Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once or twice they 'd had to sleep down there , though not often because Gloria said it was n't nice to be all pressed up against people you did n't know . |
| 2 | Richard Harris and Gene Hackman have been in Westerns before but never one as good as this ( indeed , Harris ' character 's inflation of his own pompous myth relates to the sham of his A Man Called Horse ) , which is a key to their characterisations and the way they are constantly stacked up against Eastwood . |
| 3 | She said nothing , but only arched back against the soft leather , lost in the tantalising , agonising pleasure of his hands — a pleasure that lit a fire deep inside her , but did nothing to quench it . |
| 4 | He got the pleasure of farming , and the losses were merely set off against er |
| 5 | Biddy 's gimlet eyes screwed into Nutty and travelled reflectively to the scowling Nails , nervous little Hoomey and Jazz in his rain-soggy turban , all lined up against the wall . |
| 6 | Although the Bank of England does not forbid them to do so , such stakes would have to be wholly written off against capital . |
| 7 | It was n't even in a fridge or nothing — it was just pressed up against the window to keep it cold . |
| 8 | In her letter to BR Mrs. Buttigieg asked why the registration number of her car was not checked out against the season ticket holders ' records . |
| 9 | And King Bucar and his people thought that the Cid dared not come out against them , and they were the more encouraged , and began to think of making bastilles and engines wherewith to combat the city , for certes they weened that the Cid Ruydiez dared not come out against them , seeing that he tarried so long . |
| 10 | And King Bucar and his people thought that the Cid dared not come out against them , and they were the more encouraged , and began to think of making bastilles and engines wherewith to combat the city , for certes they weened that the Cid Ruydiez dared not come out against them , seeing that he tarried so long . |
| 11 | The cost of that level of expansion ah were largely written off against revenue or a large part of against revenue with the effect that reduces the business to break even . |
| 12 | ‘ Ministers have not only not spoken out against this irresponsibility but now can not speak persuasively against these boardroom excesses because so many ex-Cabinet Ministers are themselves among the beneficiaries of these excesses , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Yet any comparison of British and foreign economic performance over the period since 1945 is soon brought up against the effects of different institutional forms . |
| 14 | The gauntlet thus thrown down against ideas and assumptions so widely current in the Christianity and theology of his own day was Kierkegaard 's great contribution . |
| 15 | But this is something else again , having socialist ideas is one thing , betraying your country another , people who do that have no rights at all , that 's my opinion , they ought to be just put up against a wall and shot . |
| 16 | We argued that Western rulers had finally taken out against Saddam not because he was a monster but because he had broken loose and was no longer their monster . |
| 17 | He had already stood out against the Board 's obstinacy by forcing out their version of the comparative costs between nuclear- and coal-powered electricity ( see Chapter Six ) . |
| 18 | And Pearce said : ‘ Villa are the strongest team I have ever come up against in League football . |
| 19 | That 's where the fuel tanks are located and though it seemed likely that the partial tearing away of the wing had also ruptured the fuel lines and spilled the fuel , there was no way of being sure and no one , again as far as I know , has ever come up against the problem of what happens when an oxyacetylene jet meets a fuel tank under water . |
| 20 | I do n't think I 've ever come up against sexism , except from in the classroom when the teacher to , the economics teacher tries to wind us up by saying women would should be chained to the kitchen sink ! |
| 21 | ‘ You could have fooled me ! ’ she muttered , and took a hefty swig of her drink as his face once more closed up against her . |
| 22 | When scientists attempt to unravel the mysteries of the past they always run up against a brick wall . |
| 23 | And if I might just come in on this thing that 's always thrown up against Mrs. Thatcher about her rejoice , she said rejoice when South Georgia had been retaken and the rejoice was because it appeared to have been done without any casualties — that was what she was rejoicing for , not the victory erm |
| 24 | ‘ The body probably caught up against it on its way downstream , ’ said Owen . |
| 25 | Many have thought it an objectionable feature of utilitarianism , in its classic formulations , that pleasure and pain are supposedly set off against each other in this simple way . |
| 26 | Many Christians can recognise secularism and have boldly stood up against it . |
| 27 | Ant has now backed up against a wall . ) |
| 28 | Cecilia eventually hit out against the home 's petty rules and forced the social workers to come up with an alternative . |
| 29 | But no warning could check Arthur Conway 's fury , and with a lightning leap he managed to grip the young man 's throat , and so fiercely that he forced him backwards , only the next moment to have his arms snapped downwards , when he would have fallen on his back if he had n't come up against the coalhouse wall and , unfortunately , a shovel that was propped there . |
| 30 | A decision by a customer to change a source of supply usually involves substantial fixed costs in setting up new systems of distribution and servicing which can not be immediately written off against lower supply prices . |