Example sentences of "[pron] face to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The farm stands on a spur of moorland on the northern edge of the forest , and within 10 minutes I had turned my back on the corduroy battalions of trees and was striding under a still , cloudy sky over tussocks of rush and coarse grass , with my face to the long , bare shoulders of open hillside that flank the winding shallows of the East Kielder Burn . |
| 2 | Still suffering occasional wooziness from the altitude , I sat on the steps , turned my face to the warm sun and was subjected to my first unsuccessful robbery : two little nicks in the zip pocket of my top . |
| 3 | I lay back and turned my face to it . |
| 4 | A hundred feet would see me clear of the danger zone , and this distance I covered foot by foot , walking sideways with my face to the rocks and the rifle to my shoulder ; a strange mode of progress , had there been any to see it . |
| 5 | One day , coming across June in the corridor alone , instead of hurrying past , my face to the wall , I stopped and spoke to her . |
| 6 | I 'll leap into my life , he thought , if it splits my face to bits . |
| 7 | My fingers ache and I feel my face to be beetroot-red . |
| 8 | She gathered my face to her heart . |
| 9 | I wonder ’ — his eyes went quickly from my face to Holmes ' — ‘ did you hear anything else at all ? ’ |
| 10 | All the while you were building this future I knew there 'd come a morning like this , when I 'd smile sadly as I left you , when I 'd give a last half wave at the corner , when I 'd set my face to the reality of the serious work ahead . |
| 11 | He turned my face to his and kissed them away — overpowering me with such a potent mixture of excitement and tenderness and yearning that I almost swooned . |
| 12 | Every time I co , I put my face to the window they go , oh no , he 's back again ! |
| 13 | ‘ Terrific surprise when you meet someone face to face , ’ says Freddie . |
| 14 | But if you 've got the right attitude and right , as I said on the notes , right voice and the right er personality , it it 's just the same as having somebody face to face . |
| 15 | He knew he was wealthy , set up for life , but he was already being made to pay for the taking of those lives : almost every night since , he had been troubled by dreams in which he found himself face to face once more with his victims . |
| 16 | Now ’ — he brought himself face to face with his Rolex — ‘ tempus fucks it . |
| 17 | But suppose that he proceeds in the general direction from where he assumed by voice came and suddenly found himself face to face with a stranger who looked very similar to myself . |
| 18 | Immediately inside the tangle of bushes Nathaniel Sherman was astonished to find himself face to face with the massive standing bulk of the black seladang bull . |
| 19 | It was at this point that he found himself face to face with Cinzia Miletti . |
| 20 | It might surprise us to find such superstitious attitudes in modern society ( though of course , conservatives set their face to the past ) . |
| 21 | First and foremost , the requirements of the Regulations as amplified in communications from the revenue amounted on their face to lawful demands from the Crown . |
| 22 | First and foremost , the requirements of the Regulations as amplified in communications from the revenue amounted on their face to lawful demands from the Crown . |
| 23 | Men crying with loud and bitter cries , till the anguish of their souls had opened every pore of the body , and produced a perspiration which fell from their face to the ground . |
| 24 | It looked , in that half-light , like a big framed picture , propped up with its face to the wall . |
| 25 | As she came within a few yards of it , however , a shudder passed down its spine , and it rolled over , showing its face to the sleet . |
| 26 | It refers on its face to Ord. 47 , r. 8 of the County Court Rules 1981 . |
| 27 | With haughtily reassuring windows , tall , regular , gleaming , discreet , and vivid brass bellpulls , and deep steps of extraordinary cleanliness , a poor man might walk here as a Dickensian child put its face to a windowpane . |
| 28 | A girl of twelve turned her face to the wall , refused all nourishment , and so passed away . |
| 29 | His hand was warm ; he pulled her face to his face with his warm hand . |
| 30 | ‘ She looked at her step-mother but uttered not a single word ; she simply picked up our big drap-de-dames green shawl ( it 's a shawl we all use , a drap-de-dames one ) , and covered her head and face entirely with it ad lay down on the bed with her face to the wall , ad her little shoulders and her whole body were trembling . ' |