Example sentences of "[vb pp] face to [noun sg] with " in BNC.

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1 The memory of the terrible moment she had come face to face with Salt rolled over her .
2 But now I had come face to face with her four days after she stood before the House of Commons and declared that there were too many hospital beds in London , and that as a result , St Bartholomew 's Hospital , along with numerous others great and small , would have to close , merge or become emasculated .
3 The poor fellow thought he had come face to face with an alien .
4 I wanted to meet Marius Durance — I 've always especially admired his work and it seemed crazy to be so close and not come face to face with him .
5 Like Hamlet , they had come face to face with its essential horror and absurdity .
6 At least once in their lives , most of these men would have met Thorfinn : more perhaps than had come face to face with King Duncan in the six years of his reign and before , when he had been prince of Cumbria in the shadow of Malcolm his grandfather .
7 A farmer who 's threatened to shoot her cattle rather than allow a bypass through her land , has come face to face with officials who want to build the road .
8 On his way home , he had come face to face with the two youths with whom he had argued earlier .
9 But that is explained , partly , by the fact that Mike did the negotiations himself and they were often done face to face with Jefferson .
10 To help mark the anniversary a facsimile of the mummy , produced by a new British technique , will be at an exhibition called Face to Face with Tutankhamun , in Dorchester , Dorset , tomorrow .
11 A survey conducted on behalf of the Institute of Marketing into selling practice in the UK ( PA Consultants , 1979 ) found that , on average , only 20–30 per cent of a salesperson 's normal working day is spent face to face with customers .
12 We are brought face to face with the question , ‘ What is the purpose of human life itself ? ’
13 ‘ Sometimes one is brought face to face with facts which can not be buried .
14 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 .
15 He announced that courts would be given powers to bind parents over for the good behaviour of their children so that they could be ‘ brought face to face with their neglect ’ .
16 Now although I am a born sceptic , suddenly being brought face to face with a seemingly identical facsimile of what I had been working on did make me pause for a few moments !
17 She had never been brought face to face with her great-uncle , and never devoted any conscious thought to him .
18 By January 1946 de Gaulle had been brought face to face with the reality that a basic incompatibility of outlook and temperament existed between himself and the members of the assembly .
19 Offenders are brought face to face with people who 've lost loved ones in drink-driving accidents .
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