Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun] 's face " in BNC.
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| 1 | Julia managed to raise her hand and weakly pat Anne 's face . |
| 2 | After twenty minutes he was quite awake , and he suddenly noticed Mary 's face . |
| 3 | He leaned down to kiss Ari 's face protectively . |
| 4 | Walking out of the Ladies , I suddenly saw Mum 's face in front of me like I saw it in the dream — sinking , drowning in bubbling mud — trying to spit the oozing slime out of her lipsticked mouth but the more she spat it out the more slithered in … |
| 5 | Strange , even when he looked at his eldest son , whom he knew to resemble her , he could not remember Mary 's face . |
| 6 | From my crevice between the two machines I can just see Pa 's face . |
| 7 | The reporter 's bloodshot eyes did not leave Blanche 's face . |
| 8 | Zurachina raised her cup between extended talons , but her eyes did not leave Alexei 's face . |
| 9 | Mm , I can still remember Ann 's face now , oh this bloody thing , got it and threw it , no , no |
| 10 | On coming to power in 997 , Stephen brought the nation fully into the Catholic Church , decisively turning Hungary 's face towards Rome rather than Byzantium . |
| 11 | Gaily watched Ma 's face . |
| 12 | He could n't see Ruane 's face because it was bent below the rim of the desk , as he put his shoes back on . |
| 13 | She could n't see William 's face but something in his voice discouraged further questions . |
| 14 | She could n't see Alice 's face , only the loose wispy bits of her hair , glinting in the light from the guttering candles behind her . |
| 15 | I could n't see Russell 's face or his reaction to all this . |
| 16 | She could n't find Nick 's face flannel by its flickering light and he would n't use hers . |
| 17 | Her head snapped back down in a flurry of bouncing coppery hair , her eyes warily searching Lucenzo 's face for some sign of compassion . |
| 18 | The emotive logo — the crudely drawn child 's face with a big blue teardrop rolling from its eye — became familiar to every family in Britain . |
| 19 | She took it through to the kitchen where she and her friend were breakfasting and handed it over without speaking , then watched Stella 's face as she read . |
| 20 | Then she looked closer studying Jinny 's face . |
| 21 | But he had never seen Farouk 's face . |
| 22 | I shall never forget Jordi 's face , his rueful smile , his fatalistic shrug as he was pushed into the car . |
| 23 | A radiant expression fleetingly crossed Ari 's face , followed by clouds . |
| 24 | All the children : bright , kempt Juliette , who hears poems at home and whose eyes never leave Beth 's face ; and Jamie , whose ‘ mother does n't care ’ ( as Jimmy Adair put it in a John Walsh poem ) and ‘ who stays up half the night , you see ’ ( Walsh 1960 ) . |
| 25 | All the while his eyes never left Ronni 's face . |
| 26 | For a second the count just stood there and then he came slowly across to them , his eyes never leaving Maggie 's face until he was close . |
| 27 | She moved closer to the picture , her eyes never leaving Ward 's face , her feet brushing against the soft silk as she walked over it . |