Example sentences of "[vb -s] [noun sg] [prep] face with " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Joey 's used to dealing with difficult customers , but when he comes face to face with a gun-toting angry young man , it takes all his soothing charm to save the day .
2 TIM AND PATSY STOTHERT 'S QUAKER MEETING HOUSE IS APTLY NAMED , FOR IN IT DIVERSE STYLES CONVERGE AND VICTORIANA COMES FACE TO FACE WITH ART DECO .
3 STIFF BRITISH upper lip comes face to face with Japanese Prisoner Of War Camp cruelty and is forced , perish the thought , to compromise .
4 DRINK Shots into oblivion A sober Laurie Taylor comes face to face with a bloody awful drug
5 Part lecture , part slide show , part comedy act , it is Miller 's take on Noakes ' life , whisking us from John 's fledgling years in Halifax , through to startling revelations about Valerie Singleton , Joy Division and Shep 's death , and finally to Majorca , where he comes face to face with his hero .
6 When one hellraiser comes face to face with another , everyone battens down the hatches and prepares for all hell to break loose .
7 If you are single and the potentially perfect partner comes face to face with you at work , perhaps you have no option but to start a relationship .
8 He runs straight up the stone steps leading to the terrace — it 's part of a small public garden — rounds the urn at the top , and comes face to face with her , with no idea at all inside his head as to what words will emerge from his mouth .
  Next page