Example sentences of "[verb] against [pron] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His whole life 's work twisted against him in one poisonous little rumour . |
| 2 | He was probably the first to include the Gauls in a history of Italy , though Fabius Pictor who fought against them in 225 B.C. was bound to have said something about their characteristics . |
| 3 | He was charged with accroaching royal power and procuring the deaths of the Earl of Lancaster and other nobles , acquiring many lands that belonged to the crown , and disobeying the judgement of banishment pronounced against him in 1321 . |
| 4 | The ambivalence of Mynne 's relations with the Crown is epitomized by the repeated accusations of delinquency ( that is , royalism ) brought against him by one of the parliamentarian committees in charge of penal taxation during the years 1643–7 . |
| 5 | ‘ Sixty-five of those who voted against her in 1975 are still in the House . |
| 6 | He stood beside the cardinal 's chair , leaning against it with one hand on its gilded back . |