Example sentences of "face [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very slowly , fitzAlan came back to her , gazing down at her face for a long moment . |
| 2 | He stared into her pale furious face for a long time . |
| 3 | Gabriel looked into her face for a long time . |
| 4 | To pay for the considerable expense of running the hospital , the directors of Ca'Granda offered portraits to any worthy donor , the portrait to be painted full face for a large contribution , profile for a much smaller one and in various degrees between the two . |
| 5 | Bishop studied her face for a brief second . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd never suffered like that , not to the extent where tears were pouring down my face for no apparent reason . |
| 7 | One day , in Times Square , Dustin looked up and saw his face for the first time on a billboard . |
| 8 | Doubt flickered across Harris ' face for the first time . |
| 9 | Walking from the taxi to his apartment , Ross had felt the sting and throb in his face for the first time . |
| 10 | He had looked directly into her face for the first time and she saw his dark eyes blaze with a mixture of anger and pain . |
| 11 | As she rose , her eyes , which had flicked from side to side , looked him in the face for the first time . |
| 12 | Their enthusiastic welcome brought a smile to her face for the first time that morning . |
| 13 | My youngest daughter Ella will be two on Sunday — yet it seems like only yesterday that I looked at her pink , scrunched-up face for the first time and fell in love with her funny , quirky personality . |
| 14 | It struck her as comical , so soon after the expressions of revulsion and outrage on coming face to face for the first time with sexual deviance . |
| 15 | Oxford and Cambridge came face to face for the first time today when the scales were set for the official weigh-in . |
| 16 | As Big Ben ticked … the cameras clicked as the oarsman of Oxford and Cambridge came face to face for the official challenge |
| 17 | He remembered seeing his father 's face for the last time ; the coffin being lowered into its final resting place — and the hateful wake which followed . |
| 18 | She had seen Martin earlier that day in a quiet room in the undertakers where she had touched his soft , gentle face for the last time . |
| 19 | From the darkness where the thicker growth of box began , a shadowy figure slipped out to join him , and he saw the oval of a girl 's face as a paler gleam above her dark coat . |
| 20 | He screwed up his face as the hot water from the kitchen tap scalded his hand . |
| 21 | A remarkable hydraulic lift still plies the cliff face between the high promenade and the pier , and there are some imposing villas , but the grandest of grand hotels has been turned into flats . |
| 22 | I was seeing his pock-marked face through a red film of chlorine irritation . |
| 23 | She crawled along to it , and a moment later they were face to face through a large chink , Tristram grinning , his teeth white and his face sun-darkened , and the sight of him made her feel safe and loved again , as if she had arrived home . |
| 24 | Then she saw the man 's face through the open mouth and immediately turned her head away so that she appeared to be looking at something of consuming interest outside the window . |
| 25 | The prosecution alleges that Blissett ‘ cynically and deliberately ’ thrust his elbow into his opponent 's face during a mid-air duel for the ball . |
| 26 | But he had needed only to look at Lorrimer 's face during the past month to know that . |
| 27 | I saw that he was examining my face during the same silence . |
| 28 | He turned his wrinkled face towards the young hedgehog and looked at her with his deep brown eyes . |
| 29 | He began to push Gilbert 's face towards the carpeted floor . |
| 30 | With a cup of delicious coffee before her , Gina lifted her face towards the cloudless sky , enjoying the cool breeze which lifted the hair from her temples . |