Example sentences of "face [vb pp] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And suddenly he had a maenad in his arms , fighting him , screaming , striking at him , the tears running down her face which fear had made unrecognisable , pushing him away , and when he let her go , for very decency 's sake , because he saw no way to calm her unless he did , she sank on to the sofa , still sobbing and crying , her face hidden in a cushion , her whole body heaving and shaking . |
| 2 | The bandit , his face hidden by a balaclava , attacked a woman collecting her company 's weekly payroll from a Stockton bank . |
| 3 | Philpott was sitting up in bed , his face hidden behind a copy of the New York Times . |
| 4 | Into his twilight existence her face floated like a mirage . |
| 5 | Yet I can only picture her in the posture of Candice Riberon in Le Métro lying on her back , her face caught in an agony of uncertain provenance . |
| 6 | The old man 's face wrinkled into a grin . |
| 7 | A YOUTH who inflicted what a sheriff described yesterday as an appalling gaping face wound on a teenager he slashed was ordered to be detained for 15 months in a young offenders ' institution . |
| 8 | Vologsky 's face clouded for a second . |
| 9 | The van loaded with newspapers appeared in the gates , its sinister gleaming look telling everyone to hate it ; the pickets surged forward , shouting ; and there was Jasper , as she had seen him so often , his pale face distorted with a look of abstracted and dedicated hate , his reddish crop of gleaming hair . |
| 10 | The manor house in Hampshire had long since passed from the family , the fortune was diminished ; but Sir Hugo 's long and melancholy face framed by a collar of exquisite lace still stared with arrogant condescension at the passing crowd , the definitive seventeenth-century Royalist gentleman . |
| 11 | Bending to pick it up , Constance saw her father 's face framed by a farm worker 's legs . |
| 12 | The poor mute nodded , his hideous face twisted into a smile , but when he looked at me , his eyes narrowed . |
| 13 | His face twisted into a grin . |
| 14 | Home 's face twisted into a snarl . |
| 15 | Doyle looked from him to the Woman and back again and his face twisted into an expression of complete scorn . |
| 16 | His face twisted in a grimace of pain or pure disgust and he threw away his cigarette and buried his head in his arms . |
| 17 | Trish was coming towards her , her pretty face twisted in a grimace . |
| 18 | Everything in me shoots high like a hot spring , like the fourth of July when my fingers meet your flowing cunt , my face twisted in an agony of pleasure . |
| 19 | In ex-army gear I would n't be seen , as long as I kept still , sitting on my hands , pale face buried in a heather clump , but those long heads that rose between rasping bites of coarse grass had twitching noses that never stopped their search for the enemy — a very efficient sort of olfactory radar . |
| 20 | A lady with a drained face wrapped in a nylon scarf and sitting at a table near by glanced up with a scowl . |
| 21 | Fräulein Silber 's somewhat chilly face splintered into a smile . |
| 22 | Her fingers positively itched with the overwhelming desire to see his arrogant face transformed by a slap . |
| 23 | His boyish face lit with a smile . |
| 24 | You 'll be better off there , believe — ’ She broke off and turned away , her face gripped by a sob . |
| 25 | Their eyes were on the Miracle-Worker , the Angel Gabriel , perched in motionless splendour on a silver-gilded cloud , his hair awash with sunlight and his magical face worn like a mask that concealed some greater magic . |
| 26 | His face burnt like a brand As the black cascade of perfume came tumbling over his breast ; And he kissed its waves in the moonlight , |
| 27 | He rose up light in the stirrups , He scarce could reach her hand , but she loosened her casement , his face burnt like a brand . |
| 28 | Her face set in a mask of intense fury , she slammed the doors hard as she left the court . |
| 29 | He shifted his grip on his sword and , as the leading rider drew near , stepped out onto the road with a hand held up and his face set in a grin nicely calculated to reassure yet threaten . |
| 30 | Finn put on a mask and turned into Mephistopheles , shaggy eyebrows and moustache , pointed beard on a mottled , red and yellow face set in a snarl . |