Example sentences of "coming [noun sg] [prep] face with " in BNC.
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1 | YOU can not look at anything these days without coming face to face with a picture of a blissful couple holding a baby . |
2 | You can not go to a Franciscan centre without coming face to face with Francis ' emphasis on the cross . |
3 | Zambia padded to the door , coming face to face with a wriggling Ari , still firmly in the grip of Reynard Lennon . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Until coming face to face with Midnight , Jess had never given much thought to slaves , and certainly had never considered them as being stolen . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | It was an odd sensation , coming face to face with the bogeyman of her childhood . |
10 | Every time she imagined coming face to face with him her stomach knotted . |
11 | ‘ No one likes coming face to face with their mistakes , ’ he growled . |
12 | Coming face to face with him after all this time had been a shock ; she had not known quite how she would react . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . ’ |
15 | SUMMERCHILD : Actually , I do feel a little as if I were coming face to face with my past in some kind of way . |
16 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 ? ’ |
19 | 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 ? |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | coming face to face with the technicolour dream car . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | Charlie found himself waiting in another queue before coming face to face with the sergeant again . |