Example sentences of "[adj] face to [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Virginia switched her disconcertingly direct aquamarine gaze from her father 's haggard face to her brother Charles 's preoccupied gloom , finishing up on her sister-in-law Lucy 's flushed , anxious expression . |
| 2 | Mohamed claimed that " the anti-tropical timber activists see in the Penans an opportunity to put a human face to their campaign for temperate timber . |
| 3 | When the carts had moved on Joseph turned a horrified face to his brother . |
| 4 | As he passed , Terry Gafferty turned his thin pock-marked face to his mate , Solly Newport . |
| 5 | Not large enough , though , for William 's son John , who became the Member of Parliament for Wilton in 1701 and subsequently built on this exquisite face to his childhood home . |
| 6 | When the local doctor , confounded by the sparrow size of his patients , informed the couple that they were to become parents , llya Holovich had dropped her lined and weary face to her chest and wept , and Stepan Holovich had jumped up from his chair and then scratched between his thin grey hair and laughed . |
| 7 | Turning a glowing face to her companion , Luce exclaimed , ‘ Are n't they wonderful ? ’ |