Example sentences of "[adv prt] against [pron] " 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 | 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 | Kirov sighed deeply , appearing to give in against his will . |
| 4 | He moved in against his young brother , slowly this time , determined not to be made a fool of twice . |
| 5 | She was sitting turned in against his chest , and he rode with one arm around her , supporting her . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Glass maker Pilkington yesterday bit the bullet over the Latin variety yesterday , taking a £4.4million write down against its Argentinian assets . |
| 8 | Glass maker Pilkington yesterday bit the bullet over the Latin variety yesterday , taking a £4.4million write down against its Argentinian assets . |
| 9 | But I find myself coming down against its styling ( subjective , I know ) and awkward control layout ( still somewhat subjective , but two people here reckon they would trap their little fingers between the switch and volume control ) . |
| 10 | Her hair came loose at the back where she rolled her head against the cushions and the locks slipped down against her neck and got cried on to as well . |
| 11 | And as the dhāmis dance in the sunshine , the tiers of yellow garlands collide with that hair and bounce up and down against their white tunics . |
| 12 | Harrogate were 9–0 down against their first round who had not had a try scored against them since October . |
| 13 | Harrogate were 9–0 down against their first round who had not had a try scored against them since October . |
| 14 | He pulled her down against him , feeling her eagerness and longing as their lips met again . |
| 15 | You got to put your name down against something . |
| 16 | We saluted the Guard-Sergeant , slapping our palms down against our sides in regulation salutes , looking him in the eye and showing our leave passes . |
| 17 | If they 'd come down against you , eight-five times , one after another , just like that ? |
| 18 | He suspects that a black mark went firmly down against his name for turning down the job and when he was later asked to become personnel manager for that division of ICI he was left in no doubt that it was an offer he should not refuse . |
| 19 | Martin came from two games down against his fellow Australian Chris Robertson . |
| 20 | His once magnificent ruff of side-whiskers had been slicked down against his cheeks like wet fur and his ears had flattened apprehensively against his head . |
| 21 | He lifted her nerveless hand and held it palm down against his own naked chest . |
| 22 | He gasped and reached up to her , pulling her down against his chest , and then with a swift movement he turned her beneath him . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ Certainly , ’ and she rolled over against him , warm under the blankets . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | So , for instance , they saw the Roman Catholic Church as representing a ‘ Petrine ’ approach , over against which Protestantism had emerged as a ‘ Pauline ’ antithesis ; and both should ultimately be reconcilable in a ‘ Johannine ’ synthesis . |
| 27 | God 's Word is not simply a bare event of encounter with the Subject who stands over against us as Lord . |
| 28 | The knowledge with which it deals originates outside us ; the concept of nature standing over against us is not lightly to be abandoned . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |