Example sentences of "down against the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would move up or ( at the moment ) down against the mark . |
| 2 | The men wore rubber ponchos and had exchanged their black berets for jungle hats pulled well down against the rain so that he was unable to discern whether Miguelito was amongst their number . |
| 3 | He pumped a shot into the breech and laid the gun on the portside cockpit settee , covering it with his shirt weighted down against the wind with the coiled stern line . |
| 4 | Often , when I was cycling through the camp after coming off duty , I would spy Thursby in the distance beavering along , head down against the gale , full of eagerness to get back on the job and spot any mistakes we had made during his absence . |
| 5 | They sat down against the summerhouse wall and talked of each others activities over the last nine years . |
| 6 | This view represents the actual foil pattern layout and is the side which will be placed down against the UV light source . |
| 7 | The pound lost over two cents against the dollar at $1.52 and was down against the mark . |
| 8 | Their front row trio , Johann Styger , Willie Hills and Keith Andrews , admitted that they had prepared on the basis that they would scrum down against the most successful England unit in history . |
| 9 | The pound slipped against the German mark and closed nearly six cents down against the US dollar . |
| 10 | Sharpe reloaded the rifle , this time ramming the bullet hard down against the charge , then released the horse . |
| 11 | Gruesome flogging cartoons and fantasies of violent reprisal dominated the response , and when the magazine crashed down against the garotting packs and the sentimentalists ( and it was not always clear who was supposed to be the real villain ) both humour and artistic quality were sometimes surrendered as hostages to the gout . |
| 12 | She put her case and her violin down against the wall . |
| 13 | Large plants and containers make this impractical , and it is then a case of loosening the soil-ball at the sides with a stick pushed down against the inside wall of the container . |
| 14 | He could see the upturned hulls of a few boats drawn up onto the shore , mostly of fibreglass but some of varnished timber , all of them de-rigged and tied down against the weather . |
| 15 | A big old one , down against the wall in the far corner . |
| 16 | When Dulé and his companions regained the beach , they were so stunned and wearied by the water and the flames , the howling and frantic clangour of their rout , that they dragged themselves and their boat to the first cover they could find , and lay face down against the earth ; they could sense it trembling as if it were an animal alive beneath them . |
| 17 | They trooped inside and followed Phrynius down a shabby hall , then through another door to a larger room which had the shutters pulled down against the sun and which smelled slightly of ammonia and sulphur . |
| 18 | He would have joined Melissa on the great bed , pressing her down against the coverlet and ravishing her long white neck with passionate kisses . |
| 19 | The man had approached him on the street while he was walking home , head down against the wind . |
| 20 | However , currency speculators flooded Israel 's capital market with foreign currency worth US$200,000,000 , driving the US dollar down against the shekel and causing what was called the " devaluation that never was " . |
| 21 | On the following day , however , a presidential commission investigating the role of the security forces during the November 1989 revolution published findings implicating Vacek , at that time Army Chief of Staff and First Deputy Defence Minister , in preparations by the Army high command to clamp down against the demonstrations which ultimately had overthrown the communist regime . |
| 22 | It is , Chairman , that actually they are down against the erm , Mill Stream , the three storeys site , some of them about three storeys high . |
| 23 | The pound is up at one point seven nine dollars , and down against the Deutchmark two point eight four marks . |
| 24 | The pound is down against the dollar at ( $1.75 ) one dollar , seventy five , but up against the mark at ( 2.88 ) two marks eighty eight . |
| 25 | The pound is down against the dollar and the Deutsch Mark at one dollar , seventy-three and at two marks , eighty-eight . |
| 26 | It came down against the crash barrier . |
| 27 | The Bundesbank 's refusal to cut German interest rates pushed the pound to a new low of two marks , forty-three and it 's also down against the dollar at one , seventy-one . |
| 28 | Let's have a word Colin shall we about er Saturday 's display , er get your thoughts together on that and w we 'll enjoy the goals from that er great victory against Palace at Lane when er Notts fought their way back from being two down against the team that were second in the table , great fight back . |