Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] against the " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ There are people who are ‘ smokers and proud of it ’ who are coming up against the trend that the rest of society wants to see . ’ |
| 32 | At every turn workers found themselves coming up against the State . |
| 33 | To the extent that these may appear antithetical to modernism , not only in practice but also in theory , then we may find ourselves running up against the limits of our modernist frameworks of understanding . |
| 34 | The knife clattered to the floor , and he threw in a right-hook to the jaw that sent the man reeling back against the counter , gasping , ‘ Pick it up , Mike — quick ! ’ |
| 35 | The shock and force of it sent her reeling back against the wall once more . |
| 36 | That 's my ambition to be roaring in against the Aussies next year . |
| 37 | Some of these recordings are now being used by the YCCC as evidence in the legal actions which they are taking out against the city and tannery , and some of the recordings have been played back to other community groups in similar situations but who have not developed their thinking to the extent of the YCCC . |
| 38 | Luke groaned , dropping back against the pillows and closing his eyes . |
| 39 | Masked by the apparently careless tumble of examples ( ‘ etc. , etc. ’ ) is a calculated insistence on the sore spot , on what Shatov in the notebooks calls social unsteadiness , a small but virulent secular profanity standing over against the noble , perhaps the noblest sequence in The Possessed , where Marie Shatov returns to her husband to give birth to another man 's child . |
| 40 | The enemy was the more usual butt of filmmakers ' criticism , particularly in comedies which showed warm-hearted , slightly muddled Englishmen winning through against the demon aggressors . |
| 41 | On the pasture near-by Hazel could see scattered , russet-and-orange-coloured fragments , some with feathery , light-green foliage showing up against the darker grass . |
| 42 | Gilbert and Frye were standing up against the glass panes of the reception area , staring out into the storm-ravaged night . |
| 43 | Groups such as Families Against Intimidation and Terror , the Newry hostage support group , Enough is Enough , the Peace Train Movement and New Consensus in Northern Ireland are standing up against the people of violence so as to ensure that there is another approach and a different tactic . |
| 44 | She standing up against the racial stereotype with purple hair . |
| 45 | I waded along to Harry who was sagging back against the corner , his head lolling only just above the surface . |
| 46 | I was fighting back against the cancer by diet , relaxation , visualization and hugging a Populus alba , but I needed even more . |
| 47 | A vote for Labour is a class vote and a barometer of how confident workers are in fighting back against the system of which Blackburn talks . |
| 48 | The British people are fighting back against the shoddy treatment with which we have put up for so long . |
| 49 | Slumping back against the wall , she said wearily , ‘ Oh , I do n't know ! |
| 50 | And neither am I ! ’ he growled , moving threateningly towards her , so that Robyn found herself retreating back against the wall . |
| 51 | The lyric is not generically debarred from standing out against the state , or from taking a generous interest in what goes on in the world . |
| 52 | This is particularly the case when as here , they are preserved in dark shales , the white calcite of the animal 's skeleton standing out against the background . |
| 53 | It was a large split-level home , with unexpected staircases going , it seemed , in all directions , their wrought-iron banisters standing out against the pale-yellow broadloom which covered both stairs and floors throughout the house . |
| 54 | Bertrand Russell , who took over the chairmanship of the NCF when Allen was jailed , later remarked : ‘ In some men the habit of standing out against the herd had become so ingrained that they could not co-operate with anybody about anything . ’ |
| 55 | Even while Dick was lowering Martin to the ground , he had his head turned in the direction of the dark blur standing out against the night and it was only a matter of seconds before he raised himself and his gun towards it . |
| 56 | The dispute was being regarded as a trial of strength by the labour movement ( in a nationwide context of increased union militancy ) and the solidarity of all the trades in the printing industry impressed the employers still standing out against the men 's memorial . |
| 57 | It 's the nicest site around and from the surrounding countryside you 'd have seen the white mounds of the burial sites standing out against the sky , right against the heavens |
| 58 | It was of the two of us leaning up against the Arch of Titus in Rome — we had bullied some fellow tourist into taking it for us . |
| 59 | ‘ Afternoon , all , ’ said Jackie Tiptoe , leaning up against the cotton bale and grinning his sunniest grin . |
| 60 | One night there was a little backdrop of a painted garden , and in front of it two new boys were doing a strip routine to the original ‘ Let's Stay Together ’ ; but then they got carried away and ended up just leaning against the wall together , leaning up against the painted flowerbeds and the little painted bridge , just kissing and making love right there , for at least forty minutes , nobody minded . |