Example sentences of "have [verb] face to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We have the luxury of course of having to go face to face anyway . |
| 3 | Although Howard did n't actually have to come face to face with Brando , they had to share the same set . |
| 4 | Well i I 'm not aware of how far he has taken anything on board , what I would expect as a Member of Parliament and the House of Commons , and as the leader of a party in the House of Commons , I would expect that he would want to hear what I would have to say face to face , and tell me face to face what 's wrong with what I have said . |
| 5 | The memory of the terrible moment she had come face to face with Salt rolled over her . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The poor fellow thought he had come face to face with an alien . |
| 8 | Like Hamlet , they had come face to face with its essential horror and absurdity . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | On his way home , he had come face to face with the two youths with whom he had argued earlier . |
| 11 | Now that traders no longer have to meet face to face , and can communicate by telephone or computer , the exchange is not so easy to identify . |
| 12 | It is the first time all 22 Premier League chairmen have come face to face since the Noades-inspired walk-out last September when the so-called ‘ Platinum Eight ’ clubs blocked a £10million Bass sponsorship deal . |
| 13 | Since last May many of these same passers-by have come face to face on their TV screens with the agony , desolation and despair of the people of Ethiopia and the Sudan . |