Example sentences of "[be] face to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a few seconds time he might be face to face with the man who had killed Daniel . |
| 2 | Theodora knew of old the willingness of the clergy to be far ruder over the phone than they would venture to be face to face . |
| 3 | They were face to face now . |
| 4 | She crawled along to it , and a moment later they were face to face through a large chink , Tristram grinning , his teeth white and his face sun-darkened , and the sight of him made her feel safe and loved again , as if she had arrived home . |
| 5 | You are lucky enough to have Bella here to teach you , and your mother also , and as you know , I have undertaken to instruct you in history , since I am the one who has seen such a lot of it , as it were face to face . |
| 6 | The connection was especially good , almost as if they were face to face , and Zen found himself resentful that he should be deprived of the usual screen of interference on an occasion when he could find nothing to say . |
| 7 | They were face to face . |
| 8 | She felt as if they were face to face with an inquisitor . |
| 9 | If a killer thinks , even if only for a split second , that it is face to face with an owl or an eagle , it is very likely to back away and this may give the harmless bluffer enough time to escape . |
| 10 | Your heroine makes a pointed remark , the mysterious man she is face to face with comes back with something yet sharper , more menacing . |
| 11 | They 're the times when when actually look at which ones we 'd use remember the strengths in these some of the biggest yes you can go into greater detail you can see the reaction face to face you 'll get feedback straight away verbal as well as non-verbal er you know immediately what the answer is if there 's if you 're waiting for some sort of reply to it , you 'll have more effect because it 's face to face erm , cheap on material but it 's expensive on time you do n't have a formal written record and it can be very time consuming . |
| 12 | Doing things communicating with people verbally can mean a lot more now sometimes with a lot of bureaucracy you can get sucked in to putting everything down on paper but it does n't mean as much as it does when it 's face to face communication . |
| 13 | Well i in rugby when there 's trouble , it 's face to face say what you wan na say and smack them ! |
| 14 | There was so much to say , and if they 'd been face to face she would have poured it all out , but as it was … |
| 15 | Truth can not be confined to traditional religions , nor can any particular religion claim to have a monopoly of Truth , for where that kind of particularization of the Ultimate takes place , we are face to face with what Tillich calls demonization . |
| 16 | If we are face to face with the person sending the message , then we notice what they are doing with their face , eyes , and body while speaking : maybe they smiled , or shook their fist , or looked away . |
| 17 | ROS walks up to him till they are face to face . ) |
| 18 | The situation with which we are face to face represents indeed a sex war … |
| 19 | He had known very little about himself until he was face to face with death . |
| 20 | Now for the first time she was face to face with fragmented suggestions of reality , distorted perhaps , like the sun glancing on water , but hinting at something very different from the fairy tale princess the child Harriet had claimed as her own . |
| 21 | And then I was face to face with the biggest , and ugliest lad ever . |
| 22 | Thus he persuaded himself when writing to Theo , but not when he was face to face with a spitting hell-cat who abused him vilely , telling him to stop messing about with his stupid painting , scraping and altering it until her nerves were in shreds . |
| 23 | For the first time in her life , Louisa had come into one of the dwellings of the Coketown Hands ; for the first time in her life , she was face to face with anything like individuality in connection with them . |
| 24 | Softly , so as not to wake him , she turned her long slim form until she was face to face with his sleeping figure . |
| 25 | He reached her , he was face to face with her , the press girl Annabel was plucking at his clinging black roll-neck 's sleeve gingerly , with her fingertips . |
| 26 | She was face to face with Benedict and Merlyn Joseph . |
| 27 | It was the largest I had ever seen , split up into walled units , ten of them Ward had said , and when I reached the western limit of it I was face to face with the heaving bulk of the ocean . |
| 28 | And now she was face to face with a man who really believed her grandmother was guilty . |
| 29 | I was face to face with … |
| 30 | Their eyes met for the space of a long heartbeat , and despite the clean white bandage round the man 's forehead and the strip of plaster on one bruised cheek , Grant felt a surge of rage at the thought that he was face to face with the brutal oriental who had hurt Pam . |