Example sentences of "[verb] against [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wanted to struggle against him with all her might . |
| 2 | She was naked , completely naked , and she could hear his harshly muttered words of desire ; they excited her beyond belief , her body twisting against his in mindless fever , all flesh and blood and pulse . |
| 3 | His whole life 's work twisted against him in one poisonous little rumour . |
| 4 | The dispute had also moved against us in another way . |
| 5 | Heads of departments and institutions are indemnified by the University in respect of any claims made against them under civil law in connection with safety duties . |
| 6 | He sought my advice on one or two matters where complaints were made against him of alleged libels , which I had no real difficulty in seeing off and about which he wrote me appreciative letters . |
| 7 | But serious allegations had already been made against him by this date . |
| 8 | The one area of liability which really concerns the buyer is the possibility of claims made against him by third parties which arise because of some act or omission of the seller . |
| 9 | The only charge that can be made against you at this moment is of theft from our house , however that may be read hereafter . |
| 10 | As it was Judge Justice had to rule against it with all the authority of the Supreme Court of Texas . |
| 11 | For the rest , they can choose either to give preferential treatment to foreign firms ( by means of incentives not available to local firms ) , or to discriminate against them by such means as Brazil 's market reserve policies . |
| 12 | Richard Baxter was deeply shocked by this tragedy and also by the general prejudice aroused against him by this incident . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Lord Donaldson said that he could now break the traditional silence of judges about their colleagues and ‘ give voice to the anger and disgust which we have felt at the campaign of calumny waged against you in recent months ’ . |
| 15 | So neither plant owners nor instrumentation makers are at all keen to report on RFI problems that could later be used against them in legal proceedings . |
| 16 | Officials of the National Liberal Party and National Peasant Party , who denied organising the Feb. 18 demonstration , called on the NSF to put an end to the systematic " terrorism " shown against them in recent weeks . |
| 17 | But he was struggling to score goals and the fans were turning against him until New Year 's Day 1991 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | His mouth was warm and firm , hungry , moving against hers with complete command so that when he lifted his head and looked down at her with glittering eyes she was breathless . |
| 20 | Lucenzo crushed her body closer to his , driving her into a fast , whirling quickstep , his thighs moving against hers with hard , male insistence . |
| 21 | The defendants also contended that the lease provided for payment of a rent which pro tempore at least was illegal under the Counter Inflationary ( Business Rents ) Order , or , if the court found against them in that , then it was illegal under the Counter-Inflation Act , 1973 , s 17 . |
| 22 | Valletta had loomed against it like some huge medieval fortress , the fabled kingdom of some fantastic fairy-tale … |
| 23 | ‘ This worked against us in many areas of the country and we had a lot of losses . |
| 24 | H's purpose , however , was to punish the tenant for having given evidence ( under subpoena ) in an action brought against him by another of his tenants and it followed that the landlord was guilty of a criminal contempt of court . |
| 25 | Innkeepers who either discriminate against or refuse service to a customer on the grounds of his or her sex or race are liable to have a claim brought against them under either s.29 of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 or s.20 of the Race Relations Act 1976 . |
| 26 | It was a perfect opportunity for some writers to express the resentment which they had harboured against him for many years , and he himself was convinced that such people detested him because he had acquired British citizenship . |
| 27 | ‘ If it were true , she 'd have to be protected against someone like that , would n't she ? ’ |
| 28 | In November 1990 Treuhand stated that half of all land and property had claims entered against it by former owners . |
| 29 | Then last year , everything just started running against me for some reason . |
| 30 | On that occasion Themistokles carried his view ; but ( Plutarch says ) the Spartans took against him from that moment , preferring to advance Kimon instead . |