Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [adv prt] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Not bad — not bad at all , " replied Joseph hurriedly and he tried to lean back against the cushions in the same careless fashion as his brother while the two rickshaws rolled on together side by side through the light traffic . |
| 2 | Suddenly the entire class seemed to rise up against the Headmistress . |
| 3 | But North Korea threatened to hit back against any sanctions . |
| 4 | Mr Morton , speaking after the launch in America of an updated version of his book , said : ‘ A campaign began to build up against Diana that she was mad and mentally unstable , that she was somehow bending reality , did n't tell the truth and that she was in some way responsible for this book . ’ |
| 5 | Disquiet at the new direction of religious affairs soon surfaced in parliament , and over the next few years a growing number of MPs began to speak out against the Arminian threat . |
| 6 | He destroyed Yorkshire 's second innings at Guildford with six for 40 last year but struggled to break through against Gloucestershire in a drawn match at Cheltenham in 1990 . |
| 7 | She liked to snuggle up against Bill 's legs by the fire . |
| 8 | just as Peter Slade had to stand up against a tradition of formalised children 's drama , so Brian Way had to educate teachers into understanding that children deserved something better than light entertainment . |
| 9 | He also criticizes other ministers and Parliament in general who failed to speak out against these developments . |
| 10 | Apart from the 24–21 loss of the First Test , all the members tended to stack up against Ireland during their eight-match tour of New Zealand . |