Example sentences of "came [adv prt] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | You saw that when he came on against Scotland . |
| 2 | But right-wing delegations , such as the AEU engineering union , came down against any ‘ segregated ’ affiliate . |
| 3 | She found that , in the case before her , the balance came down against ordering the return of the children to Australia . |
| 4 | It came down against the crash barrier . |
| 5 | Stewart was suddenly violent , he backed away from Menzies , came up against the door , turned , and was gone . |
| 6 | But when she came up against Australia 's Michelle Jaggard , a more experienced player but by no means a world-beater , she struggled even to get a game . |
| 7 | Frontier youth workers came up against the destructive , deceptive nature of evil in many of its present forms . |
| 8 | Even more important , perhaps , were the discussions about the notion of a women 's aesthetic : again and again , the attempt to articulate the new and unspoken came up against the absence of an appropriate language . |
| 9 | She came up against the unsolved riddle with a horrible jerk . |
| 10 | Two years later the regent came up against more visible opposition . |
| 11 | ONCE-RACED MILIYEL * , who came up against the 1,000 Guineas ante-post favourite Musicale when both made their debut at Lingfield last season , may open her account in the Geoffrey Barling Maiden Fillies ' Stakes ( 2.00 ) at Newmarket today . |
| 12 | Of course , once we got into government a great many of our ambitions and aims and the ideas we 'd seized hold of from talking to the Americans , people like Robert McNamara for instance , of the American Department of Defense , came up against the realities of Whitehall . |
| 13 | In late 1988 , Fairclough came up against some of the worst tunnelling conditions its engineers had ever encountered , in sandy ground beneath Tooting Bec Common , south London . |
| 14 | Glennon was a similar height and build to Edwards and in 1987 had to face a similar height problem when he came up against England 's Dave Cusani . |
| 15 | Donald was in full cry but he came up against a rejuvenated Kapil Dev . |
| 16 | Hastening round the keep they came up against unexpected obstruction . |
| 17 | He repeated his question , and came up against the same smiling ignorance . |
| 18 | ‘ You came up against outdoor players , many of them farmers who would simply barrel you backwards in the tight and , if they got to you , in the loose . ’ |
| 19 | Separatism , despite any protestations to the contrary , came up against the age old problem of how to transpose the idea onto the material world . |
| 20 | I trained hard all last winter and in one race I came up against a black who I knew had n't prepared properly . |
| 21 | We came up against official incompetence as soon as we arrived in Spain . |
| 22 | He had been a detective since he was twenty-five and , although unorthodox in his methods , had waged a successful war against the criminals he came up against . |
| 23 | There were more unrelated Smiths playing against each other in the Triangular Tournament of 1912 , when Tiger of England came up against Dave of Australia . |
| 24 | Relying upon authority rather than cultivating widespread support , he soon came up against resistance from those who detected a tampering with the basic fabric of Orthodoxy . |
| 25 | But in the Japanese Empire she at last came up against an eastern power developing at a rate comparable to her own , and one capable of offering effective resistance . |
| 26 | During his brave and daring life he came up against many dangers , none so well remembered and retold as the story of how he was saved from death at the hands of the Red Indians by Pocohontas , daughter of Chief Powhattan . |
| 27 | He 's being ironic ; in the Navy he came up against arbitrary discipline , the officer class and the English . |
| 28 | At least they did not encounter what the builders of the Moscow Underground came up against many years later , a quicksand in their path . |
| 29 | On all sides : the abolitionists , the retentionists , and the abstainers , the vote was recognized as a momentous one in which the consciences of Members of Parliament came up against a profound issue transcending party politics . |
| 30 | Newcomen came up against Savery 's work when he tried to exploit his steam engines . |