Example sentences of "[be] [noun] to [noun sg] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | A well-lit position and dryish compost are keys to success with poinsettia |
| 2 | In a few seconds time he might be face to face with the man who had killed Daniel . |
| 3 | The curtains — drapes — in the latest Hebridean ferries are floor to ceiling with tie-backs and the carpets are wall to wall . |
| 4 | and I wanted to clarify that , and make sure that our procedures actually were back to back with contract procedure . |
| 5 | She felt as if they were face to face with an inquisitor . |
| 6 | THE cricket season it would appear is back to front with the excellent weather coming late in the summer and the two principal magazines which cover the sport , only hitting the news-stands in the last couple of weeks . |
| 7 | THE cricket season it would appear is back to front with the excellent weather coming late in the summer and the two principal magazines which cover the sport , only hitting the newsstands in the last couple of weeks . |
| 8 | If a killer thinks , even if only for a split second , that it is face to face with an owl or an eagle , it is very likely to back away and this may give the harmless bluffer enough time to escape . |
| 9 | Your heroine makes a pointed remark , the mysterious man she is face to face with comes back with something yet sharper , more menacing . |
| 10 | Truth can not be confined to traditional religions , nor can any particular religion claim to have a monopoly of Truth , for where that kind of particularization of the Ultimate takes place , we are face to face with what Tillich calls demonization . |
| 11 | If we are face to face with the person sending the message , then we notice what they are doing with their face , eyes , and body while speaking : maybe they smiled , or shook their fist , or looked away . |
| 12 | A closed van was coming fast from the other direction , and the Montego was nose to tail with the car in front of it . |
| 13 | What nobody ever did was go to bed with someone because he was virtuous . ’ |
| 14 | He had known very little about himself until he was face to face with death . |
| 15 | Now for the first time she was face to face with fragmented suggestions of reality , distorted perhaps , like the sun glancing on water , but hinting at something very different from the fairy tale princess the child Harriet had claimed as her own . |
| 16 | And then I was face to face with the biggest , and ugliest lad ever . |
| 17 | Thus he persuaded himself when writing to Theo , but not when he was face to face with a spitting hell-cat who abused him vilely , telling him to stop messing about with his stupid painting , scraping and altering it until her nerves were in shreds . |
| 18 | For the first time in her life , Louisa had come into one of the dwellings of the Coketown Hands ; for the first time in her life , she was face to face with anything like individuality in connection with them . |
| 19 | Softly , so as not to wake him , she turned her long slim form until she was face to face with his sleeping figure . |
| 20 | He reached her , he was face to face with her , the press girl Annabel was plucking at his clinging black roll-neck 's sleeve gingerly , with her fingertips . |
| 21 | She was face to face with Benedict and Merlyn Joseph . |
| 22 | It was the largest I had ever seen , split up into walled units , ten of them Ward had said , and when I reached the western limit of it I was face to face with the heaving bulk of the ocean . |
| 23 | And now she was face to face with a man who really believed her grandmother was guilty . |
| 24 | I was face to face with … |
| 25 | Their eyes met for the space of a long heartbeat , and despite the clean white bandage round the man 's forehead and the strip of plaster on one bruised cheek , Grant felt a surge of rage at the thought that he was face to face with the brutal oriental who had hurt Pam . |
| 26 | Now that she was face to face with Bridget , her mind was fully engaged in a debate as to how much she should tell her friend about events in Paris . |
| 27 | There he was face to face with himself — times six . |