1.   Even when you rub their noses in it, politicians can be remarkably slow to recognise reality for what it is.

2.   He kept blinking to clear his eyes and now he rubbed his nose.

3.   He stepped forward, stopped suddenly, and rubbed his nose.

4.   The Deputy Under Secretary rubbed his nose, watched a flake of skin pirouette down to the opened pages of the file.

5.   They rubbed their noses on it so that globs of anthrax green snot hung off it in the morning.

6.   Kick their bloody backsides, then rub their noses against a mirror until they could see themselves as they really are.

7.   Although it appeared he could have gotten up, Douglas stayed on the canvas rubbing his nose as referee Mills Lane counted him out with a disgusted look.

8.   And he knew he was one of a kind, which is too bad because he rubbed our noses in it.

9.   A family with a special roof vantage point almost rubs noses with him as he passes.

10.   Celebrities rub our noses in our own emptinesses.