Example sentences of "[vb pp] back against " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( ACT carried back against pre-17 March 1987 periods can only be offset against a company 's income — ie excluding capital gains . ) |
| 2 | Frankenstein had slumped back against a tree-trunk for support , his head lolling back as if he were about to collapse in a faint . |
| 3 | She said nothing , but only arched back against the soft leather , lost in the tantalising , agonising pleasure of his hands — a pleasure that lit a fire deep inside her , but did nothing to quench it . |
| 4 | The emergence of the superego vastly extended this trend because it represented a characteristically human — or , we might say , neurotic — tendency : namely , an ability to redirect a drive to the extent that it is turned back against the ego itself ( i.e. , hate of the father becomes hate of oneself for hating him ) . |
| 5 | Freud 's finding was that guilt is , starts off as an aggressive drive in the id that could go anywhere , preferably towards other people , but the superego uses some of this aggression and destructive energy arising in the id and then turns it back against the ego , and uses it to punish the ego , so the aggression , instead of going into someone else or into the outside world , is turned back against the self and to that extent is self-destructive . |
| 6 | The Colonel was flung back against the wall where he stood , for a moment , a puzzled expression on his face . |
| 7 | The force of the casual blow was such that Yet was flung back against a bookcase . |
| 8 | She was pressed back against the seat as Fergus accelerated again . |
| 9 | Isabel stood pressed back against the wooden panels , trying to listen for the sound of breathing over the drumming of her heart . |
| 10 | Tiled surrounds built in the 1930s are set back against the brickwork , and the plaster made good around them . |
| 11 | The oval dining table stood before the rear window , but it held in the middle a model of the house on a low plinth as if it were a museum exhibit , and the eight high-backed dining chairs had been set back against the walls . |
| 12 | Once again Congress had struck back against an overweening executive branch . |
| 13 | This treatment was also applied to the smaller door , reached via a short flight of external stone steps that previously served the upper-level hay-loft , so that the new infilling panel of clear double-glazing , set well back from the external face of the wall , helps to light a sitting room while a ‘ door ’ , which can be swung like a shutter to seal this opening , is fixed back against the face of the adjoining flintwork . |
| 14 | Wooden shutters of washed-out blue and green were folded back against the walls to show thick , beautifully patterned lace at the windows . |
| 15 | And these because you always wanted to be able to adapt rooms for different purposes and this folded back against the wall . |
| 16 | The crimson rope-lights whipped forward effortlessly and the boy who had glared angrily at the Robemaker was forced back against the nearest furnace . |
| 17 | ‘ If you remember the scene , a Voord is fighting with Ian when he gets thrown back against a wall . |
| 18 | She was flicked back against him , clamped closer with one powerful arm , and as he looked down at her , hard and intent , he made brief , rhythmic movements , flexing chest and thigh muscles to make her slide down his body , her heart hammering … he was practically making love to her on the dance-floor . |
| 19 | In addition , some diplomats based in Switzerland predict riots and worse in the camps of Hong Kong if more Vietnamese are sent back against their will . |
| 20 | ‘ These were people who were being sent back against their will to a country they had sought to leave and it is inevitable that they should not be joyful , but there was no resistance . ’ |