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Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] face to face " in BNC.

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1	It is reported that , while out riding in Wychwood Forest , he suddenly came face to face with the shade of Amy Robsart .
2	It is at the handing over of the engagement dower that the mothers finally meet face to face — or burgah to burgah .
3	If he does , he may just come face to face with himself .
4	But in a welcome departure from the impersonal world of the supermarket , with its individually cling-filmed organic vegetables , the farmer and shopper will soon come face to face .
5	The market makers who replaced the jobbers rarely meet face to face , so one rumour is as good as another .
6	The British Library is now gradually coming face to face also with another side of the electronic revolution : the question of how to acquire , preserve and make available unpublished research materials which happen to have been produced in electronic form .
7	Many people had worked on the paper for twenty years , and never once come face to face with the Editor .
8	But that is explained , partly , by the fact that Mike did the negotiations himself and they were often done face to face with Jefferson .
9	Charlie found he was continually spitting out mud and once even came face to face with a German who could n't blink .
10	CHILDREN of today come face to face with images of the past at an exhibition in a Middlesbrough museum .
11	He let the veteran British know exactly how he felt when they recently came face to face at a film festival .
12	He had a clean , bare style ; when writing he seemed to be able to slip the burden of his personality as he could never do face to face .
13	If they had done this to her possessions , what would they do if they actually came face to face with her ?
14	I spent most of the day mooching around Winnipeg , seeing a couple of owners once in a shop selling Eskimo sculptures , but never coming face to face with anyone who might know me .