Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv prt] against " in BNC.

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1 I mean there is it 's not right up against somebody else 's house .
2 However , this pastoral mission is not only up against hardened heathens , but it also considers that some ought not even to be read the lesson .
3 He 's not only up against the ghost of Simon Ellis , he 's paying this other man 's bill .
4 These are just straight up against the metal .
5 There were many sittings at Freud 's studio in Delamere Terrace , during which the artist , for the purposes of intimate study , sat almost right up against his subject .
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