Example sentences of "at the [adj] face " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stand up there in the pulpit every Sunday mornin' looking down at the upturned faces searchin' for yours , but in vain . |
| 2 | Jess shivered , looking down at the upturned faces that stared at her with idle curiosity . |
| 3 | Staring at him , at the strong face , her eyes drifted to his mouth , the strong column of his throat and back to his eyes . |
| 4 | In the villages of Grindelwald and Kleine Scheidegg , tourists were breakfasting and getting ready to rush out and stare through telescope or binoculars at the sinister face . |
| 5 | Sister Rosario looked at the pinched face of Maura Ryan and her heart went out to the child . |
| 6 | Thus the axial stress decreases linearly from its peak value p s at the front face to some low value p s at the rear face . |
| 7 | Thus the axial stress decreases linearly from its peak value p s at the front face to some low value p s at the rear face . |
| 8 | In all the sign languages except Chinese Sign Language , ( tell a ) LIE was located at the lower face , with the hand moving sideways . |
| 9 | To look at the six faces opposite was difficult . |
| 10 | Never let me have this humiliation , she thought , looking at the drowsing face . |
| 11 | Sipping lager , we gazed at the front-page face of a dour middle-aged nurse who had been sacked for making porno movies on hospital premises . |
| 12 | ‘ This then , ’ he said , staring with mild reproof at the impassive faces of Regan and Harrison , ‘ is all the information we have on the Irish Republican Brotherhood ? ’ |
| 13 | Jack looked doubtfully at the waxen face of his stepfather . |
| 14 | Delaney shook Lawton by the hand , and nodded at the other faces , regarding them levelly . |
| 15 | But before the great affair struck up , one looked around at the new faces : Steve Milligan , who used to be our foreign editor at the Sunday Times , Lady Olga Maitland , nicer than her impossible opinions , whom I chiefly remember for being very good about expenses at the Sunday Express ( one wonders if Kelvin Mackenzie might have slipped in late for Chislehurst ) , Nigel Jones , the Lib Dem from Cheltenham with the Lenin beard , and a man and woman sitting together , pointed out as Gordon and Brigid Prentice who , if they flourish in Labour politics , will be compared in the Sun two elections from now with the Ceausescus . |
| 16 | She stared very hard at the dark face above her , her hands pushed into her pockets to hide their idiotic trembling . |
| 17 | Maxim stopped trying to peer at the shadowed faces in front of him and put on a pair of sunglasses . |
| 18 | It would be surprising if Tolkien had not looked at the calm face of Tollund Man , or the hideously frightened one of ‘ Queen Gunhild ’ ( all too obviously still struggling as she was pinned down alive ) , and reflected that these were the true lineaments of his pagan ancestors . |
| 19 | Her Mum smiled at the woebegone face . |
| 20 | Merrill smiled at the glowing face and said , ‘ Yes , I 'd love to see it … ’ |
| 21 | Evelyn was gazing at it and at the eager face above the frilly collar , but whether in rapture or disbelief Sam could not tell . |
| 22 | He looked covertly across the table at her , at the vital face , the dark eyes , the generous , amused mouth , the blue-black hair loosely knotted on to the crown of her head , so that curls and tendrils clung around the perfect oval of her face . |
| 23 | Elliott looked at the three faces watching him . |
| 24 | O K , let's look at the three faces of stress . |
| 25 | He stared moodily at the photograph at the thin face with its moustache and big ears smiling out at an unimaginable future . |
| 26 | Trying not to scream , she sat up and , without putting on the light , looked at the illuminated face of the alarm clock . |
| 27 | He looked over the estate agent 's shoulder at the surprised face of the Englishman . |
| 28 | Blake looked at the exasperated face of the Doctor , ' … but this computer can predict what I 'm going to do . |
| 29 | Taking a deep breath , she managed a cool smile up at the enigmatic face above her , and took brutal control of her wayward emotions . |
| 30 | All I remember thinking of as I pushed the trolley and looked at the red face and eyebrows was , My friend , you are about to take the longest journey a man ever takes in this life . |