Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] against the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shouted against the wall of white noise to three deaf backs . |
| 2 | And I came against the wall . |
| 3 | I put back so and then I put against the fence . |
| 4 | I played against the English nine times and they always had a very strong scrum . |
| 5 | We find ourselves swimming against the tide . |
| 6 | I stand against the railings and remain in one place to avoid the crap , and look upwards . |
| 7 | Every rime the blue light filled the block we saw ourselves silhouetted against the floor . |
| 8 | Ludo and I lean against the wall side by side as if we were doing press-ups standing up . |
| 9 | I lean against the window of the bus and watch the raindrops spatter down , just as I must have done when I was a kid . |
| 10 | I thump against the side of a carriage as it passes . |
| 11 | It 's because I leant against the wall at the end of the corridor and watched them . |
| 12 | Ken , would you say though that erm one or two recent announcements connected with these judgments , I think including the er the judge in a recent M C C case which actually went I think against the administrators , b on shares but actually the judge said if the argument had been made that er these assets were held er on a trustee basis , then I might have made a different decision . |
| 13 | I leaned against the window and watched the street below . |
| 14 | I leaned against the tree , sagging into it . |
| 15 | Staggering up , I leaned against the wall , panting and gasping , wondering how severely I was hit . |
| 16 | I leaned against the wail listening to Sally 's bad language and taking everything in . |
| 17 | As I crouched against the wall which offered some protection against the rain , the mortar team Corporal got up from the grass where he had been sitting and , crossing over to the small pile of H.E . |
| 18 | That I work against the Imam Khomeini — ’ |
| 19 | He now wants his heirs to be kings as well which goes against the witches prophecy of Banquo 's heirs being kings and not Macbeth 's . |
| 20 | Now clearly a teaching approach which goes against the grain of natural disposition will create needless difficulties for the learner , as I pointed out earlier in reference to translation and the focusing on form , but it does not follow that pedagogy must therefore simply accommodate that disposition . |
| 21 | Trevor Skeet struggled to make himself heard against the din . |
| 22 | Replace this seal ( the large seal which rubs against the chrome swivel ) and the universal joints in the front drive shafts and the problem should be solved . |
| 23 | Tracy is a cab driver who finds himself struggling against the power of the city 's corrupt taxi bosses . |
| 24 | Even more spectacular was the Liverpool affair of August 1775 which occurred against the background of the American War of Independence , the beginning of which had interrupted trade to such an extent that some 3,000 seamen were swelling the ranks of the normal Liverpool unemployed . |
| 25 | He wanted to undo the shining blue-black hair , to kiss the parted lips , to unfasten the high collar of her cheap black dress to find the exciting treasures beneath , to reveal the splendid breasts which strained against the cloth , to stroke them , to … |
| 26 | They now spontaneously assemble into rods which press against the membrane of the red blood cell deforming it from a rounded into a sickle shape . |
| 27 | The deal , which came against the background of rising tension between Hungary and neighbouring Romania , Serbia and Czechoslovakia , followed a recent agreement for the supply of Russian military spares and air-defence equipment to Hungary [ see p. 39200 ] . |
| 28 | There are genuine ways in which tests against the history of physics can support or discredit Lakatos 's methodology . |
| 29 | Thus , they claim a climate of uncertainty is created which militates against the decision-taking ability of firms . |
| 30 | Mrs Thatcher sees nothing in the single market which cuts against the grain of her policies over the past decade , since it should promote the free enterprise culture within the EC . |