Example sentences of "down against " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael , the second of three tennis playing brothers , took the 21 and under title with a powerful 6–3 6–3 victory over Graham Hobbs ( Dorset ) : whilst younger brother Craig , fought back from one set down against James Lake ( Lincs ) to win the 12 and under title 4–6 6–2 6–1 . |
| 2 | But right-wing delegations , such as the AEU engineering union , came down against any ‘ segregated ’ affiliate . |
| 3 | One down against Jan Timman , with three left to play , he was looking for a solid advantage with the white pieces . |
| 4 | A koka down against East Germany 's Torsten Brechot , who threw Neil Adams in the 1988 Olympics , he gained a yuko ( five points ) with a rolling sacrifice throw three seconds from time . |
| 5 | Faldo , who has never won this championship , went into lunch one hole down against Frost who had a 66 to a 67 . |
| 6 | He suspects that a black mark went firmly down against his name for turning down the job and when he was later asked to become personnel manager for that division of ICI he was left in no doubt that it was an offer he should not refuse . |
| 7 | Martin came from two games down against his fellow Australian Chris Robertson . |
| 8 | Glass maker Pilkington yesterday bit the bullet over the Latin variety yesterday , taking a £4.4million write down against its Argentinian assets . |
| 9 | Glass maker Pilkington yesterday bit the bullet over the Latin variety yesterday , taking a £4.4million write down against its Argentinian assets . |
| 10 | But the dollar 's weight , 21.9% , was double what it would have been on a purely trade-weighted basis , so its slide between 1985 and 1990 dragged the krona down against ERM currencies . |
| 11 | It says … , ’ he held the fluttering sheet of foolscap firmly to the table , … we have to lie down against an inner wall — under the table if possible . |
| 12 | This would move up or ( at the moment ) down against the mark . |
| 13 | You 've depreciated recently , gone down against sterling . ’ |
| 14 | The men wore rubber ponchos and had exchanged their black berets for jungle hats pulled well down against the rain so that he was unable to discern whether Miguelito was amongst their number . |
| 15 | He pumped a shot into the breech and laid the gun on the portside cockpit settee , covering it with his shirt weighted down against the wind with the coiled stern line . |
| 16 | Often , when I was cycling through the camp after coming off duty , I would spy Thursby in the distance beavering along , head down against the gale , full of eagerness to get back on the job and spot any mistakes we had made during his absence . |
| 17 | They sat down against the summerhouse wall and talked of each others activities over the last nine years . |
| 18 | Haslemere took time to settle down against a predominantly young side , obviously well coached and organised . |
| 19 | And as the dhāmis dance in the sunshine , the tiers of yellow garlands collide with that hair and bounce up and down against their white tunics . |
| 20 | Cator engaged to pay them £10,000 down against a bond for treble that amount , £30,000 , which the holder of the bond would be paid when ‘ a certain event ’ took place — the death of the king and the succession of any one of the three royal borrowers . |
| 21 | This view represents the actual foil pattern layout and is the side which will be placed down against the UV light source . |
| 22 | But I find myself coming down against its styling ( subjective , I know ) and awkward control layout ( still somewhat subjective , but two people here reckon they would trap their little fingers between the switch and volume control ) . |
| 23 | Jones was the unsung hero behind Wycombe 's thrilling comeback from 2-0 down against Ossie Ardiles ' side at Adams Park nine days ago . |
| 24 | Sedgemore , 27 , who packs down against Maesteg in the fourth round of the Swalec Cup at the Arms Park tomorrow , works underground at Tower Colliery , Hirwaun . |
| 25 | If you were to script this sequence , these are the size descriptions that you would write down against each of the shots . |
| 26 | The pound lost over two cents against the dollar at $1.52 and was down against the mark . |
| 27 | Their front row trio , Johann Styger , Willie Hills and Keith Andrews , admitted that they had prepared on the basis that they would scrum down against the most successful England unit in history . |
| 28 | The pound slipped against the German mark and closed nearly six cents down against the US dollar . |
| 29 | Ferguson admitted : ‘ We showed a wee bit of nervousness in the first half , the sort of anxieties that were there when we were three down against Everton . ’ |
| 30 | The gauntlet thus thrown down against ideas and assumptions so widely current in the Christianity and theology of his own day was Kierkegaard 's great contribution . |