Example sentences of "he had a [adj] face " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a nice face and I had got used to him . |
| 2 | He had a pleasant face whose lines were more likely the result of his generally cheerful disposition rather than worry or the onset of middle age . |
| 3 | His father told him that story : his father looked at him through a glass : he had a hairy face . |
| 4 | He had a round face , large furry ears , a long curly tail and huge paws , and his thick yellow coat was decorated with large black spots . |
| 5 | He had a round face , a hard set expression , and a way of speaking with his mouth scarcely open so that his words fell out as though under the weight of their meaning . |
| 6 | He had a round face that had n't done much smiling until middle age , and an uptilted nose that perhaps had been busted and reset by a plumber . |
| 7 | He had a round face and was wearing a baseball cap . |
| 8 | He had a round face and was wearing a baseball cap . |
| 9 | Nothing perturbed him , and he had a sphinx-like face , with amber eyes which seemed to look into your soul . |
| 10 | He had a depressed face with long lines of worry . |
| 11 | He had a dark face , with angry-looking eyes , and was about thirty-five . |
| 12 | He was forty-one years old , but he had a young face , like a boy . |
| 13 | He had a louse-ridden face , dirty blond hair and carmine-painted lips . |
| 14 | He had a strong face , the jaw almost rugged , the nose classically bridged . |
| 15 | He had a thin face and pockmarked skin . |
| 16 | He had a strong-featured face that was attractive without being strictly good-looking , and hair that was the colour of deep copper . |
| 17 | He had a sweet face . |
| 18 | He had a grey face and there was something wrong with his eyes . |
| 19 | If he had a white face , you put a mark down that way see . |
| 20 | Goodness , he had a beautiful face . |
| 21 | He had a freckled face , pale and pointed , rather earnest , still schoolboyish . |
| 22 | He had a square face with a broken nose . |
| 23 | But he had a thinnish face , with an aquiline nose and really black hair . |
| 24 | He had a lean face and dark eyes that might have come from either his Gaelic or Jewish ancestry . |
| 25 | He had a soft face and a long white beard with red , yellow and blue bits at the end where he had dipped it in strange chemicals by mistake . |
| 26 | He had a pale face , deep blue eyes , hair darker and straighter than hers , and a mouth which curved and turned up at the corners in an almost feminine way . |
| 27 | ‘ I told the policeman he had a bonny face , ’ she explained . |
| 28 | I guessed he was in his forties and he had a hard face with small wary eyes and tightly curled hair that was cut very short . |