Example sentences of "been [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the face " in BNC.

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1 The answer had been staring him in the face .
2 It 's been staring me in the face . ’
3 ‘ It 's been staring me in the face , ’ Carlson continued .
4 Anyway , you know , I 'd been er , it has been staring me in the face for so often .
5 ‘ Your deadly weapon has been staring you in the face from the moment you first arrived here , Fakrid , ’ he said .
6 ‘ It 's been staring us in the face all this time .
7 Actually , as R. A. Fisher , one of the founding fathers of what is now called neo-Darwinism , has pointed out , this fact of particulate inheritance has always been staring us in the face , every time we think about sex .
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