Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] face [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | SUMMERCHILD : Actually , I do feel a little as if I were coming face to face with my past in some kind of way . |
2 | In this context the first reactions of Europeans to the reality of the native inhabitants of the Americas is of particular interest , for here , in a very explicit sense , experience and fantasy were brought face to face . |
3 | Barbara wished they were talking face to face . |
4 | Before I could deliver another , he had grasped my wrist and we were fighting face to face , nearly falling into the fire as we did so . |
5 | Interviews were conducted face to face . |
6 | One result of this moral panic was that , even as the anxiety mentioned by Furlong ( ibid. ) forced us to react to these public demands with some arrests , we insiders with ‘ special knowledge ’ , who were working face to face with the counter-culture , knew there was a different social reality abroad which we could never adequately explain to the entrepreneur or encapsulate for the media headline . |
7 | 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 ! |
8 | While travelling on the mainland of South America , Darwin was brought face to face with the conflict that was under way between the European settlers and the native Indians . |
9 | She was standing face to face with a boy in the public park at the end of Decimus Street . |