Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] against the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presently Miriam entered the room and found him , half dressed , sitting on his bed with his head resting wearily against the pillows . |
| 2 | It was the strain — deep down she knew — the strain of finding herself in this diabolical situation , the strain of being alone here , like this , with his contempt and superiority , struggling constantly against the physical awareness of him , the electricity that his presence produced . |
| 3 | So he looked at Matron , tight-faced and armored in starch , at Miss Guttner sitting lumpishly beyond her , her glasses shining blankly as they picked up the overhead light that filled the room with a necessary illumination against the heaviness of the sky pressing grayly against the windows . |
| 4 | Chuck Sherman , who had noticed the excited gleam in his young brother 's eyes , grinned and punched him affectionately on the arm as he took the binoculars , but before he could lift them to his eyes a tumult of shouting and screaming broke out suddenly among the throng of Chinese pressing up against the iron grille below them . |
| 5 | He was close , his powerful , bare chest pressing up against the towelling of her robe ; she could almost feel the anger pumping around his body . |
| 6 | Now Marc Alexander Vila moved closer , and she found herself surreptitiously pressing back against the stone wall of the turret room she and Peter had been allotted , trying to pretend she did n't care while her breath went ragged with apprehension . |
| 7 | His penis was pressing hard against the inside of the fly , bent , desperate to escape and straighten . |
| 8 | The Church is rowing hard against the mounting waves and winds of persecution and opposition , but is making little headway . |
| 9 | The second bullet followed almost immediately , this time in front of her , and she had to fling herself the last few feet , landing heavily against the side of the corrugated iron door . |
| 10 | ‘ Australia , ’ he sobbed , forehead cracking forward against the pane . |
| 11 | Robyn swallowed and took a hasty pace backwards , struggling desperately against the compelling strength of his gaze , the overwhelming male sexuality that exuded from him . |
| 12 | Golden and silver Orfes enjoy leaping for flies in the cool of the evening or else swimming vigorously against the flow of water from a waterfall . |
| 13 | She pulled open the bathroom door and hurried through the atrium , her heels tapping swiftly against the mosaic floor . |
| 14 | Lazing on a gleaming deck , the water lapping gently against the side is like a lullaby and I manage only 15 pages of Frederick Forsyth before succumbing to the pleasures of a hot Ontario sun . |
| 15 | He took them out , stopped and stared up at the ravens cawing raucously against the blue sky . |
| 16 | We climbed down to his fishing boat and were pushing off against the stonework . |
| 17 | But at last she was back in her room , and sinking back against the closed door in a grief that was too deep for tears . |
| 18 | He hit the sea in a shallow dive , swimming out against the wind . |
| 19 | Outside I could hear rain falling upon the fire-escape and bouncing back against the window . |
| 20 | The fingers of one hand were tapping frenziedly against the palm of the other , as if all the excitement in his body had to be expressed through the movements of one set of digits . |
| 21 | The January reso1ution of the Communist Party Central Committee in 1932 criticized " Left and Right sectarianism " within the Party , warning particularly against the dangers of Trotskyism . |
| 22 | The tide was high but on the turn , lapping sluggishly against the rocks at the river 's edge . |
| 23 | We are pushing hard against the limit ’ . |
| 24 | This is a quiet coup for the Association of District Councils , which has been lobbying hard against the counties ever since the districts lost power to the counties in the 1974 reforms . |
| 25 | Piper was cowering abjectly against the far wall , her face streaming with tears . |
| 26 | Swimming defiantly against the tides of the times , Moonshake place much emphasis on their lyrics and thus run the risk of being seen as old-fashioned . |
| 27 | SIR — I agree with George Walden that David Mellor should beware acting hastily against the BBC for its election coverage ( article , April 13 ) . |
| 28 | Pulling together against the tide . |
| 29 | Lennox also hit back at critics , who claim he should have avoided the dangerous Ruddock and hidden himself away for a world title shot , snapping : ‘ I know the British fight fans will respect me for going in against the best instead of facing an easy touch . |
| 30 | Edward , in bed one day with a clever country girl rebelling deliciously against the perceived repressions of her class , learned between kisses that Sir Joseph Ball — a former MI5 man who now led the Conservative Party 's organizational machine — had used his old position to tap Churchill 's phone for Chamberlain and monitor his associates . |