Example sentences of "[verb] against he [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't a conscious move on her part , and yet , once open to his erotically roving tongue , she was helpless to do anything except melt against him with a low moan as the same desire as yesterday curled through her stomach . |
| 2 | On top of that , nine county court judgments and a High Court judgment have been made against him in the past two years , including £6,227 , still unpaid , owed to the Royal Bank of Scotland . |
| 3 | But in the last twelve months the fury of the entire national had been aroused against him by an aged , exiled cleric for whom he had only contempt . |
| 4 | It may therefore be necessary to proceed against him under the latter section , supposing that the requisite intention can be established , or under section 5 . |
| 5 | Every incriminating word that Younis uttered within range of the room bugs was meticulously recorded , transcribed and translated as evidence to be used against him in an American court . |
| 6 | Saddam 's means of war are products of modern science and technology , as are those even more lethal systems being unleashed against him by the Western allies . |
| 7 | The Gallic chief , Commius , who had been a friend and ally of Caesar , turned against him in the great revolt of Vercingetorix after the Roman invasion of 55 and 54 BC . |
| 8 | If the immigration authorities concluded that Mr Hussain 's assertion that he was undecided as to his long term intentions was pretended rather than genuine , clearly that would weigh against him in the primary purpose issue . |
| 9 | Mr Engholm admitted that he had lied in 1987 to a committee investigating a dirty-tricks campaign mounted against him by the Christian Democrats . |
| 10 | On one occasion when he had arranged it with elaborate care , he charged a colleague who brushed against him in a narrow passage , destroying the structure of his toga . |
| 11 | It will not do to paint Themistokles as Kimon 's opponent on the issue of foreign policy principles — that is , as a medising Sparta-hater — and thereby to seek to explain his ostracism in 471 : it is now certain that very many ostraka were cast against him in the early 480s when his patriotism was not in question . |
| 12 | When she began to unbutton his shirt he stood , paralysed , staring at the slack flesh round her stomach , he shivered and she took it for excitement ; he had dreamed about this , waiting for the moment when he would instinctively know what to do , would take control , but instead she was rubbing against him with a cool professionalism that unnerved him . |
| 13 | This sort of nonsense could have been fairly innocuous had it not been for the fact that under Napoleon I , the frequent employment of courtiers in great and influential offices of state had led to a gradual isolation of the Emperor , which in turn gave too much power to those close to the throne , many of whom , it should be noted , actively worked against him in the last years of the reign . |
| 14 | Mrs Brown has been lobbying her MP the Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd for help , even to the extent of standing against him in the recent general election . |
| 15 | To read some of the ad hominem propagandizing directed against him in the post-war years , one might imagine Karajan was a great player in this awesome drama . |
| 16 | Among several other flaws in Anselm 's election and investiture , there was one which neither Anselm nor anyone else mentioned at the time , but was later to be held against him by the papal legate : on a strict view , his election -in addition to all its other legal defects — had been schismatic , since the king and all the others who took part , with the sole exception of Anselm himself , were schismatics , for they had not recognized Urban II as the legitimate pope although he had now been pope for five years . |