Example sentences of "[vb base] it [adv prt] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | Put it up against the radiator . |
| 2 | You can take your time , touch the material , hold it up against you , take it to the door and look at it . |
| 3 | The first pad , if you hold it up against any of the other pads , you 'll see that it 's actually slightly shorter . |
| 4 | Set it up against the window , he wrote . |
| 5 | This has the effect that the bank will be unable to combine that account or set it off against any amounts owed to the bank by the SFA member firm and , in the event of the insolvency of the SFA member firm , the funds in the account will not pass to the liquidator but will remain subject to the trust in favour of the clients contributing the money . |
| 6 | and lean it up against the garden shed , you know what I mean ? |
| 7 | You know how you poke your nose against wire netting and push it up against an apple tree , but you still ca n't bite the bark because of the wire . |
| 8 | So Gough , who had a brilliant European Championship , has to sit on the bench with Roxburgh and sweat it out against Portugal in a match the Scots have to win . |