Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] face to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is reported that , while out riding in Wychwood Forest , he suddenly came face to face with the shade of Amy Robsart . |
| 2 | I wanted to meet Marius Durance — I 've always especially admired his work and it seemed crazy to be so close and not come face to face with him . |
| 3 | It is at the handing over of the engagement dower that the mothers finally meet face to face — or burgah to burgah . |
| 4 | If he does , he may just come face to face with himself . |
| 5 | But in a welcome departure from the impersonal world of the supermarket , with its individually cling-filmed organic vegetables , the farmer and shopper will soon come face to face . |
| 6 | The market makers who replaced the jobbers rarely meet face to face , so one rumour is as good as another . |
| 7 | The British Library is now gradually coming face to face also with another side of the electronic revolution : the question of how to acquire , preserve and make available unpublished research materials which happen to have been produced in electronic form . |
| 8 | Many people had worked on the paper for twenty years , and never once come face to face with the Editor . |
| 9 | But that is explained , partly , by the fact that Mike did the negotiations himself and they were often done face to face with Jefferson . |
| 10 | Charlie found he was continually spitting out mud and once even came face to face with a German who could n't blink . |
| 11 | A lot of people do n't come face to face with me here |
| 12 | CHILDREN of today come face to face with images of the past at an exhibition in a Middlesbrough museum . |
| 13 | He let the veteran British know exactly how he felt when they recently came face to face at a film festival . |
| 14 | He had a clean , bare style ; when writing he seemed to be able to slip the burden of his personality as he could never do face to face . |
| 15 | If they had done this to her possessions , what would they do if they actually came face to face with her ? |
| 16 | I spent most of the day mooching around Winnipeg , seeing a couple of owners once in a shop selling Eskimo sculptures , but never coming face to face with anyone who might know me . |