Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] against [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LEICESTER went into the match against Charlton hoping to equal the best winning run in the club 's history … but they were up against their bogey club for the past two years . |
| 2 | " There was one very difficult principle that we were up against which I did not really know about to start with … that in accordance with the general surrender everyone was supposed to surrender to the Allied Army against whom they had been fighting . |
| 3 | To go one down with nine minutes remaining and with only 10 men , we were up against it . ’ |
| 4 | Oxford were up against it now … |
| 5 | ‘ Linfield were drawn against a better team than the one we defeated — and I know from playing in Cyprus with Shamrock Rovers a few years back that Bangor were up against it , too . |
| 6 | ‘ Linfield were drawn against a better team than the one we defeated — and I know from playing in Cyprus with Shamrock Rovers a few years back that Bangor were up against it , too . |
| 7 | At the Pitztal FIS downhill , which was held on a high glacier , we were up against none other than Peter Mueller , on the road back from last season 's devastating knee injury . |
| 8 | Well he was up against me and he knew it . |
| 9 | His body was up against hers , close and strong and totally in control . |
| 10 | Winterbottom played , even though he was up against his England mate , Mike Teague . |
| 11 | In spite of this galaxy of stars and performing dugs and the like , the Theatre with a capital ‘ T ’ was up against it , which does n't mean the wall of the Theatre next door . |
| 12 | Rose was up against it . |