Example sentences of "[adv prt] against they " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They forfeit the right to stand up against them . |
| 3 | Yet half the names could not leave even if they wanted to : they are locked into the 58 ( out of a total of 401 ) Lloyd 's syndicates that have been unable to close one or more of their past annual accounts , so unquantifiable are the liabilities stacking up against them . |
| 4 | In 1871 the Prussians feared that their Poles might rise up against them — partly as a late reaction to the failed anti-Russian uprising of 1863 , partly in protest at the incorporation of the Grand Duchy of Warsaw into the German Reich ; they deprived the Poles of the right to print their own magazines , newspapers and almanacs , and shortly afterwards banned the publication and circulation of Polish poetry . |
| 5 | Make a commitment never to bring this up against them again . |
| 6 | Taylor led off eight Hurricanes in V7671 , climbing to 28,000 feet , when many Ju87s were seen below at about 10,000 feet just as the A.A. barrage opened up against them . |
| 7 | Straining his eyes , he could just make out the two boxes which were stacked in the far corner of the room and a picture frame which was propped up against them . |
| 8 | Children 's fantasies are as real to them as anything else ; but not many get thrown up against them so hard . ’ |
| 9 | If your fabric is likely to fray , it is advisable to machine a row of zig-zag stitches inside the marked side lines and up against them . |
| 10 | Then a series of keratophyres were extruded on top of the spilites and weathered into rounded hills with detrital pyritous sand banked up against them . |
| 11 | Or not been let run up against them ) , and then the " ungrammaticality " of *John was seen leave is explained by the absence of to . |
| 12 | you 've been stuck up against them . |
| 13 | There 's not many you can put up against them , but there 's two or three , like Arsenal , who you can make a case for . ’ |
| 14 | Oh up against them . |
| 15 | In an entry for October 1925 he states his determination to find out their full extent , and to speak out against them ( Travels , 60 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They were at a loss to know what to do with this sullen rebel who kept bursting out against them so unjustly . |
| 19 | If you just try to defend and hold out against them , it wears you down . |
| 20 | By summons , issued on 15 March 1991 , the third , fourth and fifth defendants asked , first , for an order that the action be struck out against them on the ground that it disclosed no reasonable cause of action or , alternatively , that paragraphs 11 and 13 of the prayer be struck out . |
| 21 | The same was true of Eliot but he was luckier in one way : he could give a little here and hold out against them there . |
| 22 | Two thirds of the Scottish population have warrants out against them . |
| 23 | There was not a weakness to be seen and no-one at the game would back against them ending a 26-year wait for the Championship . |