Example sentences of "[was/were] face to [noun sg] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt as if they were face to face with an inquisitor . |
| 2 | He had known very little about himself until he was face to face with death . |
| 3 | Now for the first time she was face to face with fragmented suggestions of reality , distorted perhaps , like the sun glancing on water , but hinting at something very different from the fairy tale princess the child Harriet had claimed as her own . |
| 4 | And then I was face to face with the biggest , and ugliest lad ever . |
| 5 | Thus he persuaded himself when writing to Theo , but not when he was face to face with a spitting hell-cat who abused him vilely , telling him to stop messing about with his stupid painting , scraping and altering it until her nerves were in shreds . |
| 6 | For the first time in her life , Louisa had come into one of the dwellings of the Coketown Hands ; for the first time in her life , she was face to face with anything like individuality in connection with them . |
| 7 | Softly , so as not to wake him , she turned her long slim form until she was face to face with his sleeping figure . |
| 8 | He reached her , he was face to face with her , the press girl Annabel was plucking at his clinging black roll-neck 's sleeve gingerly , with her fingertips . |
| 9 | She was face to face with Benedict and Merlyn Joseph . |
| 10 | It was the largest I had ever seen , split up into walled units , ten of them Ward had said , and when I reached the western limit of it I was face to face with the heaving bulk of the ocean . |
| 11 | And now she was face to face with a man who really believed her grandmother was guilty . |
| 12 | I was face to face with … |
| 13 | Their eyes met for the space of a long heartbeat , and despite the clean white bandage round the man 's forehead and the strip of plaster on one bruised cheek , Grant felt a surge of rage at the thought that he was face to face with the brutal oriental who had hurt Pam . |
| 14 | Now that she was face to face with Bridget , her mind was fully engaged in a debate as to how much she should tell her friend about events in Paris . |
| 15 | There he was face to face with himself — times six . |