Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [adv prt] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | She swam in what she hoped was the direction of the stairs , only to come up against a wall . |
| 2 | Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes play off against each other in a comedic buddy movie about two hustlers who team up to cream money off LA 's kerb-side courts , only to run up against problems with girls ( Rosie Perez , Tyra Ferrell ) and gangsters . |
| 3 | The architect , Bogdan Bogdanovic , whose entire career has been devoted to the tragic commemoration of war victims , is one of the very few Serbians brave enough to speak out against the current Serbian aggression . |
| 4 | And what do you do when to come up against a brick wall ? |
| 5 | The vendor 's company may be able to carry earlier losses forward to set off against the gain or if the capital assets were bought by the company only within the past few years , it is possible that there may be a loss rather than a gain . |
| 6 | Mick was drilling , he put the framework round to drill up against |