Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [noun sg] to [noun sg] with " 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 | And we gazed into the little flickering fire , grieving once more for the parents brought face to face with reality . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Moments earlier 18-year-old Fisher came face to face with victim Mary Jo Buttafuoco for the first time since the doorstep shooting . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | One Saturday morning Bob came face to face with him as he emerged from the communal bathroom on the first half-landing . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Jumping the last two steps and turning into the hall , Hilary came face to face with Ryan . |
| 13 | Robin Child absolutely refuses to grade , and when O-levels gave way to GCSE with all its internal coursework and marking , he rejected it . |
| 14 | ROCK star Cher came face to face with ex-husband Sonny for the first time in five years … and loathed it . |