Example sentences of "she was face to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Softly , so as not to wake him , she turned her long slim form until she was face to face with his sleeping figure . |
| 4 | She was face to face with Benedict and Merlyn Joseph . |
| 5 | And now she was face to face with a man who really believed her grandmother was guilty . |
| 6 | She pushed her way through the apprehensive nomes until she was face to face , or at least , since Nisodemus was standing on something and she was n't , face to chest . |
| 7 | 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 . |