Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] against the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am happy to say that the farmers of the United Kingdom believe in this ministerial team and in the Government , who are fighting for them against the proposals of the European Community . |
| 2 | In 1905 , at age 48 , he walked 200 yards , ran 200 yards , cycled 200 yards , rowed 200 yards and swam 200 yards , all in under a total of eight minutes , and in 1903 he had swum five miles in the Thames ( two of them against the tide ) . |
| 3 | Peebles played 18 games for the Ports during an extended loan period , and scored three goals — ironically one of them against the Blues in that 3–0 win on the last day of the season . |
| 4 | It 'll be four hundred and fifty of them against the fifty enemy horse waiting there , and easy enough , you would think . |
| 5 | Acting bravely and with initiative during the mutiny , he is oppressed with shame when he remembers certain arrogant and cruel actions of his against the crew . |
| 6 | Many officers routinely make an impressionistic assessment of quality , with a sniff of the water in the sample bottle or a sight of it against the light . |
| 7 | He went across to the wash-basin , picked up a drinking-glass and , putting the top of it against the wall , applied his ear to the base . |
| 8 | It was an evening of blissful happiness for Jack 's brother , a return to boyhood , those beloved ‘ Malvern days when it was just the two of us against the P'daytabird ’ . |
| 9 | yeah because ten to fifteen years earlier there was n't this amount of class consciousness and now you 're saying that bond 's completely broken down which I may agree with you on but , but they 're now organizing themselves purely on this hey we 're all friends now or s and we 've got ta gang together all seventy percent of us against the landlords which was n't |
| 10 | DeVore 's ‘ gift ’ was crouched behind him against the far wall of the craft , as far from the open hatchway as she could . |
| 11 | Touring with them against the top countries , ‘ not hiding , getting thrashed from time to time , but facing the top teams , learning all the time , and accepting that if we 're going to stay as a competitive group we 've got to be as far ahead of the others as possible ’ . |
| 12 | His deepest sympathies sided with her against the plum-mouthed bureaucrats of the Cabinet Office . |
| 13 | I stood with her against the sink . |
| 14 | Pound 's disparagement of Milton , for instance , was , I am convinced , most salutary twenty and thirty years ago ; I still agree with him against the academic admirers of Milton ; though to me it seems that the situation has changed . |
| 15 | MacDonald and Walker point to the fact that HCP acquired the characteristics of an exclusive club in speculating that , ‘ Stenhouse invited the teachers to create an alliance with him against the forces of institutional and attitudinal inertia in the school system ’ . |
| 16 | Simon 's big head and loose mouth loomed above him against the ridiculous English summer sky , which was the color of iron . |
| 17 | I had caught an eider duck that had been sheltering on a lochan and was flying back with it against the wind when I grew tired . |
| 18 | Black fury rose in him against the evil creature who was leeching Ireland of her youth , but Nuadu quenched it , lest the Robemaker turn it to his use . |
| 19 | Propped up in bed to ease her breathing , her nightcap pulled down over her ears , Aunt Sarah seemed to have shrunk inside the shawls which had been heaped upon her against the chill of the room . |
| 20 | Yet this is now the fourth general election in a row in which Scotland has had a Tory government imposed upon it against the wishes and the votes of the overwhelming majority of its people . |
| 21 | A blanket wrapped about him against the cold , his bravest warriors at his flanks , Joseph rides out to make peace with Generals Miles and Howard , and their officers , in the Bear Paws Mountains , 5th October 1877 . |
| 22 | And the shape Aldhelm would present was that of a man young by his step and pace , in a dun-coloured cloak wrapped about him against the rain , and with the pointed hood drawn up over his head . |
| 23 | Yo yo you knew your clubman was coming , you 've stayed in and that is how our local clubman who is now dead , Mr became a councillor because naturally , people voted for him against the Conservative because he was someone they knew , someone like as came you know . |
| 24 | After the overthrow of Avitus in 456 Majorian had to use force to bring the Visigoths into line , but thereafter they fought for him against the Sueves in Spain . |
| 25 | Today a team of friends played for him against the Brize Norton Club , before the match he walked the boundary with the great grandson of a former team mate . |
| 26 | As they try tomorrow to do against the brilliant Brazilians what was beyond them against the amateurish Americans , the Liverpool new boy is reminded of Nottingham Forest 's brave battle against relegation . |
| 27 | Yet it was then that I knew why I had come , for just distinguishable to me against the background of reciting voices , I heard my own voice . |
| 28 | She was very fashionably dressed , in a morning gown of the latest sprigged muslin , the waist high , with a blue spencer over it against the spring chills . |
| 29 | ‘ I was just looking at you against the lights of the city , ’ she says . |
| 30 | Perhaps the deep concern of the horsemen to keep their high standard of work even in the ordinary day-to-day ploughing can best be understood when we look at it against the background of a practice that was once common in many parts of Suffolk . |