Example sentences of "was [adv prt] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pound lost over two cents against the dollar at $1.52 and was down against the mark . |
| 2 | Next , surely , he must have thought he was up against a demon intent on destroying him for no reason at all . |
| 3 | North tried , for appearances ' sake , to present the rebels as an effective force , but he was up against higher-ranking military men who disagreed with him . |
| 4 | In spite of this galaxy of stars and performing dugs and the like , the Theatre with a capital ‘ T ’ was up against it , which does n't mean the wall of the Theatre next door . |
| 5 | The boys lined up in the corridor by the glass office and looked in to see who was up against the rod . |
| 6 | At least the battery chicken knew what it was up against . |
| 7 | She got up early to muck him out and groom him and exercise him , and she babysat nearly every evening to keep him in good oats ( not Uncle Knacker 's ) and shoes , and when she saw the riders she was up against in the collecting ring , with their adoring parents and their fat cheque-books , it just made her all the more determined to beat them , because determination was all she had . |
| 8 | It all seemed straightforward , but Mrs Lersky was up against a dilemma : |
| 9 | ‘ The kid has fantastic ability — on Saturday , he was up against Arthur Albiston , who was good enough for Manchester United and Scotland , and he tore him to pieces . |
| 10 | ‘ He was up against international defenders and they paid him the ultimate compliment of having to trip him up half of the time . |
| 11 | If only he knew what he was up against . |
| 12 | One of the finest drawings of this period shows only too clearly what he was up against . |
| 13 | There at least there was no talk of boyfriends ; there at least one or two people valued me ; and there , at the very least , I knew what I was up against . |
| 14 | He was up against Greg Norman and Seve Ballesteros in a play-off for the 1987 US Masters . |
| 15 | But I was up against a big , strong lad called Eddie Evans in the Canada game and that was very hard work . |
| 16 | Winterbottom played , even though he was up against his England mate , Mike Teague . |
| 17 | After all , many of those he was up against would have been miners , like his five brothers , like Ifor who could carry a bag of cement under each arm . |
| 18 | Tom picked up the two whiskeys and manoeuvred Patrick into the corner , pushing him into the seat first so that he was up against the wall . |
| 19 | You 'll then have some ideas of what I was up against . |
| 20 | It was not only the antagonism of male audiences that Hopkins was up against . |
| 21 | I was up against the wall and unable to obey my first instinct . |
| 22 | He could see Steen 's face in its pained repose , and felt certain that he was up against a case of murder . |
| 23 | It really is very difficult to convey , sir , the immense difficulties this woman was up against , trying to give her daughter the benefits of a modern education but bound herself by a family subscribing to a quite different system of ‘ mores ’ . |
| 24 | His body was up against hers , close and strong and totally in control . |
| 25 | The need to know what Barney was up against had become overwhelming . |
| 26 | So Freud has to explain this weakness of Wilson , in the face of erm , these much more dominant aggressive men he was up against in these very hard er hitting negotiations , about what to do about the world after , after World War One . |
| 27 | Whereabouts in relation to , w the bed was up against the wall was n't it ? |
| 28 | No it the the head of the bed was up against the far wall the as you look in the room on the right . |
| 29 | Retired businessman Roger Sullivan was up against a telephone bidder … |
| 30 | At the Glenburvie course in Scotland he was up against Europe 's top 200 young golfers . |