Example sentences of "press against [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt as if he were pressing against a strong , polarised magnetic force . |
| 2 | Any two surfaces rubbing together produce frictional heat , such as a brake shoe pressing against a brake-drum . |
| 3 | Bend over , holding the dumb-bell at arm 's length between your knees , with the back of your elbow pressing against the inside of the thigh . |
| 4 | Everywhere , his testimony was a ‘ show ’ : one that played in dentists ' surgeries to relieve the pain of extraction , in bars to give a purpose to drinking , in aeroplanes criss-crossing the country , and in television stores to crowds of people pressing against the windows . |
| 5 | I took a breath and pulled myself hand over hand down the curtain , seeking to find the bottom of it with my feet : and there was indeed a gap between the bottom edge of the curtain and the mud , but only a matter of inches , and there was clutter down there , unidentifiable , pressing against the barrier , trying to get past it . |
| 6 | As the crowd grew , pressing against the window , the Divisional Police Commissioner Rousselet , who had been keeping an eye on events , sent a policeman down with orders to have the nude painting removed from the window . |
| 7 | Despite the cold , the atmosphere in the carriage was very stuffy , and it was more interesting to stand out here , even if people were pressing against the windows and sitting about on boxes and suitcases . |
| 8 | The curtain was a dense , opaque greenish-yellow , and something was right behind it , a shape pressing against the humped plastic standing there looking down at him , half seen , half imagined . |
| 9 | Soon my buttocks were pressing against the ceiling , then the back of my head , and I hauled myself to the edge of the rug to look for a way down before I was crushed . |
| 10 | Frenular bristles are absent or small in these insects but there is sometimes a more distally placed series of costal spines ( the pseudofrenulum ) on the hind wing which functions independently of the jugum by pressing against the anal area of the fore wing ( e.g. Sabatinca ) , or a series of interlocking hairs on the basal half of the hind margin of the fore Wing and the fore margin of the hind wing ( e.g. Mnesarchaea ) . |
| 11 | He held her gaze , allowing his own eyes to drop to her breasts , which were pressing against the clinging material of her dress . |
| 12 | Memories real as the rough bark pressing against the back of her hands came crowding into her mind . |
| 13 | We stand outside the Glass House for a moment , looking in at the dense green leaves pressing against the panes . |
| 14 | She could feel the edge of the bed pressing against the backs of her legs . |
| 15 | Sarella murmured sleepily , allowing her lips the luxury of pressing against the muscles of his bronzed shoulder in a banquet of sensation . |
| 16 | Fran swallowed hard , feeling the hard outline of his body pressing against the soft curve of her breast in a way that seemed to steal her breath . |
| 17 | They now spontaneously assemble into rods which press against the membrane of the red blood cell deforming it from a rounded into a sickle shape . |
| 18 | These cells , often called ‘ prehaustorial cells ’ , are the ones that press against the host , and possibly soften its surface . |
| 19 | She asks us if we would agree that Julia Roberts is the most stunning thing we 've ever seen , and we have to admit that Julia 's extraordinarily wide mouth and upturned nose always remind us of someone with their face pressed against a plate-glass window . |
| 20 | — the most common woodpecker at Salcey ; the same size as a blackbird , it moves through the tops of the trees in a series of hops with stiff tall feathers pressed against a branch for support . |
| 21 | This forces water through a tube formed by the tongue pressed against a groove in the roof of the mouth . |
| 22 | The little man 's head was pressed against a jutting jaw . |
| 23 | Scarcely daring to breathe , I lined up my telephoto lens , pressed against a tree to steady my hands and shot off several frames . |
| 24 | Each time Adam gently pressed against a vertebra , Miranda was pushed against his body . |
| 25 | The sections are put onto microscope slides pressed against a sheet of X-ray photographic film , wrapped in light-tight black paper and placed in a dark-room . |
| 26 | Pressed against a window , she bullied herself to reach a decision . |
| 27 | Okay so th here 's the pipette pressed against a cell , a high resistance seal is formed , electrically very resistant , between the membrane and the glass pipette , and you can then , if you 're lucky , if you 've got a s a single channel molecule under that er bit of pipette , record the currents flowing through that single protein molecule . |
| 28 | Conroy folded his cap into his pocket and started up the stairs , then pressed against the wall as footsteps clattered down and round the turn came Freddy Pepper himself , big ears and horn-rims that were his trademark , in tennis togs above which his ruddy make-up glowed . |
| 29 | Though the drill rotates continuously , the blade only moves when pressed against the workpiece . |
| 30 | I stop in front of the shop and look inside with my forehead sort of pressed against the glass . |