Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun] [prep] face " 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 | Entrenched positions may be established easily between the two with the result that claims are prepared and argued merely to prevent loss of face when in reality the matter could and should have been settled by discussion on site when the problems arose . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is at the handing over of the engagement dower that the mothers finally meet face to face — or burgah to burgah . |
| 5 | And he no longer took things at face value . |
| 6 | So that although the theoretical presuppositions of traditional literary criticism are very different from Derrida 's , the student of literature is likely to recognize his strategy of not taking texts at face value . |
| 7 | If he does , he may just come face to face with himself . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | What what we must n't do with Honey and Munnford is just take things at face value because what Honey and Munnford did is they actually carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they decided that I mean they carried out interviews with er lots of people thousand and they had a general study where they carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they said was that in particular with the reflector a l some , some scores are naturally higher than others and that what we ca n't do is just sort of look at these and say well this is the highest score , therefore I 'm much more of a , of a reflector than I have of , I am of the other three , all we actually need to do is compare our scores against the general norms . |
| 10 | The market makers who replaced the jobbers rarely meet face to face , so one rumour is as good as another . |
| 11 | 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face also with another side of the electronic revolution : the question of how to acquire , preserve and make available unpublished research materials which happen to have been produced in electronic form . |
| 12 | I always take people at face value and talk to people . |
| 13 | Many people had worked on the paper for twenty years , and never once come face to face with the Editor . |
| 14 | But that is explained , partly , by the fact that Mike did the negotiations himself and they were often done face to face with Jefferson . |
| 15 | When I say I ca n't see people I think it 's the lighting but there is a sort of a I ca n't recognise people by face . |
| 16 | Charlie found he was continually spitting out mud and once even came face to face with a German who could n't blink . |
| 17 | A lot of people do n't come face to face with me here |
| 18 | CHILDREN of today come face to face with images of the past at an exhibition in a Middlesbrough museum . |
| 19 | He let the veteran British know exactly how he felt when they recently came face to face at a film festival . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | If they had done this to her possessions , what would they do if they actually came face to face with her ? |
| 22 | 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 . |