Example sentences of "he [verb] against the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They found him slumped against the steering wheel |
| 2 | She had forced him to live against the grain of his own nature which was weak and pleasure-loving and stubborn with it , so that when she beat him for laziness or lying , he became more determinedly idle and sullen . |
| 3 | Dick 's career has seen him playing against the country 's best , even though he always remained a village player at heart . |
| 4 | He was shooting a commercial for Canon , who photographed him posing against the Harley Davidson which , quite by chance , they spotted parked outside a Diner . |
| 5 | His response to this rejection is as flat as his reaction to the massive demonstration which Keith has earlier persuaded him to join against the Vietnam War . |
| 6 | The boy looked around wildly for Garvey , and saw him leaning against the property wagon quietly chewing sugar-beet . |
| 7 | He failed by just 12 runs to equal Sunil Gavaskar 's individual India Test record the 236 not out he made against the West Indies at Madras in 1983-84 . |
| 8 | ‘ That 's better , little one , ’ he whispered against the junction of her neck and shoulder . |
| 9 | He argued against the view that the discovery of primitive members of a group in a certain location meant that this was the point of origin from which the group had spread out . |
| 10 | For the next twenty years of his reign he fought against the Byzantines to establish Serbia 's independence . |
| 11 | He did n't like the black Americans , so during the Civil War he fought against the men from the North , and with those from the South . |
| 12 | He fought against the sensation that Molland had strapped him on a sort of conveyor belt in a factory that processed death . |
| 13 | Alongside , Dominic was utterly silent , and she could feel his body growing cooler as he slouched against the bed-head with casual unconcern for his nakedness . |
| 14 | With his bare feet he strained against the side of the container , and heard a few cracks . |
| 15 | Jim Magilton I 'm sure would score from ten , twelve yards where he plastered against the post any other time . |
| 16 | In his younger days , before modern copyright laws were introduced , he thundered against the theft and misuse of his character . |
| 17 | The logic here is carried a stage further in s75 of CCA 1974 which applies in three party debtor-creditor-supplier agreements as it allows the debtor a " like claim " against the creditor as he has against the transferor . |
| 18 | There 's an untidy second in which I dive forward to knock Casey off balance , and he lurches against the wall but keeps upright while Des scrambles to his feet . |
| 19 | He crashed against the wall then fell , rolled the last few stairs to the hallway . |
| 20 | There was a sudden bang as he crashed against the Lift , and a scraping sensation as he began to roll along the surface . |
| 21 | He felt his stomach heave and he retched against the wall . |
| 22 | Thus , he pronounced against the rule that a man could not be liable for the rape of his concubine , stating that concubinage was evidence of consent , but no more than this since the woman could withdraw from cohabitation and thus withdraw her consent . |
| 23 | He played against the touring Western Samoa and Italy sides that same season and it was not until 1989 that he got his chance for a full tenure for the Five Nations games . |
| 24 | John looked at Emily and saw a face on which such a keen reverence was trying to settle itself to gaze of understanding that yet again he stirred against the schoolmaster . |
| 25 | Last November he appealed against the sentence , imposed on him for breaking a ban on keeping livestock . |
| 26 | He appealed against the verdict , and on July 16 was released from detention pending his appeal . |
| 27 | He appealed against the conviction on the ground , inter alia , that documents containing statements made by him in bankruptcy proceedings should not have been admitted , by virtue of section 31 of the Theft Act 1968 . |
| 28 | He appealed against the conviction on the section 16(1) offence on the ground , inter alia , that the assistant recorder was wrong in law in holding and in so directing the jury that services offered by him as a self-employed accountant were capable of amounting to services provided under an ‘ office or employment ’ within the meaning of section 16(2) ( c ) of the Act . |
| 29 | He appealed against the punishment to the Watch Committee , lost it , and resigned . |
| 30 | ‘ It wo n't be rape , sweetheart , ’ he murmured against the side of her neck , and , with bewildering suddenness , his voice was a soft murmur again . |