Example sentences of "[unc] face at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reluctantly , Dot slid down from the bed while Loopy Lil beamed kindly , eyes swivelling in all directions and tried to help wash Dot 's face at the wash-stand and brush her hair . |
| 2 | 11.20 pm , Basildon : The Labour loser 's face at the count last time said it all . |
| 3 | Only much later , in court , did it transpire that the witness could not possibly have seen the suspect 's face at the distance 75 metres in conditions of semi-darkness . |
| 4 | TAXPAYERS will have to fork out an extra £300 million to save Prime Minister John Major 's face at the EC Edinburgh Summit today . |
| 5 | A slight smile of pride crossed Tzann 's face at the discreet flattery . |
| 6 | No , of course he had not seen James Vane 's face at the window . |
| 7 | A smile was almost brought to Auguste 's face at the thought of Multhrop 's reaction as half the Imperial 's china vanished into medical detectives ' laboratories . |
| 8 | I was drawn , by the figure of a woman looking at it , to a child 's face at the window of a train that was beginning to move . |
| 9 | I noticed a flicker of a smile cross the French king 's face at the usual flowery hypocrisies ; Francis hated Henry and the English king responded in kind . |
| 10 | The victim had been in a ground floor classroom when she saw a man 's face at the window . |
| 11 | The couple of niggles were a flat , painted giant 's face at the window of Buckingham Palace , and a slipped accent by the Queen of Sweden . |
| 12 | ‘ And if you can put a smile on someone 's face at the same time , that 's great . ’ |
| 13 | My most abiding memory will not be of the joy of the French , but the terrible sight of Pete Sampras ' face at the prize giving ceremony which looked as if he had come into intimate contact with an atom bomb . |