Example sentences of "come [noun sg] to [noun sg] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | Nell half expected to come face to face with Mahon inside . |
| 3 | ‘ Do those people at unemployment offices know what it 's like to come face to face with them ? ’ said Sharon . |
| 4 | Although Howard did n't actually have to come face to face with Brando , they had to share the same set . |
| 5 | It 's one thing to sit in a classroom writing down notes but it 's quite another to come face to face with an armed murderer or a cornered rapist , you mark my words . ’ |
| 6 | Jenny was curiously reluctant to come face to face with this intruder whoever it was . |
| 7 | In fact , this was a totally disastrous time for her to come face to face with him . |
| 8 | ‘ I understand how you feel , but I think it would do your sister the world of good to come face to face with reality for once . ’ |
| 9 | He swung himself nimbly over the fence and was disconcerted to come face to face with Henry Yaxlee , walking purposefully from the direction of the school . |
| 10 | Besides , the last thing she wanted was to come face to face with Rune again , especially if he was in the arms of a reconciled Lotta ! |
| 11 | He has a right to come face to face with me , and judge for himself whether he can honourably deliver them , and never fear that he is helping to lure a brave man to his death . ’ |
| 12 | ( ‘ If forced to come face to face with the Subject avoid catching the Subject 's eye . ’ ) |
| 13 | Miguel Rafaelo said quietly , ‘ You do n't want to come face to face with yourself , then , Shelley . |
| 14 | And they 're made to come face to face with people who 've lost friends or relatives in drink driving accidents . |
| 15 | If they get the money , it 'll give the people of Gloucestershire the chance to come face to face with thir ancestors . |
| 16 | The memory of the terrible moment she had come face to face with Salt rolled over her . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The poor fellow thought he had come face to face with an alien . |
| 19 | I wanted to meet Marius Durance — I 've always especially admired his work and it seemed crazy to be so close and not come face to face with him . |
| 20 | Like Hamlet , they had come face to face with its essential horror and absurdity . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | On his way home , he had come face to face with the two youths with whom he had argued earlier . |
| 24 | And came nose to nose with the tortoiseshell . |
| 25 | Jess was a mellow sort of chap until he came face to face with a light bulb |
| 26 | With that decision people came face to face with the expectation known to the early Christians soon after the Crucifixion and to the deeply religious who shivered at the approach of the year A.D. 1000 — the expectation that they might indeed see the end of the world in their lifetime . |
| 27 | On the day Wright , awash with goals since his £2.5 million move across London , came face to face with his former Crystal Palace colleagues it was left to Merson to emphasise that Arsenal are playing like champions a little too late to worry Manchester United and Leeds . |
| 28 | It is reported that , while out riding in Wychwood Forest , he suddenly came face to face with the shade of Amy Robsart . |
| 29 | A Polynesian folktale tells of Rata , who travelled across the ocean and ingeniously outwitted a hungry whale by jamming open its jaws with a broken oar ; venturing in through the mouth he came face to face with his parents who had been gulped down before him . |
| 30 | 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 . |