Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now obviously the you could see the cars in that fast lane there , they were just nose to tail , nose to tail . |
| 2 | Also on the surge , they were quickly face to face with Mallachy and Rory . |
| 3 | Although the four of them were practically knee to knee , he made as if speaking in a vast auditorium . |
| 4 | We were now face to face with this man of diverse talent — poet , novelist , song-writer , performer — after following his career for nearly two decades , reading his books , playing his records , watching him sing , reading of him through the eyes of his critics — no easy feat when one is not inhibited by astigmatism ! |
| 5 | From the early summer of 1916 , the growth point of pacifist protest was not resistance to conscription , but the demand for a negotiated peace . |
| 6 | After ricocheting from one emotional moment to another today , she was now face to face with possible disaster . |
| 7 | There was n't time to edge away or even think as his mouth possessed her and his hands moved on her body , caressing it beneath the soft folds of her cotton top . |