Example sentences of "[pron] come [adv prt] against the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She came up against the unsolved riddle with a horrible jerk . |
| 3 | Once again we come up against the indissoluble limit between the Spirit and Jesus . |
| 4 | However one looks at the early movies one comes up against the decisive contribution of the showmen , but obviously their role was most noticeable in the way the movies were presented . |
| 5 | This is of course a perfectly defensible approach , but it seems to me a limited one : inevitably one comes up against the micro-macro conundrum . |
| 6 | Perhaps he came up against the Edwardian equivalent of a conservation lobby . |