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 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Terrified ? ’ he laughed softly , leaning easily back against the door as he studied her pale face . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | And the nature of the business is such that , that you 're always up against a deadline . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Funny thing was they had no gardens and were built right up against the old City Rampart . |
| 16 | The local army base , a corrugated fortress with a spindly camera tower , is pressed right up against a primary school . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Little Billy shifted his position and placed one eye right up against the square hole that was no bigger than a postage stamp . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | At which point I turn and see that they have n't gone off at all , that I 'm sitting on the fourth step , the bottom step , right up against the barrier . |
| 23 | They have professional obligations to engage in that kind of scholarly work ; and , in that sense , be right up against the ‘ frontiers ’ . |
| 24 | Together they moved the step-ladder right up against the wall . |
| 25 | Everything has happened at the last minute , right up against our deadlines , but I am convinced that if we can promote the raffle through the summer magazine it stands every chance of being a great success . |
| 26 | These final examples of persistent facies brings us right up against the obvious explanation of a climatic control , and certainly strong arguments have been put forward on climatic grounds to explain some of the carbonate distributions . |
| 27 | Folly realised that in her eagerness not to miss the sights she had ended up nestling right up against Luke Hunter 's arm . |
| 28 | I 've been trying to get routine security stepped up but you come right up against the lords of the wallet : who 's going to pay for it ? |
| 29 | And there was a lot of space between the hut and the door and the wind took me and flung me right up against the tank and I went down to the ground and crawled on me hands and knees . |
| 30 | Other times it was dinner ; twice he took her dancing , the smoochy old-fashioned sort of dancing , not a disco , the sort where she was right up against him and his hands held her in a strong , commanding kind of way . |