Example sentences of "face as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grim look on his young face as she washed off the dried blood frightened her . |
| 2 | She tried joining her mind to the millions of people everywhere glued to screens for this all important match but all she could see was Colm 's pudgy little legs swinging backwards and forwards and the grim look on his face as she washed away the crusted blood . |
| 3 | Nevertheless he does possess a yellow face as opposed to lodging in a yellow room , or handling yellow money , or being issued ( the bureaucracy ! ) with a yellow ticket . |
| 4 | He had a Jerry can in front of him , and a large grin on his face as he remarked , ‘ Piper , I have the answer to those bloody mosquitoes ! ’ |
| 5 | The grin left his face as he mentioned that he had been informed about an hour ago that his brother-in-law , who was a member of No. 4 Commando , had been killed during a German counter attack on the Commando positions . |
| 6 | He had a smile on his face as we shook hands . |
| 7 | I gazed at the devastation from behind a stone horsetrough , lying flat on my face as another explosion sent lumps of metal and cobblestones clattering on to the roofs of the farm buildings . |
| 8 | She had no clarity to toss in his face as he tossed ‘ bourgeois deviation ’ and Engels in hers . |
| 9 | It tasted far worse than I imagine my four-day-old socks would — a memorable moment remembered for the wrong reason , not least for the expression of anguish on Pete 's face as the brew hit his tonsils . |
| 10 | The Defence Minister barely flinched as the camera zoomed in for a close-up of his face as they ran the famous film clip from mid-December , 1987 , in which he promised that it would all be over by Christmas . |
| 11 | The Defence Minister barely flinched as the camera zoomed in for a close-up of his face as they ran the famous film clip from mid-December , 1987 , in which he promised that it would all be over by Christmas . |
| 12 | China has been cheered up by the difficulties the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe face as they try to change their old communist ways . |
| 13 | The great features of that map , which make it something more than a picture to be imperfectly copied by laborious childish pens , are the great promontories of Caernarvon , of Pembroke , of Gower and of Cornwall , jutting out into the western sea , like the features of a grim large face , such a face as is carved on a ship 's prow … . |
| 14 | He was so ample that he completely filled one side of the table , and a heavenly smile suffused his round pink face as he said : ‘ My favourite of all the wines is — rose petal . ’ |
| 15 | A bitter smile crossed his face as his eyes ranged over the top men in the giant corporation . |
| 16 | He stared hard at her face as , at last , her lips began to move . |
| 17 | She would not realize how spectacular her deception had been until she had seen , as he had , the frenzied rage on Simon 's face , or heard , as he had , the pleasure and excitement in Simon 's face as he threatened violence . |
| 18 | She could see the look of astonishment on Simon 's face as he made the connections she wanted him to make . |
| 19 | Beyond the window , sunshine slanted through the trees to fall across Frankie 's face as he enjoyed his morning feast . |
| 20 | She seemed to stare directly into his face as he crouched in the shadows on the half-landing . |
| 21 | You go into a café where the sight and smell of freshly baked Danish pastries hits you squarely in the face as you walk through the door . |
| 22 | Thinking of the provocatively slow way she might later take off her shiny red boots , dark hair falling down over her placidly unconcerned face as she bent to remove them , thinking of the longer , slower flow of her otherwise quick young body as she discarded her clothing bit by bit and turned with a sudden smile of submission towards his already rumpled bed , he was also holding in to himself and caressing within himself the glass-cased ideal of a woman — a Princess — who could be worshipped without being touched by bonily clutching fingers , who could transform him without being stickied by any of his bodily fluids . |
| 23 | He said ‘ I think I 'm fairly lovable ’ — with a face as cold and unlovable as if he were dissecting a fish rather than trying to reach his fellow human beings . |
| 24 | It must have been a strange sight in a land of Celtic war chiefs , dressed in Highland-type garb , to see the proud , aristocratic De Cuellar in fine Spanish attire , pulling a face as he sipped the O'Rourke potheen and thought of his native wine . |
| 25 | The rain fell against his face as he watched her march out into the dusk , narrow shoulders pulled resolutely back as if she were someone who knew exactly where she was going and what she thought about things . |
| 26 | Other incidents of violence during the campaign include an attack on Mr Christopher Chope , the roads minister , who was punched in the face as he canvassed in his Southampton Itchen , and the punching of Mr Owen Paterson , the Conservative candidate in Wrexham . |
| 27 | A POLICEMAN was kneed in the groin and another punched in the face as they tried to break up brawling schoolgirls at a railway station . |
| 28 | I got hold of him and got a punch in the face as well . |
| 29 | I got hold of him and got a punch in the face as well … ’ |
| 30 | Until that moment arrives , we must go on running over these creatures with as brave a face as we can muster . |