Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] to face in " in BNC.
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| 1 | But one day , in the late seventies , he and Fleury happened to come face to face in Pall Mall and , after a moment , succeeded in recognizing each other . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | More recently they shared the points when they came face to face in the league opener at Newry . |
| 4 | TWO North-East councillors came face to face in court for the first time yesterday over allegations that they assaulted each other . |
| 5 | The Twickenham crowd will certainly hold their breath when he and Mick Skinner meet face to face in action . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | Bishops , archdeacons , canons , civil servants , monks : these are the men whose lives we may study in the sources , whom we can meet face to face in their own writings , the educated , privileged clergy . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | I met her on a colectivo here in the capital , standing face to face in the rush-hour crowds . |
| 10 | A blockage can also occur when two rabbits come face to face in a hole of small diameter . |