Example sentences of "be [verb] up against the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toilet seats are propped up against the wall , in the unlikely event that someone might want to buy them in a country where hygiene is pathological . |
| 2 | The home-help walked down the road towards Marie , wheeling her bike which had been propped up against the curb . |
| 3 | When it was over , the top of his head ached where it had been crammed up against the headboard and there were red marks just below his knees where his legs had gone over the footboard . |
| 4 | ‘ There are people who are ‘ smokers and proud of it ’ who are coming up against the trend that the rest of society wants to see . ’ |
| 5 | They may be crowded up against the window of the tour bus or milling together on the pavement , but one thing is for sure — they 're taking snapshots . |
| 6 | The potential benefits must be weighed up against the costs involved and the risk of failure . |
| 7 | He described how the ladder was to be set up against the wire , how people were to clamber over and how they were to swing themselves clear through the gap at the end . |
| 8 | The rail will be butted up against the sides of the wardrobe , and where this is n't the case , end stops prevent disaster . |
| 9 | Margarete 's memorialising book about Milena , published when the author was already in her late seventies , gives grimly graphic pictures of camp life , and underlines , as if it were needed , how the two womens ' all too comprehensive experience of two totalitarian systems led Milena to declare that Stalinism and Hitlerism were indistinguishable ( as a result of which the communists ' leader in the camp declared that ‘ after the liberation Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann would be stood up against the wall by the Red Army . ’ |
| 10 | Groups such as Families Against Intimidation and Terror , the Newry hostage support group , Enough is Enough , the Peace Train Movement and New Consensus in Northern Ireland are standing up against the people of violence so as to ensure that there is another approach and a different tactic . |
| 11 | The ladder could have been put up against the wall any time of night — ’ |
| 12 | Sure enough , a second ray-gun and clock , identical to the first , were set up against the back wall . |
| 13 | Gilbert and Frye were standing up against the glass panes of the reception area , staring out into the storm-ravaged night . |
| 14 | Braking was by means of the fixed gear transmission and an emergency stop could mean bashed knees as they were forced up against the dashboard and steering wheel . |
| 15 | Two placards were leaning up against the walls . |
| 16 | It was like a dream that Sam could neither halt nor awake from : the gulls were screaming overhead and the rollers were thundering up against the Gribbin . |
| 17 | A pile of dark plastic sacks were piled up against the wall to one side . |
| 18 | See if my husband wants a hand with these bits of wood he 's plonking up against the wall ! |
| 19 | ‘ See , ’ the gynaecologist says , ‘ the ovary should be floating free but this one 's banged up against the tube — it 's so swollen . ’ |
| 20 | Well that 's leaning up against the wall . |
| 21 | The room was unpainted and the only furniture consisted of a lime green sofa , two wooden chairs and a three-legged coffee table which was propped up against the wall to prevent it from toppling over . |
| 22 | She wandered across the laboratory to where it was propped up against the wall . |
| 23 | ‘ This was propped up against the body , on the front doorstep . ’ |
| 24 | DeVore was pressed up against the wall , Gesell 's knife at his throat . |
| 25 | A new cult established itself over twenty years , its shrine being the domed town of the Keepers , which was built up against the entrance to caverns . |
| 26 | Even during the summer term he was wrapped up against the elements in waterproof jacket and leggings — his head encased in a leather helmet with ear-flaps . |
| 27 | The speeder 's weapons platform was jammed up against the underside of the platform : somewhere in the middle of the sandwich was a crushed laser cannon . |
| 28 | His head was jammed up against the back of the sofa , his cheek on the carpet and Doyle 's hand clamped over his mouth . |
| 29 | He wriggled back further on the bed till he was leaning up against the wall . |
| 30 | They 've taken three oil paintings ; two off the walls and one which was leaning up against the window sill , er the candlesticks and the vases off the altar , another very beautiful , very simple oak chair with cane seat and back . |