Example sentences of "came [adv prt] against the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | For the first time Gould came up against the devastating effects of unlimited commercial exploitation . |
2 | Perhaps he came up against the Edwardian equivalent of a conservation lobby . |
3 | Frontier youth workers came up against the destructive , deceptive nature of evil in many of its present forms . |
4 | She came up against the unsolved riddle with a horrible jerk . |
5 | He repeated his question , and came up against the same smiling ignorance . |
6 | Unfortunately for Glanvil , many ghost stories are faked ; and investigators of the psychic phenomena of two centuries later came up against the same problem . |
7 | The dropping man came up against the wrought iron , and glass powder sifted like fairy dust down into the courtyard . |
8 | ONCE-RACED MILIYEL * , who came up against the 1,000 Guineas ante-post favourite Musicale when both made their debut at Lingfield last season , may open her account in the Geoffrey Barling Maiden Fillies ' Stakes ( 2.00 ) at Newmarket today . |