Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [noun] to face [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miguel Rafaelo said quietly , ‘ You do n't want to come face to face with yourself , then , Shelley . |
| 2 | Father Morrow felt it his duty to try to appeal face to face to Tony 's parents to allow their son to live . |
| 3 | Nell half expected to come face to face with Mahon inside . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And they 're made to come face to face with people who 've lost friends or relatives in drink driving accidents . |
| 6 | Every time she imagined coming face to face with him her stomach knotted . |
| 7 | But one day , in the late seventies , he and Fleury happened to come face to face in Pall Mall and , after a moment , succeeded in recognizing each other . |
| 8 | Although Howard did n't actually have to come face to face with Brando , they had to share the same set . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | ( ‘ If forced to come face to face with the Subject avoid catching the Subject 's eye . ’ ) |
| 11 | The memory of the terrible moment she had come face to face with Salt rolled over her . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The poor fellow thought he had come face to face with an alien . |
| 14 | Like Hamlet , they had come face to face with its essential horror and absurdity . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | On his way home , he had come face to face with the two youths with whom he had argued earlier . |
| 17 | ‘ No one likes coming face to face with their mistakes , ’ he growled . |
| 18 | Since last May many of these same passers-by have come face to face on their TV screens with the agony , desolation and despair of the people of Ethiopia and the Sudan . |