Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [adv prt] against [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dorcas sat in his workshop and stared at the snow piling up against the grubby window , giving the shed a dull grey light . |
| 2 | This might have seemed merely the occupational hazard of the self-indulgent restaurateur , but for a manic edge contributed by the tightly-curled crop of hair , the thin cigar drooping from his wide mouth and the garishness of a turquoise tie standing out against a black suit and matching shirt . |
| 3 | She gave him a quick amused glance , her head leaning back against the faded red of the alcove seat . |
| 4 | On the pasture near-by Hazel could see scattered , russet-and-orange-coloured fragments , some with feathery , light-green foliage showing up against the darker grass . |
| 5 | C'm on , will you ? ’ and he gave her a hand suiting up against the outside cold . |
| 6 | Masked by the apparently careless tumble of examples ( ‘ etc. , etc. ’ ) is a calculated insistence on the sore spot , on what Shatov in the notebooks calls social unsteadiness , a small but virulent secular profanity standing over against the noble , perhaps the noblest sequence in The Possessed , where Marie Shatov returns to her husband to give birth to another man 's child . |