Example sentences of "[verb] her [noun] against the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three High Court judges sitting as Visitors to Lincoln 's Inn dismissed her appeal against the tribunal 's finding but varied the sentence to one of suspension for five years . |
| 2 | She flipped the panel up and keyed in the code , banging her elbow against the wall as the executive transporter pressed close . |
| 3 | As she dried herself , banging her elbows against the sides of the small compartment , she started to giggle . |
| 4 | Swept on the flood of her own excitement , she simply changed course , banging her fist against the side of her chair in her eagerness to make him understand . |
| 5 | The man had his fingers around the woman 's throat and was banging her head against the back of the seat . |
| 6 | Then Rose made a grab for Evelyn 's hair and started banging her head against the floor with both hands . |
| 7 | But , rather than sell them she has chosen to raise money to save them , pledging her jewellery against the debts . |
| 8 | Bernice knelt at the wall , pressing her ear against the stone . |
| 9 | Helen Zeitlin , who worked in the haematology unit at the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch for five years , and was dismissed on the grounds of redundancy , has won her appeal against the decision . |
| 10 | Acting on it , he turned away again , and Maria went after him , knocking her shin against the coffee-table in her haste . |
| 11 | The England squad — ranked fourth in the world — will be selected following trials in December , and the team 's coach , Betty Galsworthy , will relish the prospect of pitting her team against the world champions from New Zealand and second-ranked Australia prior to the 1991 world tournament . |
| 12 | Lucy 's hand moved through her hair and she clenched her teeth against the tantalising sensation . |
| 13 | She slammed the boot down , with a cry of ‘ God Almighty ! ’ and ran indoors , where she sat down at the kitchen table and beat her fists against the wood , with anger , with frustration , with a sudden , desperate concern for Nick . |
| 14 | Mrs Thatcher , for example , was able to impose her policies against the opposition of large parts of the population with less difficulty than President Gorbachev faced in pushing through perestroika . |
| 15 | Depressed , she leaned back in her seat , resting her head against the headrest while staring unseeingly at the hills and at the Esk River winding its way through the valley . |
| 16 | She knelt on her knees , as Mandy had explained , resting her haunches against the wooden seat . |
| 17 | She reached for the little wrist and laid her fingers against the inside . |
| 18 | Isabel laid her cheek against the abused pillow and her eyelids drooped . |
| 19 | Polly laid her palms against the strong hard face she loved so much , knowing exactly what she wanted to do with the rest of her life . |
| 20 | Bracing her feet against the Angharad 's deck , she fixed her eyes on the grey smudge of land in the distance , willing it to come nearer . |
| 21 | She achieves birth , instead , by bracing her body against the ground with her forelegs and then inflating her lungs so that they swell into her abdomen and squeeze the young out by pneumatic pressure . |
| 22 | But she would n't explain why she 's using her vote against the government in tonight 's debate on a referendum on the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 23 | Feeling defeated suddenly , she discovered that it was no good trying to recapture the fury she had felt with him in the hope of that fury helping her battle against the way she was feeling . |
| 24 | The preacherman had hauled her out of the Feelgood and battered her face against the road . |
| 25 | She was under police custody waiting to continue her testimony against the man alleged to be Washington 's most powerful drug lord , Rayful Edmond III . |
| 26 | ‘ I am not hopping , ’ she declared angrily , stamping her foot against the planking . |
| 27 | She had , at first , absolutely no hope of consent , and for a week or so she tossed in bed at night preparing to brace her spirit against the inevitable refusal . |
| 28 | 4 Pushing her arm against the attacker 's chest , the defender leans backwards , breaking the balance of the attacker . |
| 29 | More financial support would help improve her chances against the big names . |
| 30 | She banged her fist against the steering-wheel , fighting back the tears that scalded her eyes and threatened to blind her . |