Example sentences of "have come [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Although Howard did n't actually have to come face to face with Brando , they had to share the same set .
3 The memory of the terrible moment she had come face to face with Salt rolled over her .
4 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 .
5 The poor fellow thought he had come face to face with an alien .
6 Like Hamlet , they had come face to face with its essential horror and absurdity .
7 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 .
8 On his way home , he had come face to face with the two youths with whom he had argued earlier .
9 It is the first time all 22 Premier League chairmen have come face to face since the Noades-inspired walk-out last September when the so-called ‘ Platinum Eight ’ clubs blocked a £10million Bass sponsorship deal .
10 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 .
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