Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adv prt] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You see what I 'm up against ? ’ she appealed . |
| 2 | I 'm up against the six footer , and a five foot ten wife |
| 3 | ‘ You can see what I 'm up against . |
| 4 | The little girl dissolved into giggles , and Mr Jarvis , shrugging helplessly , said ruefully , ‘ See what I 'm up against ? |
| 5 | You see what what I 'm up against is , I mean the physio who , who , I mean she 's private of course |
| 6 | There at least there was no talk of boyfriends ; there at least one or two people valued me ; and there , at the very least , I knew what I was up against . |
| 7 | But I was up against a big , strong lad called Eddie Evans in the Canada game and that was very hard work . |
| 8 | You 'll then have some ideas of what I was up against . |
| 9 | I was up against the wall and unable to obey my first instinct . |
| 10 | It is also worth mentioning three sets of existing attitudes which have to be overcome because it is always wise to know what you are up against . |
| 11 | J.B. Well again you see you 're up against tradition all the time , are n't you ? |
| 12 | ‘ When you 've got nothing except just your bare life and you 're up against destiny or death . |
| 13 | When you 're up against your Fortune , whether it goes for or against you . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ So what , exactly , do you think you 're up against now ? ’ |
| 15 | From a black perspective you 're up against a white power structure and it does n't really matter whether you 're being beaten up or abused by the police or by a group of kids on the street , it all comes down to the same thing — racism . |
| 16 | You see what you 're what you 're up against . |
| 17 | It does n't matter what you 're up against , who 's being unfair or where the financial and emotional pressure is coming from this week . |
| 18 | But it 's different when you 're up against it , different when you 're spiritually sick . |
| 19 | " You say you 're up against a brick wall — well , that 's just where we got to in the Southwark Bridge case . |
| 20 | you 're up against the power relationship that each patient is caught up in with their consultant . |
| 21 | You 're up against the factory conveyor belt system of sewing when you , one person does only ears and the other does bodies and |
| 22 | They thought it was best to know what you were up against , but Preston was n't sure it had done them a lot of good in the long run . |
| 23 | We were told not to do a thing , if we did it well you , you knew what you were up against . |
| 24 | Trisha has won an Oxford in Bloom prize every year since 1985 … this year she 's up against her neighbour in the all-winners category . |
| 25 | Some indication of what she 's up against ? |
| 26 | Pat has got a second class going , for the elderly at the Newquay Day Centre ( where she is up against a simultaneously running Bingo session ) , and would now like to introduce a recreational and/or breathing class to her locality . |
| 27 | She got up early to muck him out and groom him and exercise him , and she babysat nearly every evening to keep him in good oats ( not Uncle Knacker 's ) and shoes , and when she saw the riders she was up against in the collecting ring , with their adoring parents and their fat cheque-books , it just made her all the more determined to beat them , because determination was all she had . |
| 28 | ‘ We are up against a substantial amount of red tape , ’ O'Donovan said . |
| 29 | The water authority responded with its case : ‘ We are up against a lot of pressure from landowners to do something about the flooding . ’ |
| 30 | We still do n't know what it is we are up against , do we ? ’ |