Example sentences of "[pron] goes [prep] the grain " in BNC.
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1 | Now clearly a teaching approach which goes against the grain of natural disposition will create needless difficulties for the learner , as I pointed out earlier in reference to translation and the focusing on form , but it does not follow that pedagogy must therefore simply accommodate that disposition . |
2 | However it goes against the grain to tell them anything . |
3 | Although it goes against the grain to say this , the exercise is valuable , if indeed it has the effect of providing an accurate version of a distinguished person 's world view . |
4 | Often , of course , the story is so important that they have to cover it , but it goes against the grain to be sweeping up behind another paper 's scoops . |
5 | If we 're going to live in these fields , we 'll have to get on terms with his lot sooner or later , and it goes against the grain to hang about and admit we dare n't visit them . " |
6 | However , it goes against the grain to have to say this , as it is our land after all . |
7 | The shares are worthless , and it goes against the grain to see them still quoted , written down as they are . " |
8 | ‘ Well , you shall have it as you wish , though it goes against the grain with me to see this fellow go free . |
9 | ‘ But it goes against the grain . ’ |
10 | It goes against the grain , does n't it ? |
11 | It goes against the grain terribly ! |
12 | That 's fine , I 'd had , on the subject of this boycotting timber , erm I know of two instances at least where Oxford City Council are still using tropical hardwoods , and I wonder , I mean , you know , obviously it goes against the grain of the signing of the tropical hardwood . |