Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so , at this particular moment , when Laz was finding himself somewhat up against it , Rex was indulging in a little foot fellatio and thinking instep . |
| 2 | However , this pastoral mission is not only up against hardened heathens , but it also considers that some ought not even to be read the lesson . |
| 3 | He 's not only up against the ghost of Simon Ellis , he 's paying this other man 's bill . |
| 4 | The Maternity Hospital gynaecologist was a young doctor in his twenties and his work had brought him constantly up against this problem . |
| 5 | The book says : Jean Marsh — pale peach , not very good in beds , better up against a wall . |
| 6 | As George Male points out : ‘ It was done to foil any over-confidence we may have had for the next game , for he knew the opposition would go all out against us after our big win . |
| 7 | With Okapi '86 we were already up against hardware constraints , as much due to disk access times as to CPU speed . |
| 8 | As my comrade from Scotland says John Prescott has done a good job here , but I have to say it 's not up against very much . |
| 9 | In science , especially the hard sciences , the culprits are normally up against a robust professional consensus that defines excellence , originality , and the nature of evidence . |
| 10 | The outstanding performance of the tour was R Yeabsley 's 201 not out against Hong Kong Schools — it was the first double hundred by a Haberdashers ' schoolboy . |
| 11 | In one-day internationals he is the only bowler to have taken over 200 wickets , and his astonishing 175 not out against Zimbabwe in the 1983 World Cup has been exceeded only twice — both times by Viv Richards — in limited-overs internationals . |
| 12 | The following season , he carried his bat for a brilliant 215 not out against Lancashire at Old Trafford . |
| 13 | He scored 1435 runs in his career , with five centuries , the highest 201 not out against Oxford University in 1989 . |
| 14 | Glamorgan opener Steve James : career-best 152 not out against Lancashire |
| 15 | Middlesbrough-born Glendenen went on to score the first century , having become only the second Durham player to make a double-century when he hit 200 not out against Victoria last September in a three-day match unluckily denied first-class status . |
| 16 | Essex left-hander Nick Knight continued his consistent run with 81 not out against Cumberland in the NatWest |
| 17 | David Graveney asked the hosts to bat and Nigel Hough , who hit 200 not out against Durham last week , immediately began to plunder the bowling . |
| 18 | ‘ Terrified ? ’ he laughed softly , leaning easily back against the door as he studied her pale face . |
| 19 | But the two strikers looked unable to make an impact early on against the big Harefield back four , and it was Harefield who appeared most dangerous in the opening period , putting Town keeper , Mickey Cummings under a lot of pressure . |
| 20 | ‘ But at England level you are always up against the best from another country and unless you get the basics right you are in trouble . |
| 21 | And the nature of the business is such that , that you 're always up against a deadline . |
| 22 | I do n't want to go near them , so I walk right up against the shops , sort of leaning right against the windows so they wo n't get me . |
| 23 | Tug lay very still and concentrated on breathing and the voice went on , so softly that it was only just possible to hear it , even though Doyle 's face was right up against his ear . |
| 24 | Funny thing was they had no gardens and were built right up against the old City Rampart . |
| 25 | The local army base , a corrugated fortress with a spindly camera tower , is pressed right up against a primary school . |
| 26 | Eubank has been at his best when right up against it and facing defeat , especially in the battle with Nigel Benn that first gave him the world middleweight title and then when he climbed off the floor in the second , tragic contest with Michael Watson . |
| 27 | Little Billy shifted his position and placed one eye right up against the square hole that was no bigger than a postage stamp . |
| 28 | Now they are going to appeal , but in the meanwhile the work is going on and the bulldozers are ready and waiting on the west side of the excavations , right up against the seventeenth-century cellars which were found intact , still full of bottles and vessels . |
| 29 | And what they do , I 'm going to try and show you on this doll in a minute , the hips are abducted which means they 're brought right up against the chest and then they 're pulled round and they 're rotated in the socket and you feel and listen for a click |
| 30 | There were many sittings at Freud 's studio in Delamere Terrace , during which the artist , for the purposes of intimate study , sat almost right up against his subject . |