Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other hand , also in a clenched fist position , is tucked in against the opposite side of the body , with the thumb and fingers facing upwards . |
| 2 | Jenny found herself dragged uncomfortably over the gear-stick and hand-brake , her left cheek was pressed in against her teeth by the pressure of an ardent but misdirected kiss and she felt a button on her cardigan give with a violence which boded ill for Marks and Sparks cowering beneath . |
| 3 | This view represents the actual foil pattern layout and is the side which will be placed down against the UV light source . |
| 4 | Their love affair was carried on against a background of nightly bombings , wartime tension , the advance of the German army on Paris . |
| 5 | Conversation was carried on against a background of ear-splitting barking . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've come through against all predictions , winning five away games in a row . |
| 7 | In the Fawlty Towers belt of Torquay , abandoned hotels have been boarded up against vandals . |
| 8 | What the bishops and the politicians had come up against in the Mother and Child controversy was that this paternalistic conceptualization was intrinsically at odds with the common understanding of democracy . |
| 9 | He had come up against sterner stuff , however , and an assistant chief constable was called in to mediate and eventually agreed to send it on after the author urged that the editor of the magazine be allowed to decide ( fieldnotes 1988 ) . |
| 10 | Although the Commissioners are committed not to be swayed by the national interests of their own countries , it is clear that Sir Leon Brittan , the Competition Commissioner , has come up against stiff opposition from his colleagues when he has investigated anti-competitive behaviour in some of their countries , most recently over his veto of the Franco-Italian takeover of De Havilland in October 1991 . |
| 11 | But no warning could check Arthur Conway 's fury , and with a lightning leap he managed to grip the young man 's throat , and so fiercely that he forced him backwards , only the next moment to have his arms snapped downwards , when he would have fallen on his back if he had n't come up against the coalhouse wall and , unfortunately , a shovel that was propped there . |
| 12 | In both Nicaragua and Mozambique , the governments have come up against the question of choosing which language or languages to teach in . |
| 13 | And Pearce said : ‘ Villa are the strongest team I have ever come up against in League football . |
| 14 | That 's where the fuel tanks are located and though it seemed likely that the partial tearing away of the wing had also ruptured the fuel lines and spilled the fuel , there was no way of being sure and no one , again as far as I know , has ever come up against the problem of what happens when an oxyacetylene jet meets a fuel tank under water . |
| 15 | I do n't think I 've ever come up against sexism , except from in the classroom when the teacher to , the economics teacher tries to wind us up by saying women would should be chained to the kitchen sink ! |
| 16 | Jonah Barrington , Britain 's squash-rackets hall-of-famer , has come up against the Pakistan sportsman 's competitive edge more than a few times down the years in that windowless torture-chamber which can be a squash court . |
| 17 | And erm anyway it was a wonderful place , wonderful relationship with the men and erm about the only odd thing about it I 've come up against a snag which I did n't think I 've had a ghost writer , I 've got publishers , and as I ca n't get er permission for all the photos that I want . |
| 18 | D Rae new machine working well , but he had come up against MS-Works limitations . |
| 19 | EFFORTS to improve atomic clocks have come up against an unexpected hurdle . |
| 20 | Of course , she had come up against death , or the prospect of it , many times in the course of her work , but somehow she had never acquired the sort of immunity against emotional involvement , that almost instinctive shutting off , as so many of her colleagues had seemed to do . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've come up against her sort before . |
| 22 | Alan Murdoch , personnel director of NCR , cited the problems which even this unusually enlightened engineering company had come up against in trying to tap this under-used management resource — an apparent lack of ambition that drives women into ‘ support ’ roles , the fact that child-bearing age co-incides with that age-span when the potential top manager is just getting up to speed , the lack of female engineering-oriented managers from which to select . |
| 23 | I wonder if they have come up against a rapacity of the of the rates . |
| 24 | Erm er this o this one is not one single job as it happens but it is the kind of thing that we have come up against before and I 've put them the things together in one so that we do n't identify people really under the circumstances . |
| 25 | We have come up against some prejudice in the dressage , but the nice thing is that at the end of the test sheets you often see the same comment from the judge — ‘ What a super pony ! ’ . ’ |
| 26 | Scooting down the side-aisle , she ducked past him and out of the shop , where she continued to run blindly until she was caught up against a solid chest . |
| 27 | ‘ The body probably caught up against it on its way downstream , ’ said Owen . |
| 28 | And King Bucar and his people thought that the Cid dared not come out against them , and they were the more encouraged , and began to think of making bastilles and engines wherewith to combat the city , for certes they weened that the Cid Ruydiez dared not come out against them , seeing that he tarried so long . |
| 29 | And King Bucar and his people thought that the Cid dared not come out against them , and they were the more encouraged , and began to think of making bastilles and engines wherewith to combat the city , for certes they weened that the Cid Ruydiez dared not come out against them , seeing that he tarried so long . |
| 30 | In mid July , at Ann Arbor , the ‘ revolutionary media ’ conference had come out against sexism in the underground press . |