Example sentences of "go [adj] [prep] the face " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you touch that fish I 'll have you up the steps before you can say Jack Robinson , ’ hissed Herbie , going blue in the face ‘ Whaddya mean , ’ argued Lofty , ‘ I found im and I got ta licence . ’ |
| 2 | Characters must not go white in the face , that is to say , or tremble like leaves — ‘ not because these phrases are clichés , but because they are untrue . ’ |
| 3 | But he had little reason yet to ask for a search warrant and Mr Simpson would go purple in the face and throw every legal book in his considerable library at him if he so much as tried . |
| 4 | He went red in the face . |
| 5 | ‘ When no-one was available to see him he went red in the face and started thumping the desk , ’ said Ann . |
| 6 | This is the point at which I as a mathematical physicist begin to splutter and go red in the face . |
| 7 | But if you saw him running for the bus , he would go blue in the face and collapse on to the bus . |
| 8 | Kilns are temperamental — if you get the balance wrong you can feed it till you go blue in the face and get nowhere . ’ |
| 9 | He thumbs through it , glances at the summary and goes red in the face . |