Example sentences of "'s face [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jennifer remembered Tristram 's face grinning through the wall , and the firm warm clasp of his hand as he reached through to her ; she remembered a night when the moonlight was like mercury on the trees — and she remembered her own sudden cry of love and joy , which Mrs Prynn had thought was the deadly shriek of a mandrake and which had caused her to go down to the lower scullery to see if Jennifer was safe . |
| 2 | They all watched the door as it opened and Donald 's face poked round the edge , and then they all looked at each other and they all thought the same thought : Now ? |
| 3 | I saw Pike 's face pressed to the glass . |
| 4 | Richard 's face pressed into the pillow under the unmoving weight . |
| 5 | He looked at his son 's face illuminated by the firelight . |
| 6 | Robyn 's face contorted with the effort of appearing calm . |
| 7 | John Delaney 's face came into the dream . |
| 8 | Terhune 's face pushed through the window into the workings of the command module . |
| 9 | Rachel 's face glistened in the gloom as she urged herself to her climax — sweat and staring eyes , tongue darting between dry lips , breath panting . |
| 10 | She grabbed her mug of tea , gripping it in both hands and staring down into it with an expression of such misery that one could almost imagine the dead girl 's face reflected in the surface of the liquid . |
| 11 | The General 's face hangs in the dark , like a lantern . |
| 12 | Indeed , only Lenin 's face appeared on the square this year ; Marx and Engels were missing . |
| 13 | She lifted a hand to shade her eyes and Martin Jackson 's face appeared on the backdrop of light , as if he were looking at her from the sun 's centre . |
| 14 | She held it with one hand while the other went to her throat , as Nellie 's face appeared at the door . |
| 15 | A woman 's face appeared around the door . |
| 16 | She swept back a handful of Lucy 's hair and pinned it up , first on one side and then on the other ; but before she 'd reached for the scissors to begin , Charlie 's face appeared around the doorway . |
| 17 | The Doctor 's face appeared from the darkness , smiling . |
| 18 | Gently slide your hands over your partner 's face starting from the chin , circling the eyes and over the forehead . |
| 19 | Vic hoots impatiently at the barrier ; the security man 's face appears at the window and flashes an ingratiating smile . |
| 20 | John 's face stung from the blow , he was speechless . |
| 21 | Charlie 's face changed from the face of the bank-clerk to that of an unknown and — though he would not have believed this — a much shrewder man . |
| 22 | Laura 's face peeped from the back . |
| 23 | Some smiled , some frowned , and the King 's face darkened at the beggar 's pride and shamelessness . |