Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] face to [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 | Barbara wished they were talking face to face . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She was standing face to face with a boy in the public park at the end of Decimus Street . |