Example sentences of "come face to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The Zoo 's own photographer managed to come face to face with this somewhat disrespectful giraffe , and yes , he was in an area available to the general public — albeit in a slightly acrobatic pose !
2 Nell half expected to come face to face with Mahon inside .
3 ‘ Do those people at unemployment offices know what it 's like to come face to face with them ? ’ said Sharon .
4 Although Howard did n't actually have to come face to face with Brando , they had to share the same set .
5 It 's one thing to sit in a classroom writing down notes but it 's quite another to come face to face with an armed murderer or a cornered rapist , you mark my words . ’
6 Jenny was curiously reluctant to come face to face with this intruder whoever it was .
7 In fact , this was a totally disastrous time for her to come face to face with him .
8 ‘ I understand how you feel , but I think it would do your sister the world of good to come face to face with reality for once . ’
9 He swung himself nimbly over the fence and was disconcerted to come face to face with Henry Yaxlee , walking purposefully from the direction of the school .
10 Besides , the last thing she wanted was to come face to face with Rune again , especially if he was in the arms of a reconciled Lotta !
11 He has a right to come face to face with me , and judge for himself whether he can honourably deliver them , and never fear that he is helping to lure a brave man to his death . ’
12 ( ‘ If forced to come face to face with the Subject avoid catching the Subject 's eye . ’ )
13 Miguel Rafaelo said quietly , ‘ You do n't want to come face to face with yourself , then , Shelley .
14 And they 're made to come face to face with people who 've lost friends or relatives in drink driving accidents .
15 If they get the money , it 'll give the people of Gloucestershire the chance to come face to face with thir ancestors .
16 But one day , in the late seventies , he and Fleury happened to come face to face in Pall Mall and , after a moment , succeeded in recognizing each other .
17 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 .
18 The memory of the terrible moment she had come face to face with Salt rolled over her .
19 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 .
20 The poor fellow thought he had come face to face with an alien .
21 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 .
22 Like Hamlet , they had come face to face with its essential horror and absurdity .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 On his way home , he had come face to face with the two youths with whom he had argued earlier .
26 On the afternoon of Saturday 27 July 1689 the two armies came face to face at the pass of Killiecrankie , about midway between Pitlochry and Blair Castle , where the road ran through a narrow valley beside a deep gorge .
27 He let the veteran British know exactly how he felt when they recently came face to face at a film festival .
28 The Paul Jones and the emotional somersaults when the music stopped and they came face to face for the very first time .
29 As Big Ben ticked … the cameras clicked as the oarsman of Oxford and Cambridge came face to face for the official challenge
30 Oxford and Cambridge came face to face for the first time today when the scales were set for the official weigh-in .
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