Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] against each " in BNC.
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| 1 | For there are other plates surrounding the Pacific Plate and they jostle and crash against each other , like ice floes at break-up time ; and as they jostle so they tide up against each other , pushing each other deeper , cracking and bending as they do so — only on a global scale , and with extraordinary consequences . |
| 2 | One person does n't wan na lose and the other one wants to win and is going to go backwards and forwards you just end up pushing and pushing and pushing against each other , pointless . |
| 3 | The other criteria I I I I tend to agree with are matters which are capable of being weighing and balancing against each other and they are not overriding , but I think those three matter which I specified are overriding and would rule out any location . |
| 4 | Clays , the product of chemical weathering , have very much smaller particles ( one particle of fine silt would make 1,000 particles of clay ) which are flat or plate-like in shape and lie against each other like sheets of glass , sticking tightly together as water is drawn between them . |
| 5 | In other words , national media of exchange are purchased and sold against each other by residents and non-residents . |
| 6 | A dead planet has atoms , molecules and larger lumps of matter , jostling and nestling against each other at random , according to the laws of physics . |
| 7 | The periods differ , so the buildings vibrate with different frequencies and slap against each other . |
| 8 | If you and a friend own the same game , you can often plug them together ( with the supplied cable ) and play against each other . |
| 9 | In your sleeping mind these images knock and scrape against each other , creating strange collages of familiar and distorted material . |
| 10 | Suppose that I am sitting by a bowl of fruit ; my hand hovers over a pear , then a peach catches my eye ; their distinctive favours revive in memory and pull against each other , then my hand moves over and picks out the peach . |
| 11 | Throughout , the emphasis is on constructing multiple alternative models , which can be explored and tested against each other . |
| 12 | They slip and slide against each other — somewhat ponderously , since they proceed at no more than a foot a year and sometimes a great deal less . |
| 13 | As it descends towards the mantle it melts ; thousands of deep-focus earthquakes are triggered as gobbets of molten rock screech and burst against each other ; the edge of the upper plate , meanwhile , contorts and rises tortured into the air , producing a range of soaring peaks . |