Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [adv prt] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kirov sighed deeply , appearing to give in against his will . |
| 2 | During a jazzy quartet for the women , the company 's shambling clown is dangerously over-excited by one dancer 's leggy prowess , attempting to nuzzle up against her or to initiate a wildly mismatched pas de deux . |
| 3 | I love playing against them because you never know quite what you 're going to come up against ’ . |
| 4 | But sooner or later you 're going to come up against something unpleasant that you do n't really want to think about , and you 'll end up feeling outraged and impotent and guilty … |
| 5 | One of these days Sam is going to come up against a good old time proper door . |
| 6 | May I suggest to you at least it makes sense to start to see what problems you are going to come up against |
| 7 | If our dear departed were not going to speak out against the Berlin talks as seemed altogether likely suppose — I must say suppose — that some deranged mind decided to eliminate him under the guise of a Muscovite attempt on the dear Praident ? |
| 8 | The new outlook we have been outlining as coming to stand over against Christian orthodoxy was by no means necessarily irreligious or anti-religious . |
| 9 | The root of the East German church 's involvement lies in the agonising sense of guilt and self-accusation among many clergy during and after the Second World War for not having spoken out against the Nazis in time . |
| 10 | Having scraped through against Ballymoney in the first round , the Bannsiders proceeded to shock everyone by doing the same to the Ports and Glens . |
| 11 | He was sitting propped up against the side of the snack kiosk , head on his chest , eye shut . |
| 12 | He was sitting propped up against the end of the bed with his back to the wall , still fully dressed . |
| 13 | She was sitting turned in against his chest , and he rode with one arm around her , supporting her . |
| 14 | The same with Bartolini pickups , they work best with Bartolini circuits , so that 's brought back into service a couple of basses that were sitting leaning up against a wall in my house . ’ |
| 15 | However , the conception we have just been briefly outlining came up against a number of philosophical difficulties . |
| 16 | EUROPE 'S three largest data-processing firms are planning to fight back against national research programmes that companies in Japan and the US are running . |