Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] against [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was bailed on Feb. 5 , but further charges relating to another 10,000,000 yen were lodged against him on Feb. 17 . |
| 2 | Bankruptcy proceedings appear to have been taken against the plaintiffs by B.M.T. Receiving orders were made against them in the county court but , on appeal , these orders were , it is said , rescinded on terms which are not stated but which are said to have been fulfilled . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Ershad had been deposed and arrested in December 1990 [ see p. 37906-07 ] ; formal charges were brought against him in January 1991 [ see p. 37965 ] , and he was committed for trial on March 19 . |
| 5 | It will not do to paint Themistokles as Kimon 's opponent on the issue of foreign policy principles — that is , as a medising Sparta-hater — and thereby to seek to explain his ostracism in 471 : it is now certain that very many ostraka were cast against him in the early 480s when his patriotism was not in question . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , no measures were taken against him at the Restoration , suggesting perhaps that he had not been a republican by choice and may have worked towards the return of Charles II . |
| 7 | In late February his arrest was ordered as charges of rebellion with murder were filed against him in a Manila court . |
| 8 | In 1633 legal action was taken against him by his countrymen and co-adventurers at Hatfield Chase . |
| 9 | It is understood he initially thought of going there at the weekend but was advised against it by the police . |