Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] against the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He held her gaze , allowing his own eyes to drop to her breasts , which were pressing against the clinging material of her dress . |
| 2 | Um if you go back to the eighteenth century , early nineteenth century , you find that um I think it was at er Winchester possibly , er some some of you may have heard of this in in History or something , er there was an uprising at Winchester school and the Army had to be called in to quell the rioting pupils because they were rebelling against the harsh conditions . |
| 3 | Her eyelids were closing against the sheer enormity of the prospect . |
| 4 | By the turn of the century , some botanists were protesting against the excessive speculations of the dispersal theorists , arguing that in many cases those species with the highest dispersal power were not the most widely distributed . |
| 5 | Mrs McAlorum underlined the damage done to the party through the connection with the Tories , particularly in areas like Lanarkshire where voters were fighting against the worst ravages of the recession . |
| 6 | And here was the waterfront , not of the river , but a grimy offshoot of the Danube Canal , apparently little used , though a couple of moored barges were bumping against the ramshackle wooden pier . |
| 7 | He remained very close to Edward , particularly as the king 's negotiator with the Scots , until June 1321 , when , at Sherburn in Yorkshire , he deserted to the baronial party which was forming against the two Despensers . |
| 8 | It had never been so low , and by then virtually the whole of the ( non-Neath ) rest of Welsh rugby was pulling against the national team . |
| 9 | A slight breeze was blowing from the left , bringing with it the stench of a dead bloated cow that was lying against the five-bar gate leading to a field . |
| 10 | The creature 's underside was startling against the indistinct background . |
| 11 | Russell Telford was protesting against the possible closure of 31 pits . |
| 12 | A pro-Khomeini mutiny began among Air Force technicians ( known as homagars ) and then spread to other ranks ; by 10 February the Air Force was fighting against the Imperial Guard . |
| 13 | After all , one of them was Mrs Eileen Paisley , who was standing against the outgoing Lord Mayor to protest his papist flag-lowering . |
| 14 | The driver was the first to recover his scattered wits and went down the steps to comfort Marsh who was leaning against the tender side , shaking uncontrollably , his face ashen . |
| 15 | He had come in and was leaning against the closed door , surveying the chaos with an expressionless face . |
| 16 | He was leaning against the back door where he 'd slammed it — filthy , crumpled , and pale with hunger . |
| 17 | Something was scraping against the boarded-up windows . |
| 18 | He was working against the natural grain of his genius , and the fact that he went on to write two more plays suggests the triumph of will over natural capacity , of idea over sensibility . |