Example sentences of "himself against the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He tensed , judging his moment , then lurched forward and hurtled across the intervening space , flattening himself against the house wall like a spider . |
| 4 | Grabbing at the Zodiac 's tow line , he held himself against the river for a moment , getting his breath back . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | he was locked deep in thought , his way of moving isolating , crisp , a steady manoeuvre of himself against the elements . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This acquisition of competence can be seen as one way the worker defends himself against the control exercised over him by management . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Each story contains a different claim by Jesus that set himself against the religious leaders and pointed to the new way of Christianity : |
| 13 | He braced himself against the sides of that smooth slanting chimney in almost foetal position and began to force his way upward by flexing . |
| 14 | Throughout it all , he keenly defends himself against the propaganda with which the minders assigned to foreign journalists bombard him . |
| 15 | Pressing himself against the last wagon he peered around the side for any sign of the guards . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He swallowed hard and ran to the back door , pressing himself against the wall beside it . |
| 19 | Again he pressed himself against the wall and peered cautiously into the hall . |
| 20 | Pressing himself against the wall he looked down at the body . |
| 21 | He was inclined to feel giddy , too , and was obliged to support himself against the parapet in order to steady his troubled vision . |
| 22 | Bent almost double , he darted towards the kitchen , pressing himself against the wall . |
| 23 | It 's changed partly because Stalin 's er strategy in China has been shown to be a disaster and Stalin is trying to cover his tracks and most effective way of protecting himself against the criticism and the unpopularity which is likely to come from the failure is by insisting that the strategy was right all along and the revolution is about to triumph . |
| 24 | The muscles of his legs and arms bulged alarmingly and shone with sweat as he braced himself against the bulkheads to study the small control panel . |
| 25 | Daak shouted , and flattened himself against the curving wall , pulling Ace with him . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | But if there is any real doubt in marginal cases the officer 's need to cover himself against the possibility of criticism from above normally resolves the issue in favour of sampling . |
| 28 | This network of friendship and patronage became one of the less objectionable instruments of nineteenth-century electoral corruption and the instrument with which the small man met and defended himself against the state . |
| 29 | But now , Carey knew , it was every man for himself against the past . |
| 30 | He hardened himself against the sight of her ; even so he felt himself moved . |