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

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1 It is imperative to meet face to face with the client and to visit the company to be valued to get a ‘ feel ’ for the business .
2 Now that traders no longer have to meet face to face , and can communicate by telephone or computer , the exchange is not so easy to identify .
3 Which is why we prefer to work face to face .
4 The Zoo 's own photographer managed to come face to face with this somewhat disrespectful giraffe , and yes , he was in an area available to the general public — albeit in a slightly acrobatic pose !
5 Both sides were now eager to come face to face , and as General Cope moved forward from Dunbar towards Edinburgh the Jacobite army moved out to meet him .
6 Nell half expected to come face to face with Mahon inside .
7 ‘ Do those people at unemployment offices know what it 's like to come face to face with them ? ’ said Sharon .
8 Although Howard did n't actually have to come face to face with Brando , they had to share the same set .
9 It 's one thing to sit in a classroom writing down notes but it 's quite another to come face to face with an armed murderer or a cornered rapist , you mark my words . ’
10 But one day , in the late seventies , he and Fleury happened to come face to face in Pall Mall and , after a moment , succeeded in recognizing each other .
11 Jenny was curiously reluctant to come face to face with this intruder whoever it was .
12 In fact , this was a totally disastrous time for her to come face to face with him .
13 ‘ I understand how you feel , but I think it would do your sister the world of good to come face to face with reality for once . ’
14 He swung himself nimbly over the fence and was disconcerted to come face to face with Henry Yaxlee , walking purposefully from the direction of the school .
15 Besides , the last thing she wanted was to come face to face with Rune again , especially if he was in the arms of a reconciled Lotta !
16 He has a right to come face to face with me , and judge for himself whether he can honourably deliver them , and never fear that he is helping to lure a brave man to his death . ’
17 ( ‘ If forced to come face to face with the Subject avoid catching the Subject 's eye . ’ )
18 Miguel Rafaelo said quietly , ‘ You do n't want to come face to face with yourself , then , Shelley .
19 And they 're made to come face to face with people who 've lost friends or relatives in drink driving accidents .
20 If they get the money , it 'll give the people of Gloucestershire the chance to come face to face with thir ancestors .
21 The memory of the terrible moment she had come face to face with Salt rolled over her .
22 But now I had come face to face with her four days after she stood before the House of Commons and declared that there were too many hospital beds in London , and that as a result , St Bartholomew 's Hospital , along with numerous others great and small , would have to close , merge or become emasculated .
23 It is the first time all 22 Premier League chairmen have come face to face since the Noades-inspired walk-out last September when the so-called ‘ Platinum Eight ’ clubs blocked a £10million Bass sponsorship deal .
24 The poor fellow thought he had come face to face with an alien .
25 I wanted to meet Marius Durance — I 've always especially admired his work and it seemed crazy to be so close and not come face to face with him .
26 Like Hamlet , they had come face to face with its essential horror and absurdity .
27 At least once in their lives , most of these men would have met Thorfinn : more perhaps than had come face to face with King Duncan in the six years of his reign and before , when he had been prince of Cumbria in the shadow of Malcolm his grandfather .
28 A farmer who 's threatened to shoot her cattle rather than allow a bypass through her land , has come face to face with officials who want to build the road .
29 On his way home , he had come face to face with the two youths with whom he had argued earlier .
30 Since last May many of these same passers-by have come face to face on their TV screens with the agony , desolation and despair of the people of Ethiopia and the Sudan .
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