Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [noun sg] to face " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pushed the door open and walked straight into the parlour , where he came face to face with an overweight , half-shaven man dressed in a vest and trousers who was brandishing an open razor . |
| 2 | It was at this point that I came face to face with the realisation that human beings could be studied like other animals , and I went on , past chimpanzees , to investigate the behaviour of this strange creature that I christened The Naked Ape . |
| 3 | GUIL : And even if we came face to face , what do we say ? |
| 4 | The Paul Jones and the emotional somersaults when the music stopped and they came face to face for the very first time . |
| 5 | As he drew closer and they came face to face , she drew herself up and eyed him coldly . |
| 6 | Jess was a mellow sort of chap until he came face to face with a light bulb |
| 7 | The Bishop did not slow his stride until he came face to face with Garvey ‘ You see where your ill-manners have led you , man ? |
| 8 | He proceeded down the aisle towards the fallen cross , that now lay in front of the altar , before stopping over the dead German officer and continuing until he came face to face with Tommy , who was still holding a pistol pointing straight at his heart . |
| 9 | Isambard stepped into the dwindling lance of moonlight without haste , and walked the bright shaft of it until he stood face to face with the swaddled and muted figure of the boy . |
| 10 | All these thoughts were racing through my head when I came face to face with you , and when you did n't show me out I could n't entirely understand why . |
| 11 | Because if you leave anything to chance they 'll blow you out when you get face to face . |
| 12 | Well , for once a 25-year-old test with the fastest figures this magazine had ever produced at the time seems positively understated when you come face to face with the reality . |
| 13 | Heavens , if her heart beat like this at the sight of Luke 's stepmother , how would it react when she came face to face again with him ? she thought despairingly . |
| 14 | Thousands of gallons of water surround you as you come face to face with hundreds of fascinating sea creatures from around our own shores … octopus , conger eels , starfish and rays to name just a few , and all from astonishing angles and amazingly close quarters . |
| 15 | As she came face to face with the revolving doors her escorts stood aside to allow her to precede . |
| 16 | As she left the room , Shae slowly turned , her heart hammering in her chest like a jungle drum as she came face to face with Dane . |
| 17 | When we come face to face with a horse we often feel a need or pressure to do something . |
| 18 | How d' you think you 're going to feel , Joey , when we come face to face with a herd of elephant or a tawny tiger out there ? " |
| 19 | He was not at all what Brownlow expected when they came face to face . |
| 20 | More recently they shared the points when they came face to face in the league opener at Newry . |
| 21 | Against that , Labour in the person of Harold Wilson had a more widely respected leader then it has now , and many experienced Tory canvassers are convinced that thousands of former Tory voters who are now thinking of defecting will gloomily return to the Tory fold within the next few days as they come face to face with the possible reality of a Kinnock government . |
| 22 | In April of 1920 , Charlie Chaplin , then sweltering through the divorce proceedings brought against him by Mildred Harris , was eating in a fashionable hotel restaurant when he came face to face with Louis B Mayer . |
| 23 | Joey 's used to dealing with difficult customers , but when he comes face to face with a gun-toting angry young man , it takes all his soothing charm to save the day . |
| 24 | It must obviously be too late to go to the bazaar now , he thought with relief as he came face to face with the group , but he found himself trotting out the excuse about correcting papers and not noticing the time before anyone had had the chance to comment on his non-attendance . |