Example sentences of "had [verb] face to [noun sg] with " in BNC.
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1 | The memory of the terrible moment she had come face to face with Salt rolled over her . |
2 | But now I had come face to face with her four days after she stood before the House of Commons and declared that there were too many hospital beds in London , and that as a result , St Bartholomew 's Hospital , along with numerous others great and small , would have to close , merge or become emasculated . |
3 | The poor fellow thought he had come face to face with an alien . |
4 | Like Hamlet , they had come face to face with its essential horror and absurdity . |
5 | At least once in their lives , most of these men would have met Thorfinn : more perhaps than had come face to face with King Duncan in the six years of his reign and before , when he had been prince of Cumbria in the shadow of Malcolm his grandfather . |
6 | On his way home , he had come face to face with the two youths with whom he had argued earlier . |