Example sentences of "[pron] face [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I kept my face blank . |
| 2 | I do n't stick to one particular brand but I would never be without my face powder and I usually go for the heavy Sixties-style eye make-up — lots of black kohl pencil and mascara . |
| 3 | I was coming straight for you , ’ I panted , misting up the inside of my face visor . |
| 4 | I stooped down to put my face level with his . |
| 5 | Robert , I do n't like your cold foot in my face poo see if your feet smell , oh that 's clev , see Martin smell his feet |
| 6 | I had a ‘ Dutch boy ’ haircut when I was 13 and it made my face look really huge . |
| 7 | You ca n't beat a wet shave I find I find I mean people have said that oh having a wet shave makes my face sore and things like that . |
| 8 | Normally I like breakfast , but the milk 's too cold and it 's making my face ache . |
| 9 | Labour landslide : rushing through Sainsbury 's cackling like a demon , zooming up to prosperous-looking people and hurling my head back , opening my throat wide , then thrusting my face right into theirs , screaming terrifyingly into their terrified eyes ‘ Ha ha ha ! |
| 10 | I pressed my face right into the mud , I was urinating , certain that at any moment I should be killed . |
| 11 | … I had done this process before , once , but not under pressure , when Aunt Viv had set a combination on a new suitcase and then forgotten it … one-four-eight , one-four-nine … my face sweating , my fingers slipping on the tiny wheels from haste … one-five-zero , one-five-one … |
| 12 | In New York they were called an hour before the show opened , and once they had done their face make-up , they only had to put on tights rather than spend a long time carefully using wet white , which gave them longer to gossip . |
| 13 | Yet we can not take foreign accounts at their face value either . |
| 14 | However , loans to Argentina are said to change hands at between 12 and 15 per cent of their face value in the secondary debt market . |
| 15 | They loiter outside the big match with fistfuls of grubby tickets priced at many times their face value . |
| 16 | He must take the words ‘ God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering ’ at their face value . |
| 17 | UBS P & D plans a series of roadshows in Europe to present the proposals to Heron 's many thousands of bondholders who have seen bonds slashed to a third of their face value . |
| 18 | One can not , of course , take Beatrice 's accounts at their face value . |
| 19 | Bills of exchange : These are short-term debt instruments , i.e. claims , issued mainly by corporations and the government , purchased by the bank at less than their face value . |
| 20 | Many sociologists take these statistics at their face value , and use them as a ready-made source of data for their research . |
| 21 | In recent weeks at least six banks have sold all or part of their secured loans , for 61–65% of their face value . |
| 22 | Taken at their face value , such diagrams convey the impression that the president is the chief administrator of the federal government with all its employees directly answerable and accountable to him ; the reality , however , is very different . |
| 23 | Indeed , if taken at their face value , these measures suggest that Reagan was less successful in his dealings with the legislature than almost any other modern president . |
| 24 | Some have taken the official statistics at their face value and suggested that such violence is the infrequent action of a few psychologically disturbed men . |
| 25 | The debentures have a face value of £1.5 million , an annual interest rate of 10 per cent , mature in five years ' time and are currently selling at their face value . |
| 26 | Others have criticised such a view on the grounds that it introduces an undesirable ambiguity into the concept of existence , and have argued that propositions of this kind should not be taken at their face value but should be paraphrased in such a way as to prevent spurious names from usurping the role of subjects . |
| 27 | They were no longer happy to accept worksheets at their face value and we had two whole lessons with them querying and rearranging . |
| 28 | Furthermore , a brisk black market sprang up immediately as people without savings bought old Rbs50 and Rbs100 notes for a fraction of their face value . |
| 29 | But one must beware of accepting such statements at their face value as evidence of deep personal belief , for such phrases are taken from books which advised people how to compose documents , and Dr Margaret Spufford has shown how rural wills in Cambridgeshire were drawn up by only a small number of scribes . |
| 30 | By 1679 it was estimated that such payments were six or seven years in arrears ; and in the 1690s English diplomats were still very often paid merely in Exchequer tallies which could be cashed only after long delay and at ruinous discounts to their face value . |