Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] to [noun sg] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stabbed Ben to death with a pair of dress-making scissors and then tried to kill herself . |
| 2 | The SFO has earned its reputation for bringing cases to trial with glacial slowness . |
| 3 | It goes every day and I can assure you that your cousin who is helping Germany to victory with her work will receive them very quickly . ’ |
| 4 | People do not build resistance to tetanus with time or age . |
| 5 | He took her by both hands , and drew her up to stand breast to breast with him . |
| 6 | Forget Bart Simpson : send children to school with bags , lunch boxes and stationery decorated with NSPCC 's Happy Kids design . |
| 7 | It is imperative to meet face to face with the client and to visit the company to be valued to get a ‘ feel ’ for the business . |
| 8 | The Zoo 's own photographer managed to come face to face with this somewhat disrespectful giraffe , and yes , he was in an area available to the general public — albeit in a slightly acrobatic pose ! |
| 9 | Nell half expected to come face to face with Mahon inside . |
| 10 | ‘ Do those people at unemployment offices know what it 's like to come face to face with them ? ’ said Sharon . |
| 11 | Although Howard did n't actually have to come face to face with Brando , they had to share the same set . |
| 12 | It 's one thing to sit in a classroom writing down notes but it 's quite another to come face to face with an armed murderer or a cornered rapist , you mark my words . ’ |
| 13 | Jenny was curiously reluctant to come face to face with this intruder whoever it was . |
| 14 | In fact , this was a totally disastrous time for her to come face to face with him . |
| 15 | ‘ I understand how you feel , but I think it would do your sister the world of good to come face to face with reality for once . ’ |
| 16 | He swung himself nimbly over the fence and was disconcerted to come face to face with Henry Yaxlee , walking purposefully from the direction of the school . |
| 17 | Besides , the last thing she wanted was to come face to face with Rune again , especially if he was in the arms of a reconciled Lotta ! |
| 18 | He has a right to come face to face with me , and judge for himself whether he can honourably deliver them , and never fear that he is helping to lure a brave man to his death . ’ |
| 19 | ( ‘ If forced to come face to face with the Subject avoid catching the Subject 's eye . ’ ) |
| 20 | Miguel Rafaelo said quietly , ‘ You do n't want to come face to face with yourself , then , Shelley . |
| 21 | And they 're made to come face to face with people who 've lost friends or relatives in drink driving accidents . |
| 22 | If they get the money , it 'll give the people of Gloucestershire the chance to come face to face with thir ancestors . |
| 23 | The memory of the terrible moment she had come face to face with Salt rolled over her . |
| 24 | But now I had come face to face with her four days after she stood before the House of Commons and declared that there were too many hospital beds in London , and that as a result , St Bartholomew 's Hospital , along with numerous others great and small , would have to close , merge or become emasculated . |
| 25 | The poor fellow thought he had come face to face with an alien . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Like Hamlet , they had come face to face with its essential horror and absurdity . |
| 28 | At least once in their lives , most of these men would have met Thorfinn : more perhaps than had come face to face with King Duncan in the six years of his reign and before , when he had been prince of Cumbria in the shadow of Malcolm his grandfather . |
| 29 | A farmer who 's threatened to shoot her cattle rather than allow a bypass through her land , has come face to face with officials who want to build the road . |
| 30 | On his way home , he had come face to face with the two youths with whom he had argued earlier . |