Example sentences of "[verb] against the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benedict imprisoned her closer , oblivious to her grubby hands caught against the pristine whiteness of his neckcloth . |
| 2 | Caught against the muscular hardness of his chest , warm and alien through the fine silk of his shirt , a matter of inches only between the shadowy regions of hip and groin , the familiar disturbing responses were shimmering through her bloodstream . |
| 3 | Does not this place give the Prime Minister the chance to show whether he is really against the smears that have been organised against the Labour party , or is he getting others to do his dirty work for him ? |
| 4 | Crow sat in its chair , telling loud lies against the Black Beast . |
| 5 | It began to rain , a steady stream that blew in from the east and beat against the stony flanks of the western hills . |
| 6 | Outside the wind blustered and beat against the wooden shutters and the huge sign , swinging on its iron pole , creaked and groaned as if calling out across the darkened , rain-soaked meadows . |
| 7 | But , as I have indicated , the Crown case requires that there must be ambiguity and further requires that the ambiguity must be resolved against the ordinary meaning of the word and in favour of the neutral meaning preferred and required by the Crown 's argument . |
| 8 | The curtain was a dense , opaque greenish-yellow , and something was right behind it , a shape pressing against the humped plastic standing there looking down at him , half seen , half imagined . |
| 9 | He held her gaze , allowing his own eyes to drop to her breasts , which were pressing against the clinging material of her dress . |
| 10 | Fran swallowed hard , feeling the hard outline of his body pressing against the soft curve of her breast in a way that seemed to steal her breath . |
| 11 | Frenular bristles are absent or small in these insects but there is sometimes a more distally placed series of costal spines ( the pseudofrenulum ) on the hind wing which functions independently of the jugum by pressing against the anal area of the fore wing ( e.g. Sabatinca ) , or a series of interlocking hairs on the basal half of the hind margin of the fore Wing and the fore margin of the hind wing ( e.g. Mnesarchaea ) . |
| 12 | He struggled and pleaded , curling his exposed fingers into a fist that strained against the bigger , stronger fingers encircling his wrist . |
| 13 | He lowered his head and kissed the taut peak where it strained against the thin fabric of her T-shirt . |
| 14 | With her hands she smoothed the front of her blouse until her breasts swelled against the top button . |
| 15 | No wonder he fumed against the new , freer-handed satiric writers , Kingsley Amis and John Wain . |
| 16 | Those involved are attempting to come to grips with the injustices , the inequalities and the prejudices of a political system in which the practice of representative democracy appears to have little relevance to their plight as they battle against the social and economic problems briefly outlined above . |
| 17 | Bennett had a shot tipped against the upright and Gavin May and Whiddett both missed golden opportunities . |
| 18 | Within minutes one was torn from reading a book to being gagged and trussed up in a sack , carried down stairs by running men , waiting for the bag to slip or rip and one 's head or neck to smash against the hard stone steps . |
| 19 | The message added : ‘ The district council has taken legal advice from senior counsel who have confirmed that the district council did have a case which it could competently pursue against the local paper . |
| 20 | She did n't want to come against the flat slack flesh . |
| 21 | Work by Shiller ( 1979 ) claims to find against the Efficient Markets hypothesis in USA and UK bond markets . |
| 22 | Here we are talking about single genes cheating against the other genes with which they share a body . |
| 23 | It should then be covered , on both sides , in polythene and carefully rolled against the lay of the nap ( the way the pile faces ) into a reasonably tight cylindrical form . |
| 24 | Police say against the wrong victim , the stun gun could be deadly . |
| 25 | Despite the fact that Gassendi and Boyle took care to find a place for God and the soul in their revivals of the theory , its adherents had perpetually to struggle against the undeniable fact that Epicurus had introduced it as a foundation for his explicit materialistic atheism . |
| 26 | He no longer believed that it was possible to struggle against the cruel forces of capitalist wealth . |
| 27 | The world is tragic because men and women are compelled to struggle against the oppressive , deathly forces of their social condition in order to accede to the world of the living . |
| 28 | To struggle against it was revolutionary and progressive , whereas to struggle against the objective processes producing a class would be futile and Utopian . |
| 29 | For me — who had consciously to struggle against the imagaic maelstrom implicit in the idea of retroscendence — to have to deploy my powers in this pedestrian manner seemed nothing less than absurd . |
| 30 | Evert was supposed to struggle against the hard-hitting Jana Novotna , who has risen to 12th in the world rankings . |