Example sentences of "[pn reflx] against the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was bearing down on him like a bull in full charge when he jumped the wide steps and with a cry of terror threw himself against the front door of the house . |
| 2 | Jack was coming towards her , and flattened himself against the other side . |
| 3 | Not knowing whether to interpret or not , and trying to decide between two impossible alternatives , is a characteristic problem for the ‘ nervous ’ Mr Palomar who , ‘ to defend himself against the general neurasthenia … tries to keep his sensations under control insofar as possible ’ ( 4 ) . |
| 4 | Then he hurled himself against the rigid flap of wall , pushing it , bending it back into the hole , stamping on it as he forced his way into the darkness beyond . |
| 5 | He was wearing an overcoat and leant forward to protect himself against the biting wind . |
| 6 | Daak shouted , and flattened himself against the curving wall , pulling Ace with him . |
| 7 | I 'll see you , phone you one day in the week , I saw the post lady coming up the drive and I said to Henry who 's that , he threw himself against the top window so there was indeed someone coming up the drive , tore into the dinning room , picked up his tennis ball , raced back to the window and wow , wow , wow , with his ball in his mouth , and I said Henry you 're really going to frightened off intruders with a ball in your mouth , I said . |
| 8 | The legislation was resented bitterly enough by the Netherlands to lead to a war in which the English Republic was able to assert itself against the Dutch Republic . |
| 9 | That is , where the Berlin Secession defined itself against the Wilhelmine state , its Viennese counterpart defined itself against the bourgeois values of the Ringstrasse culture of the 1860s and 1870s . |
| 10 | She felt as fragile and foolish as a moth that beat itself against the hot glass of an electric bulb until it fell burned and spent , in its desperate doomed quest for the light . |
| 11 | As though the three of them were a group , defending itself against the outside world . |
| 12 | She 'd flattened herself against the outside wall like someone in a spy movie . |
| 13 | Then she mentally gave herself a shake — steeling herself against the creeping rush of longing . |
| 14 | Robbie screamed and flung herself against the protective width of Fen 's chest . |
| 15 | Julie rolled over , finally propping herself against the back door , touching the bolts there to reassure herself that it was locked . |
| 16 | She is expressing herself against the popular wisdom concerning her sex . |
| 17 | Gripping the leather straps provided , she settled herself against the supporting pole . |
| 18 | Cooperators can not expect to protect themselves against the threatened attack of the opposing forces without carefully preparing a united plan of campaign , in the same way that the Labour Party has mobilised its battalions … |
| 19 | One can easily understand the ferocity with which the more creative British filmmakers positioned themselves against the new development . |
| 20 | But protecting themselves against the deadly virus by practising safer sex is another matter . |
| 21 | Small powers seek also to come to terms with a particular great power either to guarantee themselves against the overwhelming strength of another great power or in order to prevent the great power in question from asserting its strength more directly and imperiously over them … |
| 22 | Britain may still be a country where " everything is permitted which is not specifically prohibited " , but the specific prohibitions have become more numerous , without having to justify themselves against the overriding principle of public interest suggested by the Royal Commission on the Press . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , a blow has been struck for the land-owning taxpayer , particularly those less well-off individuals who have not been able to defend themselves against the local district valuer 's increasingly aggressive commercial techniques . |
| 24 | The usual stratagems and repositionings have failed to induce narcosis in me , so I decide to settle myself against the soft zigzag of her body . |
| 25 | I tied the points of my hose , pushing down my shirt , glad to protect myself against the unearthly chill in that ghastly chamber . |