Example sentences of "be [verb] face to [noun sg] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had never been brought face to face with her great-uncle , and never devoted any conscious thought to him . |
| 2 | By January 1946 de Gaulle had been brought face to face with the reality that a basic incompatibility of outlook and temperament existed between himself and the members of the assembly . |
| 3 | We are brought face to face with the question , ‘ What is the purpose of human life itself ? ’ |
| 4 | Offenders are brought face to face with people who 've lost loved ones in drink-driving accidents . |
| 5 | SUMMERCHILD : Actually , I do feel a little as if I were coming face to face with my past in some kind of way . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | One result of this moral panic was that , even as the anxiety mentioned by Furlong ( ibid. ) forced us to react to these public demands with some arrests , we insiders with ‘ special knowledge ’ , who were working face to face with the counter-culture , knew there was a different social reality abroad which we could never adequately explain to the entrepreneur or encapsulate for the media headline . |
| 8 | ‘ Sometimes one is brought face to face with facts which can not be buried . |
| 9 | A survey conducted on behalf of the Institute of Marketing into selling practice in the UK ( PA Consultants , 1979 ) found that , on average , only 20–30 per cent of a salesperson 's normal working day is spent face to face with customers . |
| 10 | Besides , the last thing she wanted was to come face to face with Rune again , especially if he was in the arms of a reconciled Lotta ! |
| 11 | While travelling on the mainland of South America , Darwin was brought face to face with the conflict that was under way between the European settlers and the native Indians . |
| 12 | She was standing face to face with a boy in the public park at the end of Decimus Street . |