Example sentences of "[vb past] it against the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole company — all but for Colley the Mason — was ranged round the chapel when she banged shut the door and bolted it against the mob . |
| 2 | A return to Cornwall after seven years eventually opened the way to a conversion in which Bray 's family past reasserted itself against his recent deviations , and , without transforming his personality , reinforced it against the mental weaknesses to which his sister succumbed . |
| 3 | He had a hammer and banged it against the walls to restore order but nobody took any notice of him . |
| 4 | O'Hara rode his motor-cycle to the Pier Head and parked it against the granite bollards at the entrance to the Albert Dock . |
| 5 | Her father was a magician ; he knew something of the old magic , but he turned it against the little people to whom it belonged , and demanded their money , their livestock and even their children to appease the gods with rivers of blood . |
| 6 | Murdoch immediately relaunched it as a tabloid and turned it against the flagship of its previous owners . |
| 7 | The Midland kept its own account at the Bank and used the Bank 's notes instead of its own ; this protected it against the effects of Sir Robert Peel 's clampdown on note issuing in 1844 . |
| 8 | He grunted a little as I rested it against the arm of the chair , but did n't wake . |
| 9 | At this point Darrel snatched the child from her arms , strode to the open fireplace , pressed it against the blazing logs with his riding boot and held it there until no more sound came from its tiny body . |
| 10 | My hand holding the receiver was shaking ; I pressed it against the corner of a door to stabilize it . |
| 11 | He had stared at the bottle in his hand , walked outside , smashed it against the outhouse wall , watched the liquor run down , dark against the brickwork , and returned to the house , almost reeled past Matey as though he had drunk all of it , and mounted the stairs to her room to remind himself of what he had lost , hurt though it might . |
| 12 | It kept him company on Once Hill and as he pushed the bicycle into the garage and leant it against the Suffolk Punch . |
| 13 | He dropped a long , searching kiss on her mouth , then took her shaking hand and laid it against the powerful , overpowering size of his arousal . |
| 14 | The priest took the basin of blood and spattered it against the altar . |
| 15 | She whispered it against the warmth of his neck and he released one hand to spear his fingers in her hair and tilt her face to his . |
| 16 | He dropped his pack , unbuckled his sword and propped it against the wall , then turned to rake Isabel with eyes as sharp as the wicked-looking blade behind him . |
| 17 | Light was fading as she wheeled her cycle around the side of their semi-detached house in Yonder , and propped it against the fence . |
| 18 | [ 2 ] He took all his pain and what was left of his strength and his long-gone pride and he put it against the fish 's agony and the fish came over onto his side and swam gently on his side , his bill almost touching the planking of the skiff , and started to pass the boat , long , deep , wide , silver and barred with purple and interminable in the water . |
| 19 | After , after the years of hardship and loss and then ev everything came as a relief , course we were still at war with the Japanese and people were still in Burma , our soldiers were still in Burma fighting the Japanese , but having said that the main issue was over and it was n't long after the Americans dropped the atomic bomb and of course , I always thought they had to really or else the Japanese would still be fighting now the er they had special dances in the Town Hall for the V E Day and the Americans who did a a jitterbug contest and er I always remember my friend and his sister , who was English , they actually won it against the Yanks he er |
| 20 | Hunt more than earned his championship : he earned it against the envy of some and the bloody-mindedness of others . |
| 21 | It was made by the furious last sweep of his indestructible sword Durandal , when he struck it against the rock in a vain effort to break it and so stop this epic weapon from falling into the hands of the Saracens : |
| 22 | The rain came suddenly and a hot wind , as if someone had opened a furnace door , hurled it against the car . |
| 23 | He suddenly grabbed the beer can and hurled it against the wall then upturned the table , sending it crashing against the cooker . |
| 24 | Aggie did not rest the hand-cart and open the gate but , giving it a hard thrust , she pushed it against the iron work and the gate swung open and into a large yard all of forty feet square , the further half of which was surprisingly paved with flags . |
| 25 | Somehow he had pulled free the phosphorus grenade , detonating it as he held it against the stinking flesh of the mercifully unseen horror that was ripping him apart . |