Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [verb] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | But things change quickly at Ferrari and , in 1990 , he found himself swimming against the political tide . |
| 2 | So when the first stallion , a beautiful bay unbroken three-year-old , was lead into the ring , and Lindsay saw and sensed in the horse many of those virtues that a horse-lover hopes for , he found himself bidding against two knackers , until he had bought the horse for the price of dogs-meat — $185 ! |
| 3 | Wearily , she let herself rest against him . |
| 4 | Julia let herself lean against him . |
| 5 | As he drew her close to him , she let herself fall against him . |
| 6 | When she had done all she could she went to the bathroom and wept for a while and found herself raging against her lodger for being young and clean and free of spirit and unsure because he had never faced death . |
| 7 | She did not even realize her hair had come down and that she had lost her hat until she found herself leaning against a wall somewhere on the other side of St Jude 's Passage , her lungs bursting , her temples and her pulses hammering out their distress , her whole appearance wild and dishevelled and attracting not the least attention in that place which-no matter what might have befallen her — had seen it all before . |
| 8 | She found herself struggling against a bitter , unreasonable disappointment . |
| 9 | The name stuck in her throat , and she found herself fighting against this ludicrous anger . |
| 10 | Lindsey found herself battling against an almost overwhelming and totally illogical desire to run her fingers through its neatness . |
| 11 | After much deliberation and in great sorrow , the family of Don Antonio Beatillo , learned laureate and doctor , glory of the Faculty of Philosophy in the University of Naples , have resolved themselves to appeal against the last will and testament of their beloved and revered father , made in January last year , as being composed by the deceased when not in his right mind . ’ |
| 12 | In the confusion following Majorian 's death in 461 , however , they found themselves fighting against one of his closest supporters , Aegidius , first in the south , and subsequently in the Loire valley , where Frideric was killed in 463 . |
| 13 | As the inflation worsened and as numerous small private entrepreneurs found themselves discriminated against by government controls , they went on strike . |
| 14 | Thus I found myself standing against my bedroom wall , with a large stone secured to the end of my penis with a length of string . |
| 15 | As their two entwined bodies bobbed like corks in the water , Ronni closed her eyes and let herself melt against him . |
| 16 | We find ourselves swimming against the tide . |
| 17 | Tracy is a cab driver who finds himself struggling against the power of the city 's corrupt taxi bosses . |
| 18 | Fran struggled briefly , but soon gave up the uneven match , letting herself rest against his chest while he stroked her hair with a surprisingly gentle hand . |
| 19 | Paula plays Diane , the oldest entrant , who finds herself competing against her daughter . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , we have a situation where women find themselves discriminated against and often in a disadvantaged position because they are caring for others . |
| 21 | Every rime the blue light filled the block we saw ourselves silhouetted against the floor . |
| 22 | The trees grabbed at him with twiggy fingers as he rose up through them , lurching this way and that in the gusts , and then he felt himself held against the invisible rushing breast of the long Wind , as she hurled moaning along the sky . |
| 23 | Ten thousand years earlier the Second Empire had fought itself to collapse against a race of genetically altered super-beings . |
| 24 | When she sat down she did n't let herself rest against the back of the chair . |
| 25 | Trevor Skeet struggled to make himself heard against the din . |
| 26 | His face is n't cruel , and I 'm relieved to find no attitude there that I might find myself kicking against . |