Example sentences of "[pers pn] came [adv prt] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | I trained hard all last winter and in one race I came up against a black who I knew had n't prepared properly . |
| 2 | The first time I came up against a woman comandante … |
| 3 | ‘ Childbirth ’ our local priest called it , but I did n't really understand what he was on about until several years later when I came up against the problem again . |
| 4 | ‘ You came up against outdoor players , many of them farmers who would simply barrel you backwards in the tight and , if they got to you , in the loose . ’ |
| 5 | But when she came up against Australia 's Michelle Jaggard , a more experienced player but by no means a world-beater , she struggled even to get a game . |
| 6 | She came up against the unsolved riddle with a horrible jerk . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps she did , and when she came up against a brick wall she turned to me . |
| 8 | She backed away , one hand raised to ward him off , stopping abruptly as she came up against the edge of the table . |
| 9 | We came up against official incompetence as soon as we arrived in Spain . |
| 10 | It is not easy to decide how best to tackle these questions , and the difficulties that we came up against in discussing the problem of individuation of particulars partly explain why . |
| 11 | So if if the cadres had taken the law and 's speech there should n't 've been the sorts of problems that , that we came up against . |
| 12 | Hastening round the keep they came up against unexpected obstruction . |
| 13 | As soon as any efforts to form national unions were made , they came up against the imbalance between Glasgow and the rest of the country . ’ |
| 14 | Glennon was a similar height and build to Edwards and in 1987 had to face a similar height problem when he came up against England 's Dave Cusani . |
| 15 | Donald was in full cry but he came up against a rejuvenated Kapil Dev . |
| 16 | He had been a detective since he was twenty-five and , although unorthodox in his methods , had waged a successful war against the criminals he came up against . |
| 17 | During his brave and daring life he came up against many dangers , none so well remembered and retold as the story of how he was saved from death at the hands of the Red Indians by Pocohontas , daughter of Chief Powhattan . |
| 18 | He 's being ironic ; in the Navy he came up against arbitrary discipline , the officer class and the English . |
| 19 | Perhaps he came up against the Edwardian equivalent of a conservation lobby . |
| 20 | You saw that when he came on against Scotland . |
| 21 | Later that month , the Archbishop of Tuam delivered a sermon in which he came out against the mining . |
| 22 | It came down against the crash barrier . |