Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | It sounded like footsteps , followed by a sliding noise , as of someone pressing themselves against the wall and sitting down . |
| 2 | I threw myself against the cell door and hammered and shouted , crying to be let out . |
| 3 | I threw myself against the wall and prayed . |
| 4 | I flattened myself against the wall . |
| 5 | I braced myself against the sides of the trench and listened to the explosions and the debris landing on the roof . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's a bomb , ’ I thought , as I braced myself against the walls of the trench waiting for the inevitable explosion . |
| 7 | I steady myself against the wall . |
| 8 | In those circumstances , difficulties should not be caused to member states which defended themselves against practices designed to circumvent the quota system by determining in accordance with international law the criteria on whose basis they granted vessels the right to fly their flag . |
| 9 | Since at least the time of Rousseau it has been the assertion of self against the preternaturally distorting effects of modern , and later industrial civilisation ; sex , that is to say , is the essence of our individual being which asserts itself against the demands of culture , and this has had a profound resonance in our thinking . |
| 10 | There were still — at the end of the enlightened eighteenth century , that Age of Reason which matched itself against Athens — old women in Lamplugh who were convinced that you could be led to your death by a will-o'-the-wisp or terrified out of life by the fairies . |
| 11 | She steeled herself against him , ready for that devastating move when it eventually came . |
| 12 | On one occasion she threw herself against a glass display cabinet at Kensington Palace while on another she slashed at her wrists with a razor blade . |
| 13 | president of the College of Physicians , she defended herself against accusations of medical malpractice made by ‘ a malicious informant ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ I can visualize you three duelling many times till you inoculate yourselves against any trace of enmity . ’ |
| 15 | She pressed herself against the wall inches away from the door and used a piece of corroded piping at her feet to ease it open . |
| 16 | Her thighs pushed his legs apart and she pressed herself against him . |
| 17 | Pushing aside the imposed conventions , the restraints and inhibitions she 'd always accepted as right and proper , necessary even , she pressed herself against him . |
| 18 | She flattened herself against the end terrace wall and looked back . |
| 19 | She flattened herself against the door . |
| 20 | Gripping the leather straps provided , she settled herself against the supporting pole . |
| 21 | She rubbed herself against the base of a tree as a sign that she , too , had passed that way . |
| 22 | … should n't you protect yourself against the financial effects of a serious injury ? |
| 23 | Might it have happened that she met a horse drawn set on its way to day , and that she squeezed herself against the tunnel wall in a vain attempt to let it by without harm to herself ? |
| 24 | Obediently , she squeezed herself against a shelf . |
| 25 | It is even a good idea to hold on to congratulatory memos ( perhaps appended to slips telling you of pay increases ) or any other correspondence which might at some distant date help you to defend yourself against unfair criticisms of your capabilities . |
| 26 | When you protect yourself against German Measles , you 're protecting your unborn children . |
| 27 | When you protect yourself against German Measles , you 're protecting your unborn child . |
| 28 | She thought of Africa and its special ordeals with greedy excitement ; she set herself against its vast and glorious horizons . |
| 29 | ‘ Comment : When you make other people laugh , you defend yourself against them taking you too seriously . |
| 30 | How would he have felt , he sometimes asked himself , if he had married a woman who set herself against his ethnic origins ? |