Example sentences of "face to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rex made one of his most doubtful faces to date . |
| 2 | This is probably what accounts for the fact that being featured in one of those articles entitled ‘ Faces to Watch in the New Year ’ , or worse , ‘ Who Will Be Who in the Coming Decade ’ is almost inevitably a ticket to total oblivion . |
| 3 | It will bring lots of new faces to Barbados and hopefully set new standards . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm sure I do n't need to inform Gadfly that it is the media that put faces to names . |
| 5 | We hope you find it useful in putting faces to names . |
| 6 | Roger 's Assistant today is Su Evans , a well-known face to viewers who enjoy Central 's antiques programme , Something To Treasure . |
| 7 | When they arrived at Louise 's house , Grégoire raised a small pinched face to Edouard 's , and Edouard took his hand and pressed it . |
| 8 | There were tears in his eyes as he turned his face to Tallis . |
| 9 | When I looked from his face to O's ( my eyes often followed Madame 's ) I saw an older face , one I thought had been weathered by sex and by that indefinable sorrow of O's into a quiet , strong silence . |
| 10 | ‘ You killed him , ’ challenged Thai , and turned a sweaty face to Doyle , who shook his head and smiled . |
| 11 | The aim is to enable organisations to present a friendly face to visitors . |
| 12 | But er , I think the advice that erm , Mr is giving us about who we talk to and when to talk to them , how we get to get together and present a united face to government is a , is a good suggestion , and I 'd like to propose that er , we accept that . |
| 13 | But I do n't think Mr Drennan … ’ he shot a quick look in Malachi 's direction , before turning a sympathetic face to Bull O'Malley ‘ I do n't think Mr Drennan intended that he should ask for your daughter and expect you to make a decision on the spur of the moment . |
| 14 | I wonder ’ — his eyes went quickly from my face to Holmes ' — ‘ did you hear anything else at all ? ’ |
| 15 | De Villiers ' hazel eyes shot from her face to fitzAlan at the bright greeting . |
| 16 | It refers on its face to Ord. 47 , r. 8 of the County Court Rules 1981 . |
| 17 | He put on a brave face to Sunday Express readers : ‘ I hope it will be believed that the Arsenal can take a licking as well as any other club . |
| 18 | I 'll leap into my life , he thought , if it splits my face to bits . |
| 19 | ‘ There is a man who lives in this vale , ’ Crump said bitterly , turning a hard face to Hope , whose notion about the murder underwent a radical revision : Crump would be no willing accomplice in his own end . |
| 20 | Outside , Juliet lifted her face to David 's . |
| 21 | Reluctantly , they knelt beside him as he raised his face to heaven and prayed , . |
| 22 | I intended to tell you last evening , but what with one thing and another — ’ He released her chin and slid his fingers up the side of her face to cup it . |
| 23 | A young foal will sometimes make this face to people if it feels uncertain about them . |
| 24 | This provides not only a familiar and welcome face to people who have not been exposed to library services but also provides a medium of communication through the use of community languages . |
| 25 | Human bring a human face to people . |
| 26 | Once she had , after she had listened with a gentle face to Jack 's admission , his ultimatum , that Alison was different , Alison was ‘ for keeps ’ , believed that nothing could be worse , that she had now experienced the worst . |
| 27 | Maud Ellmann , in her brilliant reading of Eliot 's The Waste Land , ‘ Eliot 's Abjection ’ , is similarly concerned with the figure of prosopopoeia , here the giving of face to death itself — a case of killing the past by finding it already dead . |
| 28 | Lucy demanded , a sudden apprehension gripping her as she stared from Doreen 's smug face to Silas 's back . |
| 29 | Last year ACET educators saw 24,500 pupils in face to face presentations . |
| 30 | Round the semi-circle of chairs quick looks flicked from face to face . |