Example sentences of "from face to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she stared entranced at her own image , Folly felt a warming in her cheeks , and watched as a flush spread down from face to neck to breasts , dying the tender peaks a deeper hue . |
| 2 | Round the semi-circle of chairs quick looks flicked from face to face . |
| 3 | Abruptly the laird smiled , looking from face to face along the front row , and said , ‘ Well , well — it is a fine morning for it . |
| 4 | Even Oz was quiet , his eyes flickering from face to face . |
| 5 | Joe tapped his fingertips together and looked from face to face . |
| 6 | Laughter jumped from face to face . |
| 7 | He sat there , looking from face to face expectantly . |
| 8 | The boy 's eyes went from face to face . |
| 9 | He looked from face to face , but no one said anything . |
| 10 | You know how I feel , he thought , looking from face to face . |
| 11 | He looked from face to face , aware that the past three years had brought great changes in his thinking . |
| 12 | DeVore looked from face to face , gauging their response , coming to Weis last of all . |
| 13 | She looked from face to face in the darkness , faces that seemed to belong to hideous inquisitors , with the torch beams casting harsh angular shadows from below into their upturned faces . |
| 14 | The questions of theory and of hypothesis seemed wrong now , and looking from face to face , he wondered how much good the answers would do him . |
| 15 | He looked from face to face , questioning and wondering . |
| 16 | Gabriel looked from face to face in search of some explanation . |
| 17 | In ‘ craft ’ retailing , the store manager and staff can consult central databases of information and back the ‘ hunches ’ which come from face to face contact with customers rather than from postcodes and product flow analysis . |
| 18 | Heads came bursting from every doorway to see them pass , and the warm hum of excitement and eagerness span after them in a golden thread , the voice of the brightness that flashed like sparks from face to face . |