Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] to [noun sg] with " in BNC.
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1 | People do not build resistance to tetanus with time or age . |
2 | He took her by both hands , and drew her up to stand breast to breast with him . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 ! |
5 | Nell half expected to come face to face with Mahon inside . |
6 | ‘ Do those people at unemployment offices know what it 's like to come face to face with them ? ’ said Sharon . |
7 | Although Howard did n't actually have to come face to face with Brando , they had to share the same set . |
8 | 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 . ’ |
9 | Jenny was curiously reluctant to come face to face with this intruder whoever it was . |
10 | In fact , this was a totally disastrous time for her to come face to face with him . |
11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 ! |
14 | 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 . ’ |
15 | ( ‘ If forced to come face to face with the Subject avoid catching the Subject 's eye . ’ ) |
16 | Miguel Rafaelo said quietly , ‘ You do n't want to come face to face with yourself , then , Shelley . |
17 | And they 're made to come face to face with people who 've lost friends or relatives in drink driving accidents . |
18 | If they get the money , it 'll give the people of Gloucestershire the chance to come face to face with thir ancestors . |
19 | The memory of the terrible moment she had come face to face with Salt rolled over her . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | The poor fellow thought he had come face to face with an alien . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | Like Hamlet , they had come face to face with its essential horror and absurdity . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | On his way home , he had come face to face with the two youths with whom he had argued earlier . |
27 | Although Bekenstein 's hypothesis that black holes have a finite entropy requires for its consistency that black holes should radiate thermally , at first it seems a complete miracle that the detailed quantum-mechanical calculations of particle creation should give rise to emission with a thermal spectrum . |
28 | Like other frontier peoples , the French Basques have not always seen eye to eye with Paris . |
29 | And came nose to nose with the tortoiseshell . |
30 | He is able to talk man to man with the Chartist delegates , in the confidence that his family has worked through many generations for the common good — building churches and bridges , making roads , digging mines , planting trees , and draining marshland . |