Example sentences of "[verb] them [adv prt] against the " in BNC.
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1 | Would you like to see them in against the outside candidates if we look at this |
2 | She handed two packets and a wafer to the boy , who had finished wiping the mattresses down and had leant them up against the wall to dry . |
3 | ‘ Surely , then , Kenneth , this great grudge of theirs will bring them out against the enlistment ? ’ |
4 | It is mildly blasphemous , too , to be sent into this breathing world with trillions and trillions of brain-cells , all anxious to fire and to titillate , and to shutter them off against the more vigorous half of human thought . |
5 | Mr Tate advises prospective purchasers to produce a written list of requirements , and to check them off against the package one by one . |
6 | If you turned it into a business , you could keep six maids and gardeners if you wanted and write them off against the pigs . |
7 | Periodically I went down into the warmth below , to write up my notes and check them over against the ship 's design plans , which Nils had produced for me before going off with Iain to talk to the Navy Yard people . |
8 | The maintenance of legal definitions of public order , based on a principle of ‘ free circulation ’ , inevitably brings them up against the annexation of the street by male youth culture . |