Example sentences of "[v-ing] face to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | top management need to devote a minimum of four full days a year to preparing data personally and having face to face meetings with one or more levels of employees to communicate crucial messages . |
| 2 | YOU can not look at anything these days without coming face to face with a picture of a blissful couple holding a baby . |
| 3 | You can not go to a Franciscan centre without coming face to face with Francis ' emphasis on the cross . |
| 4 | Zambia padded to the door , coming face to face with a wriggling Ari , still firmly in the grip of Reynard Lennon . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Until coming face to face with Midnight , Jess had never given much thought to slaves , and certainly had never considered them as being stolen . |
| 8 | Misreading the crumpled instructions I took the steps to the first floor , realised I should be on the fourth , so ran and eased myself through the closing lift doors , coming face to face with Malc . |
| 9 | PEOPLE from a housing estate have been putting themselves on the map — and others have the unnerving prospect of coming face to face with themselves . |
| 10 | FLASHPOINT THE famous day Spurs hard man Dave Mackay got to grips with Leeds legend Billy Bremner at White Hart Lane — two Scottish firebrands coming face to face in the heat of battle |
| 11 | It was an odd sensation , coming face to face with the bogeyman of her childhood . |
| 12 | Every time she imagined coming face to face with him her stomach knotted . |
| 13 | ‘ No one likes coming face to face with their mistakes , ’ he growled . |
| 14 | Coming face to face with him after all this time had been a shock ; she had not known quite how she would react . |
| 15 | The prospect of coming face to face with the man who had figured so prominently in Elise 's diary before her accidental death was just too intriguing to pass up . |
| 16 | While the men are invigorated by the fight in the world outside , strengthened by coming face to face with the enemy , we women sit at home and darn . ’ |
| 17 | It struck her as comical , so soon after the expressions of revulsion and outrage on coming face to face for the first time with sexual deviance . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | SUMMERCHILD : Actually , I do feel a little as if I were coming face to face with my past in some kind of way . |
| 20 | ‘ But I doubt I 'll ever know for sure because I 'll never see her again and only by coming face to face with her will I know the truth . ’ |
| 21 | She could only make a calculated guess ; sheer horror at coming face to face with a former lover when the present one stood stiffly beside him . |
| 22 | Was it because she knew we 'd had an affair and was jealous or was it the heartbreak of coming face to face with Steve ? ’ |
| 23 | She was n't going to run much risk of rounding a corner and coming face to face with him — and , even if she did , so what ? |
| 24 | She tried not to worry , but the thought of coming face to face with the handsome , the dashing Miguelito made her heart thump in her chest . |
| 25 | Politics and showbusiness have collided head on during the election campaign with one of the country 's leading Conservatives coming face to face with himself … or at least his Spitting Image . |
| 26 | coming face to face with the technicolour dream car . |
| 27 | Shock attack : An 80year-old woman is recovering from shock after coming face to face with a burglar who stole jewellery from her Wirral home in Spencer Avenue , Rock Ferry . |
| 28 | Charlie found himself waiting in another queue before coming face to face with the sergeant again . |
| 29 | Before I could deliver another , he had grasped my wrist and we were fighting face to face , nearly falling into the fire as we did so . |
| 30 | I met her on a colectivo here in the capital , standing face to face in the rush-hour crowds . |