Example sentences of "been [verb] against [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 On top of that , nine county court judgments and a High Court judgment have been made against him in the past two years , including £6,227 , still unpaid , owed to the Royal Bank of Scotland .
2 His next sentence unobtrusively removed an argument that might have been used against me in the leadership contest .
3 At any time after adjudication a bankrupt may apply to the court for his discharge , which , if granted , will enable him to start again , stripped of his property , but ( with certain exceptions ) free from any claim which might have been proved against him in the bankruptcy .
4 On numerous occasions direct threats have been issued against them by the IRA in local newspapers .
5 By 9 January 1177 he had besieged Dax , which had been held against him by the Viscount of Dax and Bigorre , and taken it ; he had besieged Bayonne , which the Viscount of Bayonne had held against him , and taken it ; he had marched right up to " the Gate of Spain " at Cize and there he had captured and demolished the castle of St Pierre .
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