Example sentences of "[adv prt] against [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 'll get stuck in against him and we all know if the chips are down when the seamers are on , Robin is the one . |
| 2 | Every sound , every movement , told her what he was doing … the shoes placed neatly side by side , the braces flicked down over his shoulders , the trousers carefully folded and laid across the back of the wicker chair , his footsteps coming to her over the creaking floorboards ; every sound , every movement … he was touching her now , warm , tickling , smooth , his naked body moving up and down against her , his voice in her ear , soft and loving , fingers probing , his mouth on hers ; the gasp of excitement when he entered her , jabbing , hard , growing excited . |
| 3 | He pulled her down against him , feeling her eagerness and longing as their lips met again . |
| 4 | If they 'd come down against you , eight-five times , one after another , just like that ? |
| 5 | Not until he had regained his composure did he crawl over to the side of the car and slump down against it , wiping the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand . |
| 6 | ‘ Certainly , ’ and she rolled over against him , warm under the blankets . |
| 7 | God 's Word is not simply a bare event of encounter with the Subject who stands over against us as Lord . |
| 8 | The knowledge with which it deals originates outside us ; the concept of nature standing over against us is not lightly to be abandoned . |
| 9 | A realist approach lays stress on the belief that the world has an existence independent of any observer ; that it stands over against us as an entity in its own right . |
| 10 | Another is the dialectic , a pattern of movement which proceeds from a starting-point ( the thesis ) to another which stands over against it in opposition or contradiction ( the antithesis ) , and then moves on to a third stage in which the two are reconciled and reintegrated on a higher level ( the synthesis ) . |
| 11 | The most imperative need of all when it comes to Lord 's where leg spinners often make their presence felt , is for England to have at least two left handers and to see how Warne gets on against them . |
| 12 | She mutinied on and off against him all that morning , and for most of the afternoon . |
| 13 | What is it that so movingly draws so many people — his innocent , childlike way , the stony visual he projects , set off against his highly visible symptoms ? |
| 14 | The attendance allowance , being payable as of right , must be declared as income for tax purposes , but any expenses wholly and necessarily incurred in the performance of the duty ( and not otherwise reimbursed ) may be set off against it . |
| 15 | They are not alternatives to be balanced off against it . |
| 16 | Well I think expenses I 'd should imagine that 's written off against it . |
| 17 | His body was up against hers , close and strong and totally in control . |
| 18 | During a jazzy quartet for the women , the company 's shambling clown is dangerously over-excited by one dancer 's leggy prowess , attempting to nuzzle up against her or to initiate a wildly mismatched pas de deux . |
| 19 | A girl in my class , just because one coloured girl does n't like her everybody gangs up against her . |
| 20 | Ten lined up against her , including the first three in the previous year 's race — Forgive ‘ N Forget , Righthand Man and Earls Brig. |
| 21 | I was always running up against her and being told that I had a shoelace undone , or my buttons needed polishing , or my hair was touching my collar , Airwoman ! |
| 22 | She had learned when she had held the first costume up against her , that her mother had been small , hardly , it seemed , an inch or two taller than Ellie was now . |
| 23 | But on this later occasion she did not escape , and the reception order was drawn up against her . |
| 24 | She held the sage green lace with its swirling skirt up against her . |
| 25 | Shivering a little in the silky bra and pants set that was all she was wearing , Folly held her only ‘ good ’ dress up against her to judge the effect . |
| 26 | Look , ’ he said , holding up against her a dress encrusted with embroidery . |
| 27 | ‘ You could have fooled me ! ’ she muttered , and took a hefty swig of her drink as his face once more closed up against her . |
| 28 | ‘ But not me ? ’ she asked dubiously as she held it up against her . |
| 29 | He nestled up against her and whispered sympathetically , ‘ He 's evil , is n't he ? |
| 30 | She laughed rather shrilly , grabbed his hands and tried to pull him up against her . |