Example sentences of "face in " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the books they write , music is heard in country places — trumpets , fiddles , the cimbalom — and love shows its face in country hotels , pleasant places , set down beside a stretch of water . |
| 2 | Happier ? he said , his blue eyes fixed on my face in that mad way he sometimes has . |
| 3 | Experiment of speaking name aloud into machine and then finding face in image made by sound-waves . |
| 4 | Henry Tyler screwed up his face in an effort of recollection . |
| 5 | Lucy buried her face in Jay 's neck , moaned into her mouth . |
| 6 | Lucy who possibly had n't given Jay a thought in four weeks ; she certainly had n't woken with Jay 's face in her mind , slept with a dream of Jay in her arms . |
| 7 | Her face in the mirror looked raddled , eyes wild and angry and pained , mouth set . |
| 8 | Our first encounter with ‘ The way through the Fish ’ , a modern classic of the Marmalada South Face in the Italian Dolomites had ended with us well beaten and rather incomprehendingly abseiling down during a perfect alpine evening . |
| 9 | I have certainly been party to one or two discussions amongst friends , and as part of my work I take groups of young people away on climbing trips , most to very white-dominated areas where the mere appearance of a black face in a pub or at a crag is enough to cause stares and whispers . |
| 10 | The novel 's atmosphere is thick — sticky ! — with news and rumours from abroad , and we learn that Shatov once spat in Verkhovensky 's face in Geneva . |
| 11 | Even now I see Khrushchev 's face in tears . |
| 12 | She was seen as a light relief from the boredom or demands of the shift , and , as a female , she was treated as a pretty face in a working environment which is heavily masculine . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The buzz , the uninhibited , excited talking , yes , uninhibited talking , in a district where you were made to feel peculiar if you allowed any expression to cross your face in the street , died as the lights slowly faded . |
| 15 | Then she struggled up , burying her face in his hand and her own . |
| 16 | He was a boy of about seven , big for his age , aggressive looking and with food adhering to his face in greasy red and brown streaks . |
| 17 | His eyes still seeing the charred appalling face , he turned to the young hard untouched face in front of him and said : |
| 18 | She 's lying on her mattress with her face in the pillow . |
| 19 | Until a few weeks ago she had been scarcely aware of him except as a friendly and familiar face in class ; but now , now she was very much aware of him — and he was very definitely aware of her ; much to Erika 's embarrassment sitting with her and Rosa at lunch , at the next desk in class , asking her out to the cinema and even , to Erika 's amazement and , she suspected , his own , offering to help Paul with his homework — in the Nordern home , that is — an offer declined both by Erika and Paul , although Paul did corner Fritz in school and suggest to him that if he actually did the homework then he , Paul , would further his , Fritz 's , courtship of Erika ; Paul being shrewd enough to guess the motive behind Fritz 's philanthropic gesture even though the square on the hypotenuse might remain a mystery to him . |
| 20 | ‘ Stupid , ’ he thought , looking at his flushed , dripping face in the mirror . |
| 21 | There was a sensuousness about it that filled him with a desire to run shouting across it , to roll in it , to bury his face in it and sniff life out of its roots , to draw up his childhood from the green stems , to lie supine and shade his eyes from the sun and dream himself back into nature . |
| 22 | I do n't deliberately put my face in the sun — but you ca n't help picking up a slight tan from reflected sunlight , particularly if , like me , you swim a lot . |
| 23 | They make up half your face in colours to suit you , advising you on technique , and you make up the other half of your face to match . |
| 24 | Dr Gysi had the advantage of being a completely new face in mainstream East German politics , after previously concentrating on defending dissidents and fighting for the recognition of opposition groups . |
| 25 | One country is full of people , people seen objectively and people seen subjectively , people in relation to myself , where the image is vivid , where the music is loud , sometimes overwhelmingly loud , and where the vision is nearly always distorted like a face in the back of a spoon … |
| 26 | Hence it is sometimes only the face in the photograph which represents the demonstrable and technical perfection , as at Netherhampton in Wiltshire , for instance . |
| 27 | The Ace Face in ‘ 66 |
| 28 | One beautiful face in a shop brought into my mind an undraped statue I had seen somewhere and we blushed together . |
| 29 | Putting the money in her bag she checked her face in the mirror and walked back to the bed . |
| 30 | There was no doubt that he was drawn to her ; he would greet her before anyone else in the room , and kiss her , sometimes once , sometimes twice , sometimes cupping her face in his hands . |