Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] [adv] against the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They grabbed the blind fortune teller and flung him brutally against the wall of a josh-house . |
| 2 | A deep-voiced character with five o'clock shadow all over his face and fists like Popeye the Sailor grabbed the girl by her Indian beads and slammed her up against the mantelpiece . |
| 3 | Bernard grabbed the front of Barak 's shirt and slammed him up against the wall . |
| 4 | He grabbed Brett the moment he opened the door and slammed him up against the wall . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't know , but it would appear that someone took an axe and drove it hard against the wall , with such force the stone was marked and the wooden handle of the axe shattered . ’ |
| 6 | He was at his most sincere when he argued for the South and defended it ferociously against the feebleness of Yankee and British snobberies and prejudice . |
| 7 | She went to sit on the floor where the rush matting was covered by a rug and rested her back against the sofa . |
| 8 | Then , squaring her shoulders , she lifted the knocker again and pounded it repeatedly against the door . |
| 9 | He saw how every little niggling thing old Andy had given him to do counted — how one developed his muscle , another his eye , a third his judgement of time and distance ; how each hour he spent working with the foremast hands taught him to know and understand them better against the day when such men as they were would look to him for guidance . |
| 10 | Andy yelled , throwing the keys down and grabbing me by the collar and slamming me back against the side of the Landie . |
| 11 | And the wind took him up pony and all , and plumped him up against the hedge . ’ |
| 12 | From time to time she crossed the room , soaked a flannel in the tepid water of a basin , and pressed it gently against the Collector 's swollen face . |
| 13 | Claudia woke up slowly , opening her eyes and closing them immediately against the light that poured in through long narrow windows . |
| 14 | He bent to pick them up and I pulled him into the alley and smashed him up against the wall . |
| 15 | and lean it up against the garden shed , you know what I mean ? |
| 16 | For a while he had stood there at his side studying how he worked , how he soaked the garments and slapped them rhythmically against the smooth stone slabs . |
| 17 | It is mildly blasphemous , too , to be sent into this breathing world with trillions and trillions of brain-cells , all anxious to fire and to titillate , and to shutter them off against the more vigorous half of human thought . |
| 18 | Next day he came along carrying a huge , man-sized wooden cross , and propped it up against the pageant . |
| 19 | Mr Tate advises prospective purchasers to produce a written list of requirements , and to check them off against the package one by one . |
| 20 | Why , wondered Senator Rudman at the hearings , had he not taken North into his office and closed the door and put him up against the wall and pushed him and pushed him and pushed him ? |
| 21 | If you turned it into a business , you could keep six maids and gardeners if you wanted and write them off against the pigs . |
| 22 | He tightened his grip and pushed her back against the door-jamb suddenly . |
| 23 | She spoke brusquely to you and pushed you back against the door of Woolworth 's . ’ |
| 24 | Periodically I went down into the warmth below , to write up my notes and check them over against the ship 's design plans , which Nils had produced for me before going off with Iain to talk to the Navy Yard people . |
| 25 | The younger man had hauled his older opponent from the ground and held him up against the wall with one hand while he pummelled his face with the other , and the blood covered his fist . |