Example sentences of "[conj] [adv prt] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | He began to speak out loud over the sound of the copious running water ; he congratulated himself for not crying in public , he congratulated himself for not getting hurt , for not letting himself be assaulted on the way home , for not letting anyone corner him or get him down on the floor or up against a wall but for keeping walking instead . |
| 2 | ‘ What the hell did you think — that I was going to take you here on the ground — or up against some tree ? |
| 3 | or up against the practice you see . |
| 4 | And as the dhāmis dance in the sunshine , the tiers of yellow garlands collide with that hair and bounce up and down against their white tunics . |
| 5 | Every sound , every movement , told her what he was doing … the shoes placed neatly side by side , the braces flicked down over his shoulders , the trousers carefully folded and laid across the back of the wicker chair , his footsteps coming to her over the creaking floorboards ; every sound , every movement … he was touching her now , warm , tickling , smooth , his naked body moving up and down against her , his voice in her ear , soft and loving , fingers probing , his mouth on hers ; the gasp of excitement when he entered her , jabbing , hard , growing excited . |
| 6 | The pound is up at one point seven nine dollars , and down against the Deutchmark two point eight four marks . |
| 7 | She mutinied on and off against him all that morning , and for most of the afternoon . |
| 8 | You still hear about it ; the women fighting like cats to stay together , the couples making love in the park and up against walls ; the uniform boys in the arms of the Soho queens , the Americans in Piccadilly . |
| 9 | I 'm not sure whether Seve did , and I saw Watson in trouble , having gone through the green and up against the wall . |
| 10 | He led me through to the next room , and up against the wall there lay a stack of some ten to fifteen canvases . |
| 11 | If your fabric is likely to fray , it is advisable to machine a row of zig-zag stitches inside the marked side lines and up against them . |
| 12 | The pound ended the day at one point eight eight nine five dollars and up against the deutschmark , at two deutschmarks point nine three O nine . |
| 13 | We slept well in our cabin rocked by the gentle movement of the boat as she drifted in and out against her moorings . |
| 14 | At the beginning of his translation , Mannyng appeals to the reader : His vivid description of the Crucifixion both stresses Christ 's willingness — he climbs the ladder to mount the cross , then turns at the top , laying himself vulnerable and open as he stretches out his arms and back against it — and rams home the shock of pain as the nails are driven in . |
| 15 | The FT-SE 100 closed down 11.6 at 2759.4 , while sterling closed unchanged against the dollar at $1.56 , but up against the mark at DM2.48 . |
| 16 | I am not offering excuses , but up against such class it was unfortunate that we could not field a side at full strength . |
| 17 | The pound is down against the dollar at ( $1.75 ) one dollar , seventy five , but up against the mark at ( 2.88 ) two marks eighty eight . |
| 18 | For this to happen , aggressive drives , directed away from the father on to others in the manner which we have just described , would have had to become internalized also and turned , not against some other , but back against the |
| 19 | The world itself is presented as a kind of self-projection of Geist , in which it brings itself into being as Nature , and so as over against itself ( thesis and antithesis ) . |
| 20 | But these niggles pale when up against the infuriating fact that Drop Nineteens are n't given real room to perform , their potential smothered by a relentless stream of diving dickwits , sloshed on half a pint of coke . |