Example sentences of "[pos pn] face " in BNC.
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| 1 | I landed 'im one for that and bowled him clean over — now he 's grinning on t' other side of 'is face ! |
| 2 | That 's 'ow I can be so certain about the expression on 'is face . |
| 3 | He falls to such perusal of my face |
| 4 | I took off my tin hat to feel the sun on my face . |
| 5 | One moment I was revelling in the astonishment of being alive , and the next — I was lying flat on my face , with what felt like a very large hole in the right side of my skull … |
| 6 | If I never did anything but sit in this room and powder my face and tell you what a clever fool you are , i should still be heavens high above the millions of common women who do their domestic duty , and sacrifice themselves , and run Trade departments and all the rest of the vulgarities . |
| 7 | For Juliet I did ‘ Thou knowest the mask of night is on my face ’ and for Hermia I did the ‘ puppet ’ speech . |
| 8 | Happier ? he said , his blue eyes fixed on my face in that mad way he sometimes has . |
| 9 | Hitting me with her little fists , but I could n't get the smile off my face . |
| 10 | Then , as now while I write this , tears were running down my face . |
| 11 | Tears were streaming down my face — everywhere . |
| 12 | My plan for how I was going to live out the rest of my days had just been torn up in front of my face and I needed time to adjust . |
| 13 | Tears were flowing down my face . |
| 14 | Everything in me shoots high like a hot spring , like the fourth of July when my fingers meet your flowing cunt , my face twisted in an agony of pleasure . |
| 15 | He became vast and covered me , covered my face , his hideous throat working . |
| 16 | Of spiders which squatted on the floor , then criss-crossed my face , hairily , of mice which scampered in the wardrobe and of lizards , steely blue and green . |
| 17 | Instead of striking my face and grieving aloud because my hymen was no longer intact , I wondered , ‘ Is it because he 's an Englishman that he does n't feel proud he 's taken my virginity , or is he frightened that now I 'll try to force him to marry me ? ’ |
| 18 | The English boy pointed to my face , unable to control his mirth . |
| 19 | I felt my face go red , as red as it was physically possible for it to go red , and a surge of hate and rage and fear swept through me from nerve ending to brain cell to nerve ending . |
| 20 | The redness in my face was no longer of anger , but embarrassment , and even warmth . |
| 21 | A fly was buzzing over my head ad kept settling on my face . |
| 22 | 10 October , 1903 RAYMOND ASQUITH writes to Lady Manners from Aberdeenshire : ‘ We had a storm yesterday and went out to watch the waves : I ventured too far out onto a rock and was knocked flat on my face against a granite floor by one of the biggest rollers ever seen on this coast : I never felt such a blow ; luckily I fell in a crevice and was n't washed away ; but I was stunned for a few seconds , and when I got up my face and knee were streaming with blood . |
| 23 | 10 October , 1903 RAYMOND ASQUITH writes to Lady Manners from Aberdeenshire : ‘ We had a storm yesterday and went out to watch the waves : I ventured too far out onto a rock and was knocked flat on my face against a granite floor by one of the biggest rollers ever seen on this coast : I never felt such a blow ; luckily I fell in a crevice and was n't washed away ; but I was stunned for a few seconds , and when I got up my face and knee were streaming with blood . |
| 24 | I crawled into my trench , adjusted the camouflage square over my face and head , curled myself into a ball and tried to get some sleep . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's rather difficult for me to show my face at Brigade H.Q at the moment , ’ I replied . |
| 26 | Between the noise of the bloody guns and clouds of bloody mosquitoes buzzing around my head , all I 've had for my two hours is more mosquito lumps on my face , and I 'm more tired than ever. , Taff and I chatted while he sat on the floor of the trench smoking his cigarette . |
| 27 | The only injury was a bleeding nose sustained when I crashed down onto my face , following the blast . |
| 28 | I drew my fingers over my face , tenderly rubbing at the swellings and could well imagine what the scene looked like . |
| 29 | Their plight made me feel rather guilty about my concern over the mosquito bites on my face . |
| 30 | No doubt there are those who have seen fear on my face in certain circumstances in this campaign , just as I have seen the same fear on their faces in the same circumstances . |