Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] against the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He swallowed hard and ran to the back door , pressing himself against the wall beside it . |
| 2 | Pressing himself against the wall he looked down at the body . |
| 3 | Bent almost double , he darted towards the kitchen , pressing himself against the wall . |
| 4 | Throughout it all , he keenly defends himself against the propaganda with which the minders assigned to foreign journalists bombard him . |
| 5 | This acquisition of competence can be seen as one way the worker defends himself against the control exercised over him by management . |
| 6 | It 's changed partly because Stalin 's er strategy in China has been shown to be a disaster and Stalin is trying to cover his tracks and most effective way of protecting himself against the criticism and the unpopularity which is likely to come from the failure is by insisting that the strategy was right all along and the revolution is about to triumph . |
| 7 | The Roman Catholic Church pronounced itself against the coup while conceding that " effective action " was needed to eradicate terrorism , drug-trafficking and corruption . |
| 8 | She cringed back from him , pressing herself against the stove , wondering if she could edge past and make for the door . |
| 9 | It sounded like footsteps , followed by a sliding noise , as of someone pressing themselves against the wall and sitting down . |
| 10 | They were all young , all the artists of Montparnasse , all talented to a greater or lesser degree , all bravely pitting themselves against the indifference of the public . |
| 11 | He was inclined to feel giddy , too , and was obliged to support himself against the parapet in order to steady his troubled vision . |
| 12 | Releasing the cannon from stowage and moving it forward was reminiscent of preparing a man o'war with the weapon 's black length extending well aft and Tommie bracing himself against the instrument bulkhead . |
| 13 | The type of sampling used in the five community studies is quotasampling , and our main concern is not to claim absolute representativeness for the whole city , but to guard ourselves against the accusation that our informants might be hand-picked from amongst friends and neighbours — or , worse , from our students . |
| 14 | He hardened himself against the sight of her ; even so he felt himself moved . |
| 15 | Ruth hunched herself against the wind . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , BNL was ordered on March 11 to raise its US reserve deposits by $5,200,000 , in order to help cover itself against the liabilities incurred by some of its staff in the course of the affair . |
| 17 | The corpse seemed to brace itself against the tilt but that could not be , unless — |
| 18 | We threw ourselves against the door , and as the lock broke we went in . |
| 19 | GRAHAM KELLY , the Football Association chief executive , last night defended himself against the barrage of criticism that greeted his evidence in the Gary Blissett trial . |
| 20 | This network of friendship and patronage became one of the less objectionable instruments of nineteenth-century electoral corruption and the instrument with which the small man met and defended himself against the state . |
| 21 | But if there is any real doubt in marginal cases the officer 's need to cover himself against the possibility of criticism from above normally resolves the issue in favour of sampling . |
| 22 | Where it did not , how far did it allow him to assert himself against the trustee and the property he had acquired in place of the object under trust ? |
| 23 | If the bird were dashing itself against the bars , feathers flying , then the similarities to human suffering would arouse impulses to assist , even to release it , like the giraffe . |
| 24 | But German Romanticism could not sustain itself against the blandishments of urban existence , and as the nineteenth century progressed the movement lapsed into sentiment and kitsch — the absolute artistic opportunism that insisted on ‘ moving ’ people emotionally . |
| 25 | Her voice died away as she resisted the urge to cross herself against the lie . |
| 26 | Paula perched herself against the cutting table trying to look nonchalant . |
| 27 | Against her will her breasts swelled , hardened nipples forcing themselves against the cotton . |
| 28 | A pair of slaves threw themselves against the doors , closing them . |
| 29 | Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic followed his foreign minister to refuse to take part in any further big peace conferences and instead urged the international community to let Muslims defend themselves against the Serbs . |
| 30 | Increasingly , hotels and restaurants are imposing deposits , reservation fees or cancellation charges to cover themselves against the revenue lost through this loss of business . |