Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [adv prt] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out of it he could see Barry , his bike propped up against his house , mending his chain . |
| 2 | Gary is eating a heaped bowl of cornflakes in the kitchen , while reading Home Computer propped up against the milk bottle and listening via the hall and two open doors to a record by UB40 playing at maximum volume on the music centre in the lounge . |
| 3 | They vary from the smallest tin shack propped up against a breakwater to the smartest yacht club in Cowes — but you will find the same enthusiasm for the sport in each . |
| 4 | There were also reports throughout 1990 detailing acts of violence carried out against Bhutanese citizens by ethnic Nepalese and various other dissident elements . |
| 5 | Large plants and containers make this impractical , and it is then a case of loosening the soil-ball at the sides with a stick pushed down against the inside wall of the container . |
| 6 | On a chair in the scullery in his cardigan and his cap and his bad leg stuck out to one side , and his tins of paint on newspapers all around , and a big panel of wood propped up against the wall with a picture on it of a battleship in a stormy sea . |
| 7 | ( ACT carried back against pre-17 March 1987 periods can only be offset against a company 's income — ie excluding capital gains . ) |
| 8 | Any defence will have their work cut out against Wright/Campbell the way Arse play . |
| 9 | Reports in the Washington Post of April 2 , citing the New York-based human rights group Middle East Watch , also confirmed cases of revenge attacks meted out against Palestinians [ see p. 38118 ] and others suspected of collaborating with the Iraqis . |
| 10 | On Oct 1 the high command of the ( Serbian-dominated ) Yugoslav National Army ( JNA ) , accusing Croatia of violating the Sept. 22 ceasefire [ see p. 38421 ] , threatened Croatia with reprisals on Croatian civilian targets for attacks carried out against JNA barracks in Croatia . |
| 11 | It was pleasant to lie and think of other Februaries and see himself abroad at dusk in the fields under a chilling rain , standing in a cart hunched up against the storm , bending and rising and bending again to toss turnips to the streaming cattle , listening to their soft thud in the mud and the straining of the horse as his hooves sucked and sank , the cattle lowing plaintively and the sharp crunch of their scooping teeth . |
| 12 | As she opened her drawing-pad , Julius settled himself on the grass , his back propped up against one of the stones . |
| 13 | Whoever she was living with , roused by the smell of burning , had come downstairs to discover her slumped across the hearth with her head pressed up against a glowing electric fire . |
| 14 | Brawl The pot boiled over against Wales at Cardiff Arms Park that same year in a brawl of a game that resulted in bans for Gareth Chilcott , Graham Dawe , Wade Dooley and Hill , who was blamed for failing to exercise his captaincy correctly . |
| 15 | A two-year-old is reaching excitedly out towards the hot soldering iron propped up against a saucer on the table . |
| 16 | Bernard leafs through the vast vinyl collection propped up against his bedroom wall , and pulls out a freshly-purchased copy of Television 's ‘ Marquee Moon ’ to illustrate Tom Verlaine 's mastery of the tasteful , moving solo . |
| 17 | Well , no non , unsecured loan written off against barrelage . |
| 18 | Either form of explanation acts as an insurance policy taken out against the contingency of actions and events . |
| 19 | It is very doubtful whether the occasional smack meted out against a background of a loving , accepting home , does anyone much harm ; but this is true only if the punishment is not too severe or excessive . |
| 20 | I 've left my cobweb brush propped up against the bus-stop . |
| 21 | Sanders has already got the US vehicle divisions lined up against him . |
| 22 | They trooped inside and followed Phrynius down a shabby hall , then through another door to a larger room which had the shutters pulled down against the sun and which smelled slightly of ammonia and sulphur . |
| 23 | Unfortunately for Galway , the perception is that Michael Heseltine had an Alsatian teamed up against an Irish poodle . |
| 24 | He opened the front door and stood for a moment on the step looking at the glimmer of light touching the pale dome of the church and the glow of the city thrown up against the sky . |
| 25 | There has been a major increase over the last year in the number of disqualification proceedings taken out against directors , according to the Insolvency Service . |
| 26 | Like death he looked , with a handkerchief held up against his face all bloodied , and his black eyes glaring over the top of it . |
| 27 | He pumped a shot into the breech and laid the gun on the portside cockpit settee , covering it with his shirt weighted down against the wind with the coiled stern line . |
| 28 | Then she noticed the walking stick jammed up against the wall between the table and the chair , exactly as though he wanted to hide it or disown it . |
| 29 | If sharing between mother and baby was minimal , the baby held too tightly and not allowed to play with breast or bottle , pleasing the self by masturbation may give more satisfaction than intercourse and pleasure given by another , as it may if the baby was left too much on its own , the bottle propped up against the pillow . |
| 30 | Millie would have been fiddling awkwardly with the thick brush of ginger hair coarser than her father 's , and even redder — that sprang away all round her face , while her cello case , which I had carried back for her , was no doubt propped up against one of the crumbling and gateless brick pillars in front of their house , like a portly little old man too out of breath to speak . |