Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adv prt] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was outside rather than inside the Cortes that a conservative opposition built up against the liberals and by 1811 the unity of patriotic reformism was broken . |
| 2 | At least they did not encounter what the builders of the Moscow Underground came up against many years later , a quicksand in their path . |
| 3 | Rachaela looked out at the dusk on the snow street , and the snow piled up against the walls , the pedestrians slipping and sidling along the ice . |
| 4 | Johnson 's , I was soon to learn , was typical of other South Seas stores — more like a warehouse than a shop , with new lines that had just arrived by boat piled up against the shelves of the barn-like building . |
| 5 | Bonanza lounged back against the seat . |
| 6 | When the Catholic archbishop came out against Noriega , and fatwahs against him were read out in church , the church services in the middle class suburbs turned into political demonstrations against the regime . |
| 7 | On all sides : the abolitionists , the retentionists , and the abstainers , the vote was recognized as a momentous one in which the consciences of Members of Parliament came up against a profound issue transcending party politics . |
| 8 | More bangs from the rear of the house , the door through to the kitchen slammed back against the wall , the room filled with soldiers , and in the wrecked doorway a tall , slim officer was making a small ceremony of ushering in a man with long grey hair and a black coat . |
| 9 | A ripple of crowd laughter came up against the breeze from the direction of the main grandstands . |
| 10 | When a right-wing revolt broke out against the newly-elected president portes Gil , the Communists , who were highly influential with the peasant Leagues , instructed them to fight on behalf of the government to help quell the uprising . |
| 11 | Adam leaned down and stroked the pale ginger fur ; the cat curled up against his feet and went to sleep . |
| 12 | When the child shrank back against the edge of the bed and made no attempt to climb up on to the mattress , Aggie put a hand to her head before muttering , ‘ I 'm sorry . |
| 13 | Downstream an ancient felucca lay in against the bank , its hull the colour of granite . |
| 14 | There are great dangers in the royal family speaking out because I have a memory of the nineteen seventy nine , just prior to the devolution bill in the referendum in Scotland , when the Queen spoke out against devolution , now she in , in effect denied a large number of Scots the opportunity to have some sort of Scottish Parliament based here , and we probably would n't , I think , be debating this subject today , if in fact we 'd got that eleven years ago . |
| 15 | The little girl leaned back against her mother 's knee , staring at Carolyn . |
| 16 | Then a series of keratophyres were extruded on top of the spilites and weathered into rounded hills with detrital pyritous sand banked up against them . |
| 17 | Corbett had never seen such evil in someone so small : black hair slicked back against the head like the ears of a wet rat ; tiny , soulless eyes and a face as twisted and as sour as a rotten apple . |
| 18 | Two years later the regent came up against more visible opposition . |
| 19 | Only a part of the regular team turned out against Northampton , Bristol and Saracens , but I am sure that they will all appear in the Pilkington Cup Final . |
| 20 | And then he felt Rose 's warm body pressed up against his . |
| 21 | The sound of the gun silenced the Chinese for a few seconds , then a lone woman 's voice began wailing again and the Shermans saw a thin ragged body forced up against the underside of the grille . |
| 22 | Room 44 is a simple storage room , which has mouldering old linen , brittle and useless wicker baskets , and some lumber piled up against the west wall . |
| 23 | He struck me hard across the mouth so that my head cracked back against the bathroom wall . |
| 24 | And with a mass of highly critical evidence built up against him , chief executive Venables faces a mammoth task in trying to persuade the court he should be allowed to stay on the board despite his sacking on May 14 . |
| 25 | Opaque white mist pressed up against the glass , obscuring the outside world , and it was born on her how silent it seemed . |
| 26 | She spotted Nahum Morey in his rented pew , his legs outstretched and his head tipped back against the wood as if he were concentrating on the sermon 's message , but she was suddenly aware that their eyes were meeting . |
| 27 | Her head fell back against the chair and she fainted . |
| 28 | Sheila 's head tilted back against the rough bark to receive his first kiss . |
| 29 | He was sitting in the deckchair Candy had vacated by the time she returned , and for a second she thought he had fallen asleep , his head tilted back against the wooden spar of the chair , his eyes closed , their long black lashes casting shadows on his cheeks . |
| 30 | The quarrel spread to Seville and Cadiz , where the friends of Romana and Palafox were the bitterest opponents of the Central Junta 's claims and were intriguing for an amenable Regency or a military government based on popular feeling whipped up against the Junta . |