Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] face to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By some terrific fluke Richard came face to face with his future at the precise time he most needed to see it . |
| 2 | The world-famous pecussionist Evelyn Glennie came face to face with the musicians of the future today . |
| 3 | In principle , therefore , there was now a global US policy even if , in Vietnam , it depended upon a French surrogate , and when Acheson and Schuman met face to face , after apparently unrecorded or at least so far undisclosed conversation , Acheson wanted to establish a close and immediate connection between the problem of Southeast Asia and the defence of the West . |
| 4 | As Big Ben ticked … the cameras clicked as the oarsman of Oxford and Cambridge came face to face for the official challenge |
| 5 | Oxford and Cambridge came face to face for the first time today when the scales were set for the official weigh-in . |
| 6 | Hilda Bernstein , the wife of one of those on trial , wrote : ‘ The Rivonia trial was a confrontation in which the opposing forces in South Africa appeared face to face ; those who stood for apartheid … and those who opposed it . |
| 7 | Moments earlier 18-year-old Fisher came face to face with victim Mary Jo Buttafuoco for the first time since the doorstep shooting . |
| 8 | When the French and the Vietminh came face to face in the south there was , apparently , no room for compromise and conflict was almost immediate . |
| 9 | One Saturday morning Bob came face to face with him as he emerged from the communal bathroom on the first half-landing . |
| 10 | Jumping the last two steps and turning into the hall , Hilary came face to face with Ryan . |
| 11 | ROCK star Cher came face to face with ex-husband Sonny for the first time in five years … and loathed it . |