Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the next intersection he drew in against the left-hand wall , peering around the corner into the corridor to his left . |
| 2 | He moved in against his young brother , slowly this time , determined not to be made a fool of twice . |
| 3 | Gruesome flogging cartoons and fantasies of violent reprisal dominated the response , and when the magazine crashed down against the garotting packs and the sentimentalists ( and it was not always clear who was supposed to be the real villain ) both humour and artistic quality were sometimes surrendered as hostages to the gout . |
| 4 | Furthermore , it is commonly argued that the courts can fail to place a proper actuarial value on potential pension benefits and that ( typically in pursuit of a ‘ clean break ’ ) a divorcing wife 's loss of potential benefits can be ‘ traded off ’ or glossed over against her need for a home . |
| 5 | charged off against each other 's . |
| 6 | It is a real moral aberration that leaves at liberty those who violated human dignity and those who rose up against the constitutional order . ’ |
| 7 | And when they were in the field , Cain rose up against his brother Abel , and killed him . |
| 8 | In February of 1982 , the Sunni fundamentalists of Hama rose up against the Alawite regime . |
| 9 | Western attention was mostly directed towards the Kurds , who rose up against him at the same time , but the greater threat to Saddam and the heavier loss of life was Shiite , Not Kurdish . |
| 10 | That is why the people of Scotland rose up against the rating system . |
| 11 | There came a day , said Freud , the sons in frustration , rose up against the primal father , murdered him , ate him , in a grisly act of cannibalism , raped the mothers and sisters , and then having gratified the positive side of , of the negative side of their ambivalence , about the primal father , their hate for him , their desire to supplant him , and so on , were left with the positive side unsatisfied . |
| 12 | It was outside rather than inside the Cortes that a conservative opposition built up against the liberals and by 1811 the unity of patriotic reformism was broken . |
| 13 | And with a mass of highly critical evidence built up against him , chief executive Venables faces a mammoth task in trying to persuade the court he should be allowed to stay on the board despite his sacking on May 14 . |
| 14 | The Germans , panting for breath , sank back against the ice . |
| 15 | The pound , which has enjoyed a decent run so far this week , was again under pressure and sank back against the mark and the dollar . |
| 16 | Lisa sank back against the sofa , despair rushing through her . |
| 17 | Sighing , she ignored pride 's dictates and sank back against the pillows . |
| 18 | Marguerite left after this little show of determination and Jenna sank back against the pillows , realising that the thought of Alain coming back was a little worrying . |
| 19 | Relieved , she sank back against the pillows , brushed a shaky hand over her eyes . |
| 20 | As she sank back against the cushions a sleek black cat appeared from nowhere and began to wind itself around her ankles . |
| 21 | She sank back against the pillows and threw her arm across her eyes . |
| 22 | Dazed , he staggered back against the console and heard his shotgun clattering to the floor as it slipped from his nerveless fingers . |
| 23 | Instinctively she drew back against the damp cellar wall , willing herself to fuse into the crumbling , whitewashed brickwork . |
| 24 | He struck me hard across the mouth so that my head cracked back against the bathroom wall . |
| 25 | His scream echoed madly inside the tunnel as he fell was slammed against the brickwork then bounced back against the speeding train , his body pulped by the impact . |
| 26 | She moved back against the pillow and drew me on top of her . |
| 27 | Maisie pushed past him , and , with a little sigh , the older man moved back against the wall . |
| 28 | He sagged back against the wall , and held out his hand . |
| 29 | The door burst inward and crashed back against the wall . |
| 30 | You saw that when he came on against Scotland . |