Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that seems to me to go against having a strategic policy but what we 're talking about is the interface at a local level between development and and protecting the countryside and that 's quite rightly where the decisions should be made . |
| 2 | I put that as an amendment , not reiterating the entire Labour budget , but I asked the Liberal Democrats , who purport to want to erm provide that sort of service to vulnerable people could they not accept that extra half a million pounds as an amendment , and two out of the group abstained , the rest of them voted against that as an amendment . |
| 3 | In this way , the hypnotist is not making me attack against my will , he is conjuring up a set of circumstances in which to attack seems the lesser of two evil courses . |
| 4 | Appalled , I fought against him , pressing myself back , making my body leaden . |
| 5 | I fought against it , but when you went away , and stayed away , despite all my letters and calls , I knew that there was never going to be any chance for me . ’ |
| 6 | When I fought against it , the resulting unpleasantness always upset my father . |
| 7 | First , though , whose kitchen table am I propped against with such enervating thoughts ? |
| 8 | The little sounds I make against your skin |
| 9 | He said : ‘ I want to score two goals in the next game with Roma , including one like the one I got against Pescara . ’ |
| 10 | I shouted against the wall of white noise to three deaf backs . |
| 11 | It 's an old injury which I sustained against Widnes earlier in the season . ’ |
| 12 | And I came against the wall . |
| 13 | I put back so and then I put against the fence . |
| 14 | I played against the English nine times and they always had a very strong scrum . |
| 15 | I played against Italy recently and I 'm used to facing quality strikers . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I played against them twice out there in 1984 and we got two hammerings . |
| 17 | ‘ I was happier with the way I played against Sheffield United . |
| 18 | I was 5′ 10½&in in height in bare feet and weighed soaking wet no more than 12½ stone and since I played in the park , usually at open side wing forward , and since I played against genuinely big men , it therefore followed I had to be galvanically quick . |
| 19 | Aye , well I played against men , but , but I mean it 's not the same . |
| 20 | However I played against that Leeds team , and believe me you had to wind the tape right up to your neck when you were facing them . |
| 21 | I played against Wayne Biggins , who had a tremendous game , so I know how much I 've got to learn to compete at the highest level . |
| 22 | ‘ The first time I felt I needed a change this season was when I played against Latvia for the Republic of Ireland . |
| 23 | I played , I played against erm |
| 24 | He admits : ‘ It is three years since I 've scored for England and I 'm well aware that the two I scored against Czechoslovakia remain my only goals . |
| 25 | I raced against Cameron Sharp a number of times and beat him , so it was galling to find a few weeks later that he was racing Carl Lewis on the Continent . |
| 26 | My mum and dad had been through a very bad divorce , so I suppose she was frightened of being too strict and pushing me away , in case I turned against her . |
| 27 | I stand against the railings and remain in one place to avoid the crap , and look upwards . |
| 28 | This is an interesting thing , you and I vote against it , we are obviously dead against , |
| 29 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 30 | I liked Webern , Berg and Schoenberg , all the stuff that sounded weird and that later I rebelled against . |