Example sentences of "[pron] face to face " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Terrific surprise when you meet someone face to face , ’ says Freddie . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Now ’ — he brought himself face to face with his Rolex — ‘ tempus fucks it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was at this point that he found himself face to face with Cinzia Miletti . |
| 8 | In Liddie 's case , however , it had brought her face to face with a disenchanted childhood which she had not wanted to recognize . |
| 9 | He could tell her face to face how sorry he was for the incident of the previous night . |
| 10 | ‘ But Bill knew you existed , ’ she said , ‘ and he told me he did n't recognize you face to face . ’ |
| 11 | A DAY out in Essex could bring you face to face with sharks , tigers or an Egyptian mummy — provided you know where to look . |
| 12 | ‘ I wanted to see you face to face . ’ |
| 13 | I think I 'd better see you face to face . |
| 14 | I had , after all , been summoned to meet you face to face in Downing Street the following morning and obviously any difficulties could be sorted out then . |
| 15 | D' ya think that could happen to you face to face as well though Lynne ? |
| 16 | But she almost turned and fled as she came round a corner and found herself face to face with Guido . |
| 17 | Top-line caddying was at first only part-time for Dave , although even a part-time career brought him face to face with the second of the twin imposters , disaster , in 1971 at the Open championship at Royal Birkdale . |
| 18 | I could never have said it to him face to face , but over the telephone I hesitated and said , ‘ But I thought the newspaper business was booming ! ’ |
| 19 | They could n't harm him face to face . |
| 20 | Originally , I felt quite negative towards him — until I met him face to face and thought , ‘ Oh , he 's quite a nice man . ’ |
| 21 | " And say your prayers regular , Tristram , that the good Lord may bring you back safe to us , " she added before turning quickly away to leave him face to face with Jennifer . |
| 22 | The duet continued , with Gesner planted solidly in the middle of the stage , and Therese whirling and gliding around him , managing never to confront him face to face , and with wit and grace stealing the scene totally back from him . |
| 23 | She must wait and see Paul , talk to him face to face . |
| 24 | Lucky old Shelley — the first woman to meet him face to face . ’ |
| 25 | A nationalist MP has challenged Loyalist gunmen , who murdered a father and son in Tyrone , to meet him face to face . |
| 26 | One of Stephanie close colleagues has been under gun guard , police guard for a week following death threats on the alleged kidnapper , as the net closed on him he phoned estate agent Jane the girl who helped prepare the second artist impression , Jane had met him face to face when he called at the office in Great Bar Birmingham days before the kidnap to collect details on several houses for sale , her blood ran cold when she picked up the phone on Wednesday February the twelfth to hear his voice again |
| 27 | It 's Death … and you want to ask it face to face . |
| 28 | ‘ There 's something I need to say to you , Dad , and I 'll never have the courage to do it face to face . |
| 29 | But if you ask for it face to face they 'll blo they 'll say well no I do n't do you did n't say that . |
| 30 | Kate and Dave find themselves face to face with Colombia 's most lethal drugs baron . |