Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up against the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Biddy 's gimlet eyes screwed into Nutty and travelled reflectively to the scowling Nails , nervous little Hoomey and Jazz in his rain-soggy turban , all lined up against the wall . |
| 2 | It was n't even in a fridge or nothing — it was just pressed up against the window to keep it cold . |
| 3 | Yet any comparison of British and foreign economic performance over the period since 1945 is soon brought up against the effects of different institutional forms . |
| 4 | That 's where the fuel tanks are located and though it seemed likely that the partial tearing away of the wing had also ruptured the fuel lines and spilled the fuel , there was no way of being sure and no one , again as far as I know , has ever come up against the problem of what happens when an oxyacetylene jet meets a fuel tank under water . |
| 5 | Many of the canvases produced in the later part of 1906 constitute what might be called a ‘ crisis ’ point in Picasso 's art in that he was becoming increasingly obsessed with creating figures which were heavily volumetric , indeed often almost grotesquely bulky , but which simultaneously adhered or clung to the picture plane : the effect they produce could best be described by imagining a series of pneumatic models pushed up against heavy panes of glass and pumped up with air , so that they get larger and larger whilst simultaneously flattening up against the surface in front of them . |
| 6 | But no warning could check Arthur Conway 's fury , and with a lightning leap he managed to grip the young man 's throat , and so fiercely that he forced him backwards , only the next moment to have his arms snapped downwards , when he would have fallen on his back if he had n't come up against the coalhouse wall and , unfortunately , a shovel that was propped there . |
| 7 | Another wise investment is a life-jacket , for no matter how strong a swimmer you may be you can not swim if you are well wrapped up against the cold . |
| 8 | The Company Commander , well wrapped up against the weather , surveyed his dripping subordinate from plimsoll to clinging singlet . |
| 9 | He was well wrapped up against the weather . |
| 10 | Some hearths were simply butted up against the surround , whilst in other designs , the surround stood on the hearth . |
| 11 | As a travelling artist , I frequently come up against the problem of transporting my work . |
| 12 | As a travelling artist , I frequently come up against the problem of transporting my work . |
| 13 | You will almost certainly come up against the person who has ordered something and then decided they do n't want it . |
| 14 | An' 'e said , ‘ All workers 'ave got ter rise up against the bosses an' seize the means o' production , an' that day 's not far orf . ’ |
| 15 | It therefore comes up against the problem that the inevitability of Mosca 's specific type of elite is less immediately plausible and more easily disproved This vulnerability was readily seized on by critics of elite theory . |