Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] face with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Empty house , chagrin perhaps that he had n't heeded her theme , loss of face with the TV company , negligent children ? |
| 2 | One result of this moral panic was that , even as the anxiety mentioned by Furlong ( ibid. ) forced us to react to these public demands with some arrests , we insiders with ‘ special knowledge ’ , who were working face to face with the counter-culture , knew there was a different social reality abroad which we could never adequately explain to the entrepreneur or encapsulate for the media headline . |
| 3 | We were now face to face with this man of diverse talent — poet , novelist , song-writer , performer — after following his career for nearly two decades , reading his books , playing his records , watching him sing , reading of him through the eyes of his critics — no easy feat when one is not inhibited by astigmatism ! |
| 4 | This predicament arises out of the demise of consciousness , when only consciousness , understood in a traditional way , can bring us face to face with , and hence give us any grasp on , the qualitative , as opposed to relational , properties . |
| 5 | Jess was a mellow sort of chap until he came face to face with a light bulb |
| 6 | We are brought face to face with the question , ‘ What is the purpose of human life itself ? ’ |
| 7 | Well , for once a 25-year-old test with the fastest figures this magazine had ever produced at the time seems positively understated when you come face to face with the reality . |
| 8 | Joey 's used to dealing with difficult customers , but when he comes face to face with a gun-toting angry young man , it takes all his soothing charm to save the day . |
| 9 | TIM AND PATSY STOTHERT 'S QUAKER MEETING HOUSE IS APTLY NAMED , FOR IN IT DIVERSE STYLES CONVERGE AND VICTORIANA COMES FACE TO FACE WITH ART DECO . |
| 10 | He had known very little about himself until he was face to face with death . |
| 11 | YOU can not look at anything these days without coming face to face with a picture of a blissful couple holding a baby . |
| 12 | ‘ Sometimes one is brought face to face with facts which can not be buried . |
| 13 | A ‘ radical ’ new procedure , under which complaints staff make inquiries by telephone or face to face with the parties to produce a summary for the complaints committee , is proposed . |
| 14 | You can not go to a Franciscan centre without coming face to face with Francis ' emphasis on the cross . |
| 15 | And we gazed into the little flickering fire , grieving once more for the parents brought face to face with reality . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Zambia padded to the door , coming face to face with a wriggling Ari , still firmly in the grip of Reynard Lennon . |
| 18 | When we come face to face with a horse we often feel a need or pressure to do something . |
| 19 | Against that , Labour in the person of Harold Wilson had a more widely respected leader then it has now , and many experienced Tory canvassers are convinced that thousands of former Tory voters who are now thinking of defecting will gloomily return to the Tory fold within the next few days as they come face to face with the possible reality of a Kinnock government . |
| 20 | On the day Wright , awash with goals since his £2.5 million move across London , came face to face with his former Crystal Palace colleagues it was left to Merson to emphasise that Arsenal are playing like champions a little too late to worry Manchester United and Leeds . |
| 21 | Richard Baxter movingly brought his people face to face with the great realities of heaven and of hell , with God and with eternity . |
| 22 | It is reported that , while out riding in Wychwood Forest , he suddenly came face to face with the shade of Amy Robsart . |
| 23 | Dennis Hopper went to the meeting with Manson and sat face to face with him for two hours in a room on the eighth floor of the Hall of Justice . |
| 24 | These are reluctant hunters , ill at ease and inexperienced , wary lest a nervous glance could give flesh to fear — the fear of coming face to face with a cowering countryman , the fear of finding the loaded chamber in a game of Russian roulette . |
| 25 | Top-line caddying was at first only part-time for Dave , although even a part-time career brought him face to face with the second of the twin imposters , disaster , in 1971 at the Open championship at Royal Birkdale . |
| 26 | So for once the sort of comment John would make face to face with other collaborators is actually recorded . |
| 27 | A Polynesian folktale tells of Rata , who travelled across the ocean and ingeniously outwitted a hungry whale by jamming open its jaws with a broken oar ; venturing in through the mouth he came face to face with his parents who had been gulped down before him . |
| 28 | I found myself face to face with Jack Nopps . |
| 29 | In a few seconds time he might be face to face with the man who had killed Daniel . |
| 30 | 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 ! |