Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv prt] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the snakes topples head over heels , inadvertently banging up against Laverne 's calf muscle . |
| 2 | ‘ The evidence is just piling up against him , ’ he said with glee . |
| 3 | For one thing , she discovered that her conscience was at fault over Jewish persecution and she blamed herself for not coming out against such cruelty earlier . |
| 4 | Now Marc Alexander Vila moved closer , and she found herself surreptitiously pressing back against the stone wall of the turret room she and Peter had been allotted , trying to pretend she did n't care while her breath went ragged with apprehension . |
| 5 | In a man 's world you were forever running up against things . |
| 6 | I was always running up against her and being told that I had a shoelace undone , or my buttons needed polishing , or my hair was touching my collar , Airwoman ! |
| 7 | The dispute was being regarded as a trial of strength by the labour movement ( in a nationwide context of increased union militancy ) and the solidarity of all the trades in the printing industry impressed the employers still standing out against the men 's memorial . |
| 8 | Yet despite a steady growth in its audience , the HGO is now running up against some very hard economic realities . |
| 9 | Many of the canvases produced in the later part of 1906 constitute what might be called a ‘ crisis ’ point in Picasso 's art in that he was becoming increasingly obsessed with creating figures which were heavily volumetric , indeed often almost grotesquely bulky , but which simultaneously adhered or clung to the picture plane : the effect they produce could best be described by imagining a series of pneumatic models pushed up against heavy panes of glass and pumped up with air , so that they get larger and larger whilst simultaneously flattening up against the surface in front of them . |
| 10 | Gen. Saulo Ramos was appointed Minister of Justice on Aug. 7 , 1989 , replacing Oscar Dias Corrêa , who had resigned on Aug. 1 after frequently speaking out against mismanagement of the economy and corruption in the administration . |