Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] against " in BNC.
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| 31 | But right-wing delegations , such as the AEU engineering union , came down against any ‘ segregated ’ affiliate . |
| 32 | She found that , in the case before her , the balance came down against ordering the return of the children to Australia . |
| 33 | It came down against the crash barrier . |
| 34 | And if the clash includes huge or small prints in jewel colours , played off against vividly checked tweeds , so much the better . |
| 35 | Ellwood yanked , and the back of her skull slammed up against the bedhead . |
| 36 | He hunched up against the back of the car . |
| 37 | You know you 're in for a rough ride just by gawping at their photos for this package which show Knight hunched up against some slum wall and Blake glowering in true Exorcist 2 style from within a storm of locusts . |
| 38 | Stewart was suddenly violent , he backed away from Menzies , came up against the door , turned , and was gone . |
| 39 | But when she came up against Australia 's Michelle Jaggard , a more experienced player but by no means a world-beater , she struggled even to get a game . |
| 40 | Frontier youth workers came up against the destructive , deceptive nature of evil in many of its present forms . |
| 41 | Even more important , perhaps , were the discussions about the notion of a women 's aesthetic : again and again , the attempt to articulate the new and unspoken came up against the absence of an appropriate language . |
| 42 | She came up against the unsolved riddle with a horrible jerk . |
| 43 | Two years later the regent came up against more visible opposition . |
| 44 | ONCE-RACED MILIYEL * , who came up against the 1,000 Guineas ante-post favourite Musicale when both made their debut at Lingfield last season , may open her account in the Geoffrey Barling Maiden Fillies ' Stakes ( 2.00 ) at Newmarket today . |
| 45 | Of course , once we got into government a great many of our ambitions and aims and the ideas we 'd seized hold of from talking to the Americans , people like Robert McNamara for instance , of the American Department of Defense , came up against the realities of Whitehall . |
| 46 | In late 1988 , Fairclough came up against some of the worst tunnelling conditions its engineers had ever encountered , in sandy ground beneath Tooting Bec Common , south London . |
| 47 | Glennon was a similar height and build to Edwards and in 1987 had to face a similar height problem when he came up against England 's Dave Cusani . |
| 48 | Donald was in full cry but he came up against a rejuvenated Kapil Dev . |
| 49 | Hastening round the keep they came up against unexpected obstruction . |
| 50 | He repeated his question , and came up against the same smiling ignorance . |
| 51 | ‘ You came up against outdoor players , many of them farmers who would simply barrel you backwards in the tight and , if they got to you , in the loose . ’ |
| 52 | Separatism , despite any protestations to the contrary , came up against the age old problem of how to transpose the idea onto the material world . |
| 53 | I trained hard all last winter and in one race I came up against a black who I knew had n't prepared properly . |
| 54 | We came up against official incompetence as soon as we arrived in Spain . |
| 55 | He had been a detective since he was twenty-five and , although unorthodox in his methods , had waged a successful war against the criminals he came up against . |
| 56 | There were more unrelated Smiths playing against each other in the Triangular Tournament of 1912 , when Tiger of England came up against Dave of Australia . |
| 57 | Relying upon authority rather than cultivating widespread support , he soon came up against resistance from those who detected a tampering with the basic fabric of Orthodoxy . |
| 58 | But in the Japanese Empire she at last came up against an eastern power developing at a rate comparable to her own , and one capable of offering effective resistance . |
| 59 | During his brave and daring life he came up against many dangers , none so well remembered and retold as the story of how he was saved from death at the hands of the Red Indians by Pocohontas , daughter of Chief Powhattan . |
| 60 | He 's being ironic ; in the Navy he came up against arbitrary discipline , the officer class and the English . |