Example sentences of "come [noun] to [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we come face to face with a horse we often feel a need or pressure to do something . |
| 2 | They 're all in there while from the generation before , we come face to face with a champion whose greatness spanned almost three decades , ‘ Pancho Gonzales ’ . |
| 3 | How d' you think you 're going to feel , Joey , when we come face to face with a herd of elephant or a tawny tiger out there ? " |
| 4 | He was never happier than when watching Morse come face to face with a mystery : it vas like watching his chief tackle some fiendishly devised crossword ( as Lewis had often done ) , with the virgin grid on the table in front of him , almost immediately coming up with some sort of answer to the majority of the clues — and then with Lewis himself , albeit only occasionally , supplying one blindingly obvious answer to the easiest clue in the puzzle , and the only one that Morse had failed to fathom . |
| 5 | Well , for once a 25-year-old test with the fastest figures this magazine had ever produced at the time seems positively understated when you come face to face with the reality . |
| 6 | Against that , Labour in the person of Harold Wilson had a more widely respected leader then it has now , and many experienced Tory canvassers are convinced that thousands of former Tory voters who are now thinking of defecting will gloomily return to the Tory fold within the next few days as they come face to face with the possible reality of a Kinnock government . |
| 7 | Many people had worked on the paper for twenty years , and never once come face to face with the Editor . |
| 8 | Robyn knew that if she opened her eyes she would see the speaker , come face to face with the resigned irritation . |
| 9 | A blockage can also occur when two rabbits come face to face in a hole of small diameter . |