Example sentences of "face to her [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 She gathered my face to her heart .
2 His hand slid from her face to her shoulder and he glanced towards the bar where the men had brought their drinks out to see the very last of this unusual event .
3 Turning a glowing face to her companion , Luce exclaimed , ‘ Are n't they wonderful ? ’
4 When the local doctor , confounded by the sparrow size of his patients , informed the couple that they were to become parents , llya Holovich had dropped her lined and weary face to her chest and wept , and Stepan Holovich had jumped up from his chair and then scratched between his thin grey hair and laughed .
5 Virginia switched her disconcertingly direct aquamarine gaze from her father 's haggard face to her brother Charles 's preoccupied gloom , finishing up on her sister-in-law Lucy 's flushed , anxious expression .
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