Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] up against [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know how you poke your nose against wire netting and push it up against an apple tree , but you still ca n't bite the bark because of the wire . |
| 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 managed to heave Charlie into the main bar and prop him up against a wall . |
| 6 | He had never been with a man who wanted to take him out at three in morning and stand him up against a wall in a dark street and jerk him off , not because there was nowhere else to go , but for the pleasure of doing it like that ; he had never done it again and again with one body . |
| 7 | And the wind took him up pony and all , and plumped him up against the hedge . ’ |
| 8 | He bent to pick them up and I pulled him into the alley and smashed him up against the wall . |
| 9 | and lean it up against the garden shed , you know what I mean ? |
| 10 | Next day he came along carrying a huge , man-sized wooden cross , and propped it up against the pageant . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | 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 . |