Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would you like to see them in against the outside candidates if we look at this |
| 2 | Periodically I went down into the warmth below , to write up my notes and check them over against the ship 's design plans , which Nils had produced for me before going off with Iain to talk to the Navy Yard people . |
| 3 | I tried to marry this judgment with the memory of the sturdy young woman I 'd seen joking in the glade ; who had come breezily into The Pightle telling me to water the plants and daring me to a duel of wits with Edward ; who had seemed so certain of me over against his cautious vacillation. fragile was not the first word that would have occurred to me , unless I had overlooked something vital — something which , I remembered , Bob had noted . |
| 4 | It is mildly blasphemous , too , to be sent into this breathing world with trillions and trillions of brain-cells , all anxious to fire and to titillate , and to shutter them off against the more vigorous half of human thought . |
| 5 | Mr Tate advises prospective purchasers to produce a written list of requirements , and to check them off against the package one by one . |
| 6 | Bakufu control over the country was never absolute , but rested on the administration 's ability to hold in check the ambitions of various provincial lords and play them off against each other . |
| 7 | If you turned it into a business , you could keep six maids and gardeners if you wanted and write them off against the pigs . |
| 8 | Between demonstrates how a multiplicity of different discursive systems intertwine to form the substrata of an individual mind which plays them off against each other , combines them and uses them to generate the repertory of stories that determine how she ‘ reads ’ the world in which she lives . |
| 9 | That war is still going on , Jamie is still wasting his life on a childhood hatred and Edward Swift is still playing them off against each other from beyond the grave . ’ |
| 10 | Do you have to ti , do you tick them off against your cheque book stubs ? |
| 11 | She spoke brusquely to you and pushed you back against the door of Woolworth 's . ’ |
| 12 | From the outset , I wanted to help you out against Novotný , and immediately in January I asked you : Are his people threatening you ? |
| 13 | So I placed one of them up against the fender , to see what would happen . |
| 14 | John and his friend then began to fight back and were gaining the upper hand when the police intervened slamming them up against a wall with their arms pinned behind their backs . |
| 15 | She handed two packets and a wafer to the boy , who had finished wiping the mattresses down and had leant them up against the wall to dry . |
| 16 | ‘ While there is no crock of gold for GM schools , at least one is starting to see more clearly the financial implications and able to weigh them up against money coming into the school . ’ |
| 17 | The maintenance of legal definitions of public order , based on a principle of ‘ free circulation ’ , inevitably brings them up against the annexation of the street by male youth culture . |
| 18 | Lyn took one of the gravel paths into the grounds of the general hospital , walking towards the sun that dazzled her eyes so that she screwed them up against it . |
| 19 | Whichever way the conversation turned , Theodora reflected , it seemed Miss Dersingham was determined to bring them up against topics which could not be elaborated on . |
| 20 | Put them up against that wall there . |
| 21 | It brought me up against the fact that I 'd like him to be better off so I could have more options . |
| 22 | He knocked my gun from my hand then pushed me up against the wall , pressing his own gun into my stomach . |
| 23 | The second man pushed me back against the wall . |
| 24 | Andy yelled , throwing the keys down and grabbing me by the collar and slamming me back against the side of the Landie . |
| 25 | He drove me back against the wall , gave me a deep cut in the arm , and began to smile . |
| 26 | ‘ Surely , then , Kenneth , this great grudge of theirs will bring them out against the enlistment ? ’ |
| 27 | He pulled her down against him , feeling her eagerness and longing as their lips met again . |
| 28 | He would have joined Melissa on the great bed , pressing her down against the coverlet and ravishing her long white neck with passionate kisses . |
| 29 | He gasped and reached up to her , pulling her down against his chest , and then with a swift movement he turned her beneath him . |
| 30 | Rab pushed her over against the wall in the wall-recessed bed . |