Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bungy jumping was filmed on video ; Ned went first and you can see him dangling upside down against a cliff , shouting ‘ hi mum ! ’ ; |
| 2 | and further , and this is not meant to be a joke , in my own experience , if they get time to think quietly and realistically , I believe a whole lot of decent Conservatives who used to think pragmatically , organically and with respect for local communities , would emerge to contribute to a coalition for the future over against the ideological block that seems to think we use people to make money , instead of making money to serve people and their communities . |
| 3 | Secondly , the zone of tension between the Soviet Union and the West allowed national liberation movements to play one side off against the other : on the one hand , fear of ‘ communism ’ induced some colonial powers to make political concessions , while on the other the Soviet Union often provided political support , arms and training to these movements . |
| 4 | As far as they were concerned , and like most Arab players in the narcotics game , the DEA was welcome to play one side off against another , so long as they could watch safely from the sidelines . |
| 5 | She held the sage green lace with its swirling skirt up against her . |
| 6 | He pulled his cowl up against the hot midday sun. ‘ shall we collect our horses ? ’ |
| 7 | But the Chancellor may be looking and hoping further ahead , to Friday 's US employment report and the possibility that a bit of a dollar rebound might haul the pound up against the mark . |
| 8 | Captain Simon Webster , who leads the side out against Portsmouth tomorrow , said : ‘ It 's up to us now . |
| 9 | However , currency speculators flooded Israel 's capital market with foreign currency worth US$200,000,000 , driving the US dollar down against the shekel and causing what was called the " devaluation that never was " . |
| 10 | JEWKES : But she sits cooling herself in the hall over against the staircase . |
| 11 | You need to present a united front and avoid taking sides or playing one child off against the other . |
| 12 | The child may gravitate to the parent that is easier to manipulate or try to play one parent off against the other . |
| 13 | Spirited she was , in those days , and she played one boy off against another , teasing , bold , louche , at times wildly immodest , shocking , provoking , drooping a ciggy from her wide wicked lip , dropping her blouse from bare shoulders , playing cards for forfeits , egging them on to experiment with Ouija , inventing naughty messages from the spirit world : how had she known these things , what models had she copied from films she had never seen , what spirit spoke through her , informing her impatient flesh ? |
| 14 | But there was a lot of debris up against it , and high up against it ! |
| 15 | I mean , could one do the Tesco superstore , pick up the bedding begonias and the kids from their respective nurseries , shell peas for the boss 's wife and remove the rotary drier from its rotospike so as not to offend the neighbours who 've stuck a Sky dish up against your patio view , whilst obsessed by lust ? |
| 16 | Motorola is stacking the machine up against DG , HP , NCR Dell and IBM systems , saying that the cost of a fully configured system works out at from 10–55% cheaper than competitors . |
| 17 | If a company pays a dividend during a ‘ dormant ’ period — ie when it is not within the charge to corporation tax — the Inland Revenue has been known to argue that the company will not be able to carry the ACT back against its prior tax liabilities . |
| 18 | When Barbarossa was driven from Rome in 1167 many of the cities of the Po valley joined together in the Lombard League under the aegis of Milan ; and they built a new fortress town over against imperial Turin , guarding the approach to Lombardy from the west , which they called Alessandria after the emperor 's great rival , Pope Alexander III . |
| 19 | Thus the unique authority of the Bible as the inspired Word of God came to be stressed with a quite new sharpness over against the established teaching . |
| 20 | I said that someone in Montefiore 's position should check his facts before sounding off , and advised him to campaign for more resources all round instead of trying to trade one disadvantaged group off against another . |
| 21 | CRYSTAL Palace unveil their new strike force today when Paul Williams and Chris Armstrong team up against Oldham at Selhurst Park . |
| 22 | She stands up and rubs her body up against me , stroking my still mostly limp cock . |
| 23 | She heard the shaken sigh that was torn from him as he brought her body up against the length of his , and the urge to go on fighting him faded as she grasped at fresh knowledge , accepting the fact that this was entirely mutual . |
| 24 | Because you 're secretly dying to press that delightful body up against me and find out how it feels ? ’ |
| 25 | As Distillery manager Billy Hamilton said before a clash with the Glens : ‘ I have yet to send my team out against a Glentoran side which did n't have eleven household names in it . ’ |
| 26 | On the face of it , Oi is performing a similar function to early punk — taking rock back to the basics , grafting a class accent on to the music , reviving the original rebel-delinquent cluster — the myth of Elvis-as-hub-cap-thief , a poor white loser up against the Law . |
| 27 | Therefore a man like Ramsey brought the argument about Christian unity up against the fundamental question of Catholicity versus Protestantism in a way which few others could . |
| 28 | Yeah I put the shield up against the wall because I knew then that the whole house had been cleared and er bent down and asked her if she was alright . |
| 29 | For there are other plates surrounding the Pacific Plate and they jostle and crash against each other , like ice floes at break-up time ; and as they jostle so they tide up against each other , pushing each other deeper , cracking and bending as they do so — only on a global scale , and with extraordinary consequences . |
| 30 | When insulating the loft floor , bring the ends of the blanket up against the sides of the cistern to give continuity . |