Example sentences of "[verb] against [pron] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | His whole life 's work twisted against him in one poisonous little rumour . |
| 3 | The dispute had also moved against us in another way . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ This worked against us in many areas of the country and we had a lot of losses . |
| 11 | Pitted against him in this bout was The Big Boss Man — 337lbs from Cobb County , Georgia — who , as fans of Sky TV 's Wrestling Mania know , is a pumped-up hulk ‘ on the side of the law ’ . |
| 12 | Cooke said : ‘ You hate to lose a game like that , especially when it is so tight and when two decisions go against you in that manner . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Sixty-five of those who voted against her in 1975 are still in the House . |
| 14 | Inside where nothing shows , I am the essence of a man spinning double-headed coins , and betting against himself in private atonement for an unremembered past . |
| 15 | The Aragonese were politely told by Edward ( in January 1283 ) that ‘ we are bound by kinship and by homage to the king of France , nor does it behove us to rebel against him in any way , nor to do anything to arouse his anger nor give him offence ’ . |