Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By some terrific fluke Richard came face to face with his future at the precise time he most needed to see it . |
| 2 | The world-famous pecussionist Evelyn Glennie came face to face with the musicians of the future today . |
| 3 | Young guitarist Eric Clapton paid tribute to King by purposely copying one of his hit solos . |
| 4 | Within the intestinal mucosa , expression of T cell mediated immunity to gliadin in the gut occurs across a spectrum of histological and functional abnormalities . |
| 5 | This loss of faith in course-based INSET to influence practice gave rise to growth of school-based INSET : the INSET equivalent of school-based curriculum development . |
| 6 | But according to several Washington commentators and analysts , in sending senior aides to China , Mr Bush may have signalled that the Administration gave priority to continuity in relations over moral outrage , and thus helped to shore up the repressive Beijing regime . |
| 7 | Sex in Miranda 's experience was n't a matter of spectacle , but of darkness and touch , magnified by her senses ' usually exacerbated state , the extremes of the night , of smoking and drinking and hunger and tiredness , and she was a blind swimmer through walls of warm water , and knew nothing of the practice and technique of the models in the pictures crammed edge to edge in the shop . |
| 8 | There was a full moon and we marched until midnight , the camels tied head to tail in groups of three or four . |
| 9 | And we gazed into the little flickering fire , grieving once more for the parents brought face to face with reality . |
| 10 | In the summer of 1989 , as a Standard Liege player , Rosenthal put pen to paper on a deal with Udinese and spent two weeks there . |
| 11 | As Big Ben ticked … the cameras clicked as the oarsman of Oxford and Cambridge came face to face for the official challenge |
| 12 | Oxford and Cambridge came face to face for the first time today when the scales were set for the official weigh-in . |
| 13 | Surrounded by admiring fans , the young author put pen to paper with an already practiced style , pretty slick for a 10 year old — especially considering he wrote his book when he was 7 . |
| 14 | The tough treatment of childhood Carol Reed had offered in The Fallen Idol gave way to feyness in A Kid for Two Farthings ( 1955 ) while Robert Hamer , expelled from Ealing , shifted from the controlled savagery in Kind Hearts and Coronets via the eccentric Father Brown ( 1954 , The Detective in US ) to such routine comedy assignments as To Paris with Love ( 1954 ) and School for Scoundrels ( 1959 ) . |
| 15 | The authority or aristocracy and armed excise officers came face to face with the fact that a substantial part of the rural and urban population alike either connived at , or were intimidated by , the activities of well-organised armed gangs . |
| 16 | On the afternoon of Saturday 27 July 1689 the two armies came face to face at the pass of Killiecrankie , about midway between Pitlochry and Blair Castle , where the road ran through a narrow valley beside a deep gorge . |
| 17 | Although the political establishment apparently accepted that the family was entitled to some role during the minority , its closeness to the young king gave rise to anxiety about how that role would develop . |
| 18 | Although the political establishment apparently accepted that the family was entitled to some role during the minority , its closeness to the young king gave rise to anxiety about how that role would develop . |
| 19 | Our hood added insult to embarrassment by breaking the poppers on its leading edge one after the other until David Vivian found himself circumnavigating the M25 one evening with one hand on the wheel and another holding the hood to keep it from flying off . |
| 20 | With that decision people came face to face with the expectation known to the early Christians soon after the Crucifixion and to the deeply religious who shivered at the approach of the year A.D. 1000 — the expectation that they might indeed see the end of the world in their lifetime . |
| 21 | As Spaniards came face to face with their country 's impotence , backwardness and inescapably second-class status , there arose a confused chorus of demands for the ‘ regeneration ’ of what was widely seen as a ‘ decadent ’ nation . |
| 22 | Moments earlier 18-year-old Fisher came face to face with victim Mary Jo Buttafuoco for the first time since the doorstep shooting . |
| 23 | The Italian parliament after protracted debate approved on Jan. 16 ( by 382 to 201 in the Chamber of Deputies and by 190 to 96 in the Senate ) a motion providing for Italian participation in an " international policing operation " to secure Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait ; the wording was significant in that Italy 's Constitution forbade recourse to war as a means of settling international disputes . |
| 24 | This last demand gave rise to speculation about the level of the involvement of the army leadership in the organization of the coup . |
| 25 | TWO North-East councillors came face to face in court for the first time yesterday over allegations that they assaulted each other . |
| 26 | When the French and the Vietminh came face to face in the south there was , apparently , no room for compromise and conflict was almost immediate . |
| 27 | For H. G. Wells , the change to Bonar Law marked a distasteful new attitude by the Unionists ; when Balfour 's " essential liberalism came face to face with this new baseness of commercialized imperialism , with all its push and energy , he made a very poor fight for it . |
| 28 | One Saturday morning Bob came face to face with him as he emerged from the communal bathroom on the first half-landing . |
| 29 | In an address on March 9 Soglo paid tribute to Kerekou for accepting the political reforms , and promised to work towards consolidating democracy . |
| 30 | There were moments when he took on too much ; and although I pursued the matter of our volume only because he had invited me to do so , I soon realized that I was asking more than I should have done , especially as I was uncertain at any moment whether my collaborators saw eye to eye with me about the scope of our project . |