in mind , as he put a paw on the back of my neck and bent me forward until my face was squished into the table top . |
| 27 | He looked at me closely with those brown-stained eyes not telling anything and I hoped my face was just as calm and natural . |
| 28 | ‘ Even if my face was right , my body is not . |
| 29 | And I 'm sure my face was a picture . |
| 30 | Staring at him from its face was Rock Hardy , the hero of his favourite comic-strip . |