Example sentences of "himself against [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon scotched himself against a wall ; |
| 2 | So was it reasonable for the driver to step in and use his car to defend himself against a gang armed with lumps of concrete ? |
| 3 | Simon now took his only chance to measure himself against a Formula One driver . |
| 4 | He stood in the stern balancing himself against a stay , guiding the tiller with his bare foot . |
| 5 | He supported himself against a pillar with his free hand . |
| 6 | In practising a form , the student is taught to defend himself against a series of imaginary opponents . |
| 7 | Rain left him supporting himself against a table as she fetched her shoulder bag . |
| 8 | Surely he must have realised that he was pitting himself against a concern of considerable strength . |
| 9 | Posing himself against a background , if you see what I mean . |
| 10 | Hamlet [ his father could n't afford a large cigar when he was born ] , steadied himself against a stanchion on the underside of the rig . |
| 11 | That he won a points decision against the Californian Mark Wills at Wembley will give them some reassurance that the British heavyweight champion could give a reasonable account of himself against an opponent who will not crumple easily . |
| 12 | Somewhere down there he stubbed himself against an ill-defined but hard mass of fact , and brought it up to the surface to examine it . |
| 13 | He was a little boy again , defending himself against an accusation , petulant and self-righteous but , above all , scared . |
| 14 | One of his regrets is that in four series against West Indies his record is very ordinary — one innings in which he took eight wickets , but little else of note — and he is aware that not having proved himself against the best team in the world will be held against him when reputations come to be assessed . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He tensed , judging his moment , then lurched forward and hurtled across the intervening space , flattening himself against the house wall like a spider . |
| 17 | Grabbing at the Zodiac 's tow line , he held himself against the river for a moment , getting his breath back . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | Where it did not , how far did it allow him to assert himself against the trustee and the property he had acquired in place of the object under trust ? |
| 20 | he was locked deep in thought , his way of moving isolating , crisp , a steady manoeuvre of himself against the elements . |
| 21 | GRAHAM KELLY , the Football Association chief executive , last night defended himself against the barrage of criticism that greeted his evidence in the Gary Blissett trial . |
| 22 | This acquisition of competence can be seen as one way the worker defends himself against the control exercised over him by management . |
| 23 | While the duped adversary prepared to defend himself against the apparently raised weapon , the student 's left hand would draw the upside-down dagger from his belt and plunge it into his rival 's stomach . |
| 24 | Sighing at the thought of having to leave the warmth and comfort of the fire , he rose and lifted his coat from the hook on the kitchen door , bracing himself against the cold stormy air , and strode off into the darkness . |
| 25 | Each story contains a different claim by Jesus that set himself against the religious leaders and pointed to the new way of Christianity : |
| 26 | He braced himself against the sides of that smooth slanting chimney in almost foetal position and began to force his way upward by flexing . |
| 27 | Throughout it all , he keenly defends himself against the propaganda with which the minders assigned to foreign journalists bombard him . |
| 28 | Pressing himself against the last wagon he peered around the side for any sign of the guards . |
| 29 | He hugged himself against the sudden freezing wind then scrambled to his feet as it whipped the first drops of rain through the open door . |
| 30 | He braced himself against the now torrential downpour and grabbed the door handle with both hands , hauling the sliding door back across the opening but stopping short of banging it closed . |