Example sentences of "[adj] [adv prt] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make a commitment never to bring this up against them again . |
| 2 | What happen was we was standing this jeweller 's , well really we 'd been there , she half the stuff for me and er other people and that , but erm , were standing there for ages , and she come , I 'm , I 'm sort of standing there like this up against the counter waiting to be served , suppose to be coming back right , stood right on the foot , it hurt , but I thought ok it 's a busy shop he wo n't so I 'd turned around , sort of he was there , so I sort of went to him like that and he was looked at me and fucking looked back , so I said are you gon na apologise then , getting right fucking pissed off cos I about three o'clock that day , hang over and being dragged up and down the town all fucking day ai n't my idea of fun you know , ri right in a bad mood anyway , and he said no in a real fucking why do n't you try and make me sort of attitude , so I 'm just about to fucking say something to me , like , how out the shop and everything , and she said what 's the fuck , what 's the matter with you then ? |
| 3 | well I can push this back against the |
| 4 | One of the game 's great half backs , manager Jarlath Cloonan gambled by playing him centre half back against Tipperary in the All Ireland semi-final . |
| 5 | One of the game 's great half backs , manager Jarlath Cloonan gambled by playing him centre half back against Tipperary in the All Ireland semi-final . |
| 6 | For sociological grouping of religions has encouraged an attitude of defining each over against others . |
| 7 | Jones was the unsung hero behind Wycombe 's thrilling comeback from 2-0 down against Ossie Ardiles ' side at Adams Park nine days ago . |
| 8 | Su'a despatched Stewart and Hick within six deliveries , and Gooch was in even more trouble than most outside off against Morrison , then Watson . |
| 9 | Fortunately for Liverpool , they were already 2-0 up against their part-time Norwegian opponents . |
| 10 | The Microprocessor Report has put Sun Microsystems Inc 's new Sparcstation 10 up against its rivals and measured integer and floating point performance of various Unix workstations against the SPEC92 benchmark suite . |
| 11 | Since he was not a natural captain he had to lead by example , and when the mighty deeds failed to materialize he was very much up against it . |
| 12 | You what s normally happens is that the following year when you make profit you say ah but last year I made er you know I made a loss of ten thousand pound set that off against the profit of ten thousand pound I made this year so that tax pay losses can be carried forward there are other more complex ways of doing it too but that 's the standard sort of way , I think . |
| 13 | Ferguson admitted : ‘ We showed a wee bit of nervousness in the first half , the sort of anxieties that were there when we were three down against Everton . ’ |
| 14 | All employers who meet childcare costs can set these off against their liability for corporation tax . |
| 15 | Cameron and Menzies were squeezed back nearly into the house , and big Mary , finding herself hard up against Menzies , took his arm , cleared a space with a sideways butt of her hip , and twirled once round with him . |
| 16 | ‘ I ran hard up against the class system , ’ he told Westminster 's House Magazine . |
| 17 | Secondly , its position , hard up against a modern building , and beside and across from many more , demands attention . |
| 18 | Marketplace , an advertising agency with blue-chip clients such as Sainsburys , took the brave decision to move south of the river and bought an Edwardian warehouse in Holyrood Street , hard up against the high-level railway lines leading into the station . |
| 19 | Beneath the table , hard up against the back of the monument , is Henry Cavendish 's skeleton , executed with some precision in marble , whilst in front is a truly magnificent image of the First Earl in the latest fashion for the grave . |
| 20 | Bodie flung himself to the window-sill , leaning hard up against the plate glass and searching to right and left of the playground . |
| 21 | He will almost certainly complete the turn hard up against the kerb , front wheel off the ground , still using body weight to steer ( with the front wheel airborne he does n't have a lot of choice ) as the rear tyre continues to lay down its tell-tale streak of hot rubber . |
| 22 | Where pipes turn corners with elbows or bends , do n't put them hard up against a wall . |
| 23 | With a little sigh , she slid her arms up and around his neck , her hands caressing his nape , allowing him to pull her hard up against the delightful seduction of his manhood . |
| 24 | Yes it does , the there is as you will see from the greenbelt plan , a apart from the issue of the fact that the the city boundary is in many areas er sort of hard up against further urban development so there 's no space between the city and the parts in adjacent districts , the greenbelt boundary , as currently proposed by the County Council , erm which as you 'll see from our evidence is not a boundary supported in its entirety by the City Council , means there is no further development land between the city boundary and the greenbelt . |
| 25 | Does that mean no more without development in the deposited greenbelt , as in the greenbelt as defined in the deposited greenbelt local plan , or does it mean no more unless it is hard up against that greenbelt ? |
| 26 | I tried to pull myself out but my foot was caught in some branches and the current squashed the canoe hard up against me , allowing me no movement . |
| 27 | Yet , even here , there is a puzzle , a strange , unplaceable something which does n't quite fit with that account of the gradual driving out of the reader and the suggestion of a steady shift towards the rare and the difficult , for I would guess that anyone not put off in advance by suspicion or hearsay , anyone that is who has got as far as dipping into Ulysses , say , will have come hard up against things that are startlingly , even discomfortingly , recognisable . |
| 28 | So you got ta weigh that up against er , doing two plans , which you 're paying the true cost of the benefits you would get . |
| 29 | Luton were 1–0 up against Everton in an FA Cup semi-final ; Sheedy equalized with four minutes left , and Mountfield scored the winner in extra time . |
| 30 | No but everybody were all all up against him you see . |