Example sentences of "right [adv prt] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't want to go near them , so I walk right up against the shops , sort of leaning right against the windows so they wo n't get me . |
| 2 | Tug lay very still and concentrated on breathing and the voice went on , so softly that it was only just possible to hear it , even though Doyle 's face was right up against his ear . |
| 3 | Funny thing was they had no gardens and were built right up against the old City Rampart . |
| 4 | The local army base , a corrugated fortress with a spindly camera tower , is pressed right up against a primary school . |
| 5 | Eubank has been at his best when right up against it and facing defeat , especially in the battle with Nigel Benn that first gave him the world middleweight title and then when he climbed off the floor in the second , tragic contest with Michael Watson . |
| 6 | Little Billy shifted his position and placed one eye right up against the square hole that was no bigger than a postage stamp . |
| 7 | Now they are going to appeal , but in the meanwhile the work is going on and the bulldozers are ready and waiting on the west side of the excavations , right up against the seventeenth-century cellars which were found intact , still full of bottles and vessels . |
| 8 | And what they do , I 'm going to try and show you on this doll in a minute , the hips are abducted which means they 're brought right up against the chest and then they 're pulled round and they 're rotated in the socket and you feel and listen for a click |
| 9 | There were many sittings at Freud 's studio in Delamere Terrace , during which the artist , for the purposes of intimate study , sat almost right up against his subject . |
| 10 | At which point I turn and see that they have n't gone off at all , that I 'm sitting on the fourth step , the bottom step , right up against the barrier . |
| 11 | They have professional obligations to engage in that kind of scholarly work ; and , in that sense , be right up against the ‘ frontiers ’ . |
| 12 | Together they moved the step-ladder right up against the wall . |
| 13 | Everything has happened at the last minute , right up against our deadlines , but I am convinced that if we can promote the raffle through the summer magazine it stands every chance of being a great success . |
| 14 | These final examples of persistent facies brings us right up against the obvious explanation of a climatic control , and certainly strong arguments have been put forward on climatic grounds to explain some of the carbonate distributions . |
| 15 | Folly realised that in her eagerness not to miss the sights she had ended up nestling right up against Luke Hunter 's arm . |
| 16 | I 've been trying to get routine security stepped up but you come right up against the lords of the wallet : who 's going to pay for it ? |
| 17 | And there was a lot of space between the hut and the door and the wind took me and flung me right up against the tank and I went down to the ground and crawled on me hands and knees . |
| 18 | Other times it was dinner ; twice he took her dancing , the smoochy old-fashioned sort of dancing , not a disco , the sort where she was right up against him and his hands held her in a strong , commanding kind of way . |
| 19 | Not only because of the risk and the safety factor er of the gun going off , because of er a movement by that person on the floor , but so there 's no getting around it that , should a firearm be discharged against a solid object in as much as er the barrel is right up against an individual , and the trigger is pulled . |
| 20 | Yeah I 'll be planting mine right up against the metal fence |
| 21 | well drove out and turned , her bumper caught Mick 's wing and right up against the wheel so imagine to pull it out to drive it and the driver said oh wo n't claim on the insurance she said , erm , I 'll pay it , get three estimates and let me have them and Mick said it 's gon na be about three hundred quid , well if it had gone through the insurance he could then have put in for a hire car |
| 22 | How about all the work you do must bring you right up against a lot of raw emotion . |
| 23 | I mean there is it 's not right up against somebody else 's house . |
| 24 | But it 's right up against the house , it 's got ta come down . |
| 25 | It fluttered for a moment and then folded right back against the fuselage , like a roosting bird . |
| 26 | Mr Davies said : ‘ Mrs Morgan was right back against the fence but was struck as this juggernaut continued on its way . ’ |