Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] face to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill had the opportunity to sit face to face with them and you catch his eye , you you used to er time to er use , use hand gestures and show things to them on , on presenters . |
| 2 | By some terrific fluke Richard came face to face with his future at the precise time he most needed to see it . |
| 3 | The world-famous pecussionist Evelyn Glennie came face to face with the musicians of the future today . |
| 4 | Where the parties deal face to face , it may be relatively easy to ensure that the business 's terms are incorporated into the contract , by obtaining the other party 's signature to a form referring to the terms . |
| 5 | Staggering , he put his weight against the door to close it , and for the first time he and the driver came face to face . |
| 6 | In principle , therefore , there was now a global US policy even if , in Vietnam , it depended upon a French surrogate , and when Acheson and Schuman met face to face , after apparently unrecorded or at least so far undisclosed conversation , Acheson wanted to establish a close and immediate connection between the problem of Southeast Asia and the defence of the West . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And we gazed into the little flickering fire , grieving once more for the parents brought face to face with reality . |
| 9 | He has a right to come face to face with me , and judge for himself whether he can honourably deliver them , and never fear that he is helping to lure a brave man to his death . ’ |
| 10 | As Big Ben ticked … the cameras clicked as the oarsman of Oxford and Cambridge came face to face for the official challenge |
| 11 | Oxford and Cambridge came face to face for the first time today when the scales were set for the official weigh-in . |
| 12 | If they get the money , it 'll give the people of Gloucestershire the chance to come face to face with thir ancestors . |
| 13 | The authority or aristocracy and armed excise officers came face to face with the fact that a substantial part of the rural and urban population alike either connived at , or were intimidated by , the activities of well-organised armed gangs . |
| 14 | On the afternoon of Saturday 27 July 1689 the two armies came face to face at the pass of Killiecrankie , about midway between Pitlochry and Blair Castle , where the road ran through a narrow valley beside a deep gorge . |
| 15 | The Twickenham crowd will certainly hold their breath when he and Mick Skinner meet face to face in action . |
| 16 | Hilda Bernstein , the wife of one of those on trial , wrote : ‘ The Rivonia trial was a confrontation in which the opposing forces in South Africa appeared face to face ; those who stood for apartheid … and those who opposed it . |
| 17 | With that decision people came face to face with the expectation known to the early Christians soon after the Crucifixion and to the deeply religious who shivered at the approach of the year A.D. 1000 — the expectation that they might indeed see the end of the world in their lifetime . |
| 18 | As Spaniards came face to face with their country 's impotence , backwardness and inescapably second-class status , there arose a confused chorus of demands for the ‘ regeneration ’ of what was widely seen as a ‘ decadent ’ nation . |
| 19 | Moments earlier 18-year-old Fisher came face to face with victim Mary Jo Buttafuoco for the first time since the doorstep shooting . |
| 20 | To help mark the anniversary a facsimile of the mummy , produced by a new British technique , will be at an exhibition called Face to Face with Tutankhamun , in Dorchester , Dorset , tomorrow . |
| 21 | FLASHPOINT THE famous day Spurs hard man Dave Mackay got to grips with Leeds legend Billy Bremner at White Hart Lane — two Scottish firebrands coming face to face in the heat of battle |
| 22 | In the first Assignment ( BBC2 7.40pm ) of the new season , his predecessor , Bob Hawke , examines Keating 's vision for a new Australia and the two rivals come face to face . |
| 23 | A blockage can also occur when two rabbits come face to face in a hole of small diameter . |
| 24 | TWO North-East councillors came face to face in court for the first time yesterday over allegations that they assaulted each other . |
| 25 | You know , i i it is a very fine line between er how we talk to our customers , which is why I , I , I ca n't stress enough the need for the project coordinators to talk face to face with the customer first of all , and perhaps gently lead him down some of the items in this list that the project coordinator thinks the client might not have remembered . |
| 26 | When the French and the Vietminh came face to face in the south there was , apparently , no room for compromise and conflict was almost immediate . |
| 27 | For H. G. Wells , the change to Bonar Law marked a distasteful new attitude by the Unionists ; when Balfour 's " essential liberalism came face to face with this new baseness of commercialized imperialism , with all its push and energy , he made a very poor fight for it . |
| 28 | One Saturday morning Bob came face to face with him as he emerged from the communal bathroom on the first half-landing . |
| 29 | The Manchester Guardian observed on 22 March that the situation in Korea was dangerous since ‘ Korea is one of the two parts of the world ( Germany is the other ) where the United States and the Soviet Union meet face to face in physical contact ’ . |
| 30 | A person 's ability to relate to wider issues means mastering relationships in the immediate community — initially the home , because family life is where personal and public life meet face to face . |