Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [verb] against the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With my burdens lying against the brickwork of the bridge , I walk on along the same narrow path that now begins to climb the side of a rather bald looking hill . |
| 2 | The motion was proposed on Aug. 31 by the extreme Serbian Radical Party ( SRS ) led by Vojislav Seselj and the Serbian Socialist Party ( SPS ) led by Borisav Jovic , but on Sept. 2 the SPS recommended that its deputies vote against the motion , following criticism by Federal President Cosic . |
| 3 | Her hands slid up his chest , her fingers uncurling against the hard wall of muscle , tracing every strong lean line until they brushed against the warm skin of his throat , then slid on to draw his head back down while she kissed him just as tenderly , just as achingly as he had kissed her . |
| 4 | Her teeth chattered against the cup . |
| 5 | Lally gasped and coughed , she even spat , her teeth gleamed against the mud . |
| 6 | The deer raised their heads , scented , and sped into the woods , the white flashes on their rumps bobbing against the green of the field . |
| 7 | She came three times before he did , her legs wrapped round him , her screams muffled against the force of his hand . |
| 8 | She could not speak , but her lips shaped against the pulse in his throat : ‘ Amen ! ’ |
| 9 | Her eyes narrowed against the smoke from her cigarette . |
| 10 | Rosie stood there in a very short nightie , her hair rumpled and her eyes narrowed against the morning sunlight . |
| 11 | Rosie O'Dell peered through the narrow gap , her eyes half-shut against the glare of daylight . |
| 12 | Alexandra could imagine her face , white and drawn , her eyes shut against the effort of calling , the effort of standing there with almost all her weight on the one leg that was any use to her . |
| 13 | She breathed deeply , resting her head against his shoulder , exhausted by the anguish of the dream , the battle with Luke , screwing her eyes shut against the still vivid pictures in her mind . |
| 14 | She flew down the stairs and across the atrium floor , her heels clicking against the tiles . |
| 15 | Quite suddenly all the guards jumped in , their tommy-guns banging against the sides of the carriage and their leather harness creaking , and the train chugged off at about fifteen miles an hour towards Bromberg . |
| 16 | She moved closer to the picture , her eyes never leaving Ward 's face , her feet brushing against the soft silk as she walked over it . |
| 17 | With its sights set against the established social and political order , it was further estranged from those newspapers which were able to participate in the reporting and gossip of metropolitan politics . |
| 18 | As Ace manoeuvred down the flank of the shuttle , letting her gauntlets scrape against the weld-seams and pock-marks in order to slow her drift towards the base of the craft , she saw that the Dalek Killer was using his weapon to cut through the metallic material of the surface on which he 'd parked . |
| 19 | Time and again her paintings protested against the art 's threat of suicide . |
| 20 | The men on the raft unclamped their life-saving fingers from the balsa wood , uncurled their bodies braced against the fury of the Pacific , and waded through calm lagoon waters to the beach . |
| 21 | Early the following year , the Hopewell was loaded once more with harvests of cotton and indigo as well as its principal cargo , 9,500 pounds of tobacco , and she set sail from the harbour with her sails reefed against the season 's squalls and a small crew on board , under James Lariot as captain . |
| 22 | Emily paced around the room , her skirts swishing against the carpet . |
| 23 | She strides out , her bags banging against the top of her hip . |
| 24 | But perhaps she had seen others at the tree tops , for she clattered her talons violently on the top of her cage , crashed down on to its concrete floor , her wings smashing against the branch that projected across her cage , and then lunged forward at the door of her cage , driven by an impulse that spoke of a terrible longing to be free . |
| 25 | For a brief moment , as she battled with the last remaining shreds of her resistance , Lindsey could feel the thud of his heartbeat , then excitement exploded , heady and intoxicating , as her hands relaxed against the warmth of his chest . |
| 26 | Her hands tensed against the solid wall of his chest . |
| 27 | Her hands tensed against the solid wall of his chest , feeling the warm , muscular tautness of him . |
| 28 | She was forced to crouch in the bowels of the machine with her knees up around her ears , her elbows jammed against the interior dispensing machinery and her back wedged so tightly against the shelf supports that she was going to come out with her spine looking like a piece of corrugated duralinium . |
| 29 | Their millions of compatriots follow the details on West German television , day by day , while the domestic media have confined their reports to abuse against the authorities in Bonn , and sometimes against those who have left . |
| 30 | Her breasts jutted against the thick fabric of her duffel coat . |