Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] against a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , if Lenny Kravitz stands up against a wall with Slash , we 're there . |
| 2 | If your Big Boss ends up against an enemy character then the two will tend to cancel out . |
| 3 | If a victim brushes up against a tentacle , literally thousands of these tiny cells automatically fire , shooting out the sharp-tipped tubes like minute harpoons . |
| 4 | Today 's event should show if he has what is needed to take him to the top for he comes up against a very useful opponent in Sabin du Loir ( 1.15 ) . |
| 5 | Today 's event should show if he has what is needed to take him to the top for he comes up against a very useful opponent in Sabin du Loir ( 1.15 ) . |
| 6 | That such agreement underlies the working of the language game is likely to be overlooked until one comes up against a disagreement which it is difficult to regard as one of opinion . |
| 7 | The engineer who sets about designing an efficient sonar or radar device soon comes up against a problem resulting from the need to make the pulses extremely loud . |
| 8 | If one keeps traveling in a certain direction on the surface of the earth , one never comes up against an impassable barrier or falls over the edge , but eventually comes back to where one started . |
| 9 | What happens then is that faith runs up against an awkward question or a scornful dismissal , and suddenly everything that had seemed so unmistakably certain , meaningful , true , collapses like a balloon leaving the remnants of faith limp and deflated . |