Example sentences of "[adv] run [adv prt] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In a man 's world you were forever running up against things . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | When scientists attempt to unravel the mysteries of the past they always run up against a brick wall . |
| 5 | He immediately set about making contacts , with Baron Grimm and other German expatriates ; but , as before , he quickly ran up against snobbery , xenophobia and intrigue . |
| 6 | Yet despite a steady growth in its audience , the HGO is now running up against some very hard economic realities . |
| 7 | In the sciences of course the possibility of pure objectivity has been a convenient and fruitful assumption , which has only recently run up against its limitations . |
| 8 | In this it occasionally ran up against other states with their own sense of destiny . |