Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] in the face " in BNC.
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| 1 | I turn away so I ca n't look at her , but she leans over and looks me straight in the face . |
| 2 | It was no doubt in part at least to consolidate himself dynastically in the face of the threat posed by Oswine that Oswiu married Eanflaed , daughter of Eadwine and Aethelburh , and therefore of part-Deiran , part-Kentish extraction , c. 644 ( her son , Ecgfrith , was in his fortieth year in 685 ) ( HE 111 , 15 ) . |
| 3 | In that instant , I brought up my branch , so that he caught it right in the face . |
| 4 | To which and looking him straight in the face , she had answered , ‘ Do n't count on it , ever . ’ |
| 5 | Now it was drawing to its end she gathered the courage to look him straight in the face . |
| 6 | She pulled herself together , swallowing hard , and forced herself to look him straight in the face . |
| 7 | ( He resumes pacing , then , spinning on his heels to avoid the wall , he veers round , stares you straight in the face , hands flared , fingers spread frozen in time and space , chin tucked in on itself like a gossiping neighbour , takes another deep breath through the nose , opens his mouth , swivels his eyes to left and right and walks clean out of the room . |
| 8 | He bellowed with pain and rage , and sitting astride , continued punching her savagely in the face until she lay still . |
| 9 | The girl pushed past , but the youth again demanded money before punching her hard in the face . |
| 10 | Its defenders have certainly been reluctant to give it up in the face of criticisms , for fear that ‘ without it , the macro-economists would be adrift in a sea of unorganized data ’ ( Samuelson and Nordhaus 1985 ) . |
| 11 | Why cause ourselves so much anxiety , and spend so much time , money and energy on failed diet/exercise routines when the answer to all our problems is staring us right in the face . |
| 12 | Peter Gore attacked off-duty PC Ivor Jones ‘ like a mad dog ’ , gripping him in a head lock , thumping him repeatedly in the face , and smashing his head against a gatepost . |
| 13 | Why , once he looked me right in the face and sneered . |
| 14 | And then he looked me straight in the face , ‘ One day , soon , Nicky , God 's spirit is going to deal with you . |
| 15 | Melanie looked me squarely in the face . |
| 16 | Some houses frown ; some look indignant , prim or shy ; but this one looked you straight in the face and greeted you with a smile . |
| 17 | Mrs Bennett , large , matriarchal and down-to-earth , stared her straight in the face . |
| 18 | He looked her straight in the face . |
| 19 | He came and stood beside her , and looked her straight in the face . |
| 20 | She looked him straight in the face now as she said , ‘ She does n't take such things into account ; she 's a law unto herself ’ |
| 21 | Summoning her courage , Folly looked him squarely in the face . |
| 22 | I looked him square in the face . |
| 23 | It was difficult , even though she had been told all the problems of Gesner , to continue to hold oneself together in the face of such blatant hatred . |
| 24 | He just looked at me and then punched me straight in the face . |
| 25 | Without any provocation or excuse , M. struck her violently in the face with a rolled up newspaper . |
| 26 | It was a pursuit which , with savage irony , took her across Lawrence Road , scene of her last attack in December 1991 when a youth punched her hard in the face . |
| 27 | You go into a café where the sight and smell of freshly baked Danish pastries hits you squarely in the face as you walk through the door . |