Example sentences of "[verb] she in the face " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She never mentioned my having got stuck here as well , but I could hardly look her in the face . |
| 2 | He could not continue to look her in the face . |
| 3 | They bundled her into the living room punched and threatened her with a knife , before spraying her in the face with Ammonia . |
| 4 | He had n't really kicked her in the face ; you 've got to draw the line somewhere , although I 've never been exactly sure where . |
| 5 | She remembered screaming , remembered one of the storm-troopers punching her in the face to stop her . |
| 6 | He raped the pregnant woman , whom he knew , at her Wigan home last autumn , after suddenly losing his temper and punching her in the face . |
| 7 | ‘ Are you … ? ’ she began , but she did n't want to believe what was staring her in the face . |
| 8 | Leith , with two very large problems staring her in the face — the mortgage and Naylor Massingham , despite his action yesterday still there metaphorically breathing down her neck — thought a denial preferable to dampening her mother 's present happy frame of mind . |
| 9 | To get out of the car to peer beneath its bonnet was not going to get her anywhere either , she knew in advance , because with her lack of mechanical knowledge the fault could be staring her in the face and she would never recognise it . |
| 10 | When they stepped into the street the damp warmth hit her in the face and the heat of the pavements struck through the thin soles of her shoes so that every step of the way was like treading on hot cinders . |
| 11 | Yet she refused absolutely to recognise it , even when it jumped up and hit her in the face . |
| 12 | Some rattled on the glass , some got her in the face , some spurted into the room . |
| 13 | Such a summer now stared her in the face , for she had , through indecision , failed to fix herself up any foreign excursions ; she looked towards it and towards her approaching examinations , and felt sadly weak . |
| 14 | Her obligations stared her in the face , but she did not flinch ! |
| 15 | As she passed , she said , a policeman had struck her in the face with a baton , ‘ and I had n't opened my mouth to him ’ . |
| 16 | It was as if he had slapped her in the face . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh no , ’ she said , ‘ oh no , ’ in a shocked , incredulous way as if someone had just slapped her in the face . |
| 18 | ‘ He struck her in the face and told her to move over . |
| 19 | The 20-year-old threw his first victim to the ground and kicked her in the face . |
| 20 | He then knocked a 21-year-old girl over and kicked her in the face , before half choking and battering a 23-year-old . |
| 21 | Therry Buleita spent a whole night in this position ; each time her head dropped , a policeman kicked her in the face . |
| 22 | She began screaming and he punched her in the face and ran off . |
| 23 | When she tried to hang on to the cash one man punched her in the face and they both escaped . |
| 24 | A TEENAGE boy demanded cash from a schoolgirl and punched her in the face , a court heard . |
| 25 | Her reaction was as though he 'd hit her in the face , then she recovered , left the room and walked into the kitchen at the end of the hall . |