Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] them against the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nona stared at the grey river where the wind was picking up little waves and throwing them against the walls of the river walk . |
| 2 | The devil-man opened his eyes and shielded them against the brightness of the sky . |
| 3 | Some observers also calculate that , if one takes account of the profits forgone from these enterprises in future years and sets them against the revenues raised now , the government may have sold the assets at too low a price . |
| 4 | One way of doing this is to take a piece of paper and mark the position of the mounting holes and matching them against the motherboard . |
| 5 | If you look at the oxygen results and plot them against the year of coral growth we see cooler water temperatures and hence stronger trade winds during the little ice age prior to nineteen hundred . |
| 6 | His purpose in writing was to recount the human stories of all his fellow parishioners and their ancestors and to set them against the physical environment and administrative framework of the place where they lived . |
| 7 | Sylvester 's text considers these factors and balances them against the feebleness with which Magritte might execute dull repetitions of his more popular compositions . |
| 8 | Or it may abrade ; picking up silt , sand , or even rocks and grinding them against the rock beneath . |