Example sentences of "his face " in BNC.
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| 1 | This last relationship is poignantly chronicled in his Faces in Shem ( 1961 ) . |
| 2 | I 'd seen the play — some touring company did it — they 'd made it into SF , all in space , and Oedipus was a two-headed Zaphod Beeblebrox character trying to kiss his mother with one of his faces and weep sorrowful tears with the other . |
| 3 | Asmodeus swung his faces back to Rex . |
| 4 | Ken was in one of his usual moods trying to get his mental computer working — does he ignore them brusquely or does he make one of his faces and willingly sign an autograph ? |
| 5 | I used to meet him most often in the museums and galleries fixed in rapt contemplation of pictures with that grave , searching look which was one of the beauties of his face . |
| 6 | He pushed the pad aside , took out his handkerchief and wiped his face , stuffed the handkerchief back in his pocket and began to type again . |
| 7 | And Goldberg , pushing the hair out of his eyes and wiping his face at the same time with his sleeve , pushed away the typewriter , pulled the pad towards him , seized the felt-tip pen , and wrote : He later admitted that he had merely said between seventeen and eighteen as a manner of speaking . |
| 8 | As I left I asked Marcus to remove his dark glasses so I could look at his face . |
| 9 | Memory of him standing there waving with two black holes in the middle of his face . |
| 10 | Hidden by her handmaids she is seen to blush , then turns to Actaeon and throws water in his face to blind him , to stop him seeing her naked , but that is not enough and she knows it is not enough , and soon he feels the horns growing on his forehead , dat sparso capiti vivacis cornus cervis , she caused to grow on his head the horns of the long-lived stag , as if the cost of seeing her naked had to be death , first metamorphosis then death . |
| 11 | Goldberg , pushing the typewriter away from him , wiped his face with his handkerchief and took a sip of orange juice . |
| 12 | I merely smiled and he got up , patting his face with his handkerchief , talking about the pollution of the water in London , about tests carried out and how soon everyone would have to boil drinking water first , it 's turning into a third-world city , he said , a third-world country , no one will admit it but England is turning into a third-world country . |
| 13 | As he hesitated the door opened and Gilbert Forbes came out in a rush , his make-up smudged on one side of his face , his toupee not quite straight . |
| 14 | The concrete was cold to his bottom , and he stared at the stairs down which Bunty had fallen , his throat and his face and his eyes seeming to swell up in a great hot surge of grief . |
| 15 | But then he turned towards the stairs and his face went grim and cold . |
| 16 | There was nothing in his face to show how much he enjoyed teasing his only sister . |
| 17 | Henry Tyler screwed up his face in an effort of recollection . |
| 18 | If Henry thought that there was a contradiction in terms about the words ‘ medical poison ’ he did not Let it show in his face . |
| 19 | Then his face fell . |
| 20 | I examined his face . |
| 21 | He looked up , his face awash with relief . |
| 22 | In the same way , if an adult slips and is going to fall , his hands go out to stop himself hitting his face . |
| 23 | You notice that the opponent is standing in a wide stance , so you throw a powerful reverse punch at his face . |
| 24 | If , however , the opponent does n't move back , snap punch to his face and follow with a reverse punch to his mid-section . |
| 25 | Two days ago when they had carted out Menzies the minister and Fleming the young teacher from along the road at Dull and danced round them like children at a Halloween fire and stuck them up on horses , facing backwards , and paraded them past the door and down the road to Aberfeldy , he had flung a soft carrot himself and caught the man on the side of his face . |
| 26 | Young Donald leaned his long-barrelled small-shot gun in the corner by the door and then his face darkened over . |
| 27 | As he made his way down the path from the manse between the round-shouldered granite gravestones , his face looked pink , as though he had recently shaved in scalding water . |
| 28 | A resigned silence congealed over the rows of people and the Reverend Archibald Menzies gripped the edges of the lectern , closed his eyes and raised his face to the ceiling , then looked down at the serried faces and spoke . |
| 29 | A thud of chopping — movement between the tree trunks — a labourer was coming towards him , one of the consignment of convicts he had ordered through a merchant in Bideford , he had his machete in his hand , he was not menacing , he held out his spare hand in a strange appeal , lifting his face , which was crossed by deep scars , wounds across his eyes had puckered them right in so that he moved like a blind sleeper , closer and closer — Sir John woke up sweating , surprised to find himself alone , and then remembered : he had been drinking with his cousin Alexander Menzies of Bolfracks , the last bottle must have sent him under . |
| 30 | At that he turned his face round and glared at her . |