Example sentences of "[v-ing] her [prep] the face " in BNC.
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| 1 | They bundled her into the living room punched and threatened her with a knife , before spraying her in the face with Ammonia . |
| 2 | She remembered screaming , remembered one of the storm-troopers punching her in the face to stop her . |
| 3 | He raped the pregnant woman , whom he knew , at her Wigan home last autumn , after suddenly losing his temper and punching her in the face . |
| 4 | ‘ Are you … ? ’ she began , but she did n't want to believe what was staring her in the face . |
| 5 | Leith , with two very large problems staring her in the face — the mortgage and Naylor Massingham , despite his action yesterday still there metaphorically breathing down her neck — thought a denial preferable to dampening her mother 's present happy frame of mind . |
| 6 | To get out of the car to peer beneath its bonnet was not going to get her anywhere either , she knew in advance , because with her lack of mechanical knowledge the fault could be staring her in the face and she would never recognise it . |
| 7 | The marquis swore as she scratched his cheek , slapping her across the face with the back of his hand . |
| 8 | ‘ What do you think you 're doing ? ’ he barked at her striking her across the face . |