Example sentences of "came up against the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stewart was suddenly violent , he backed away from Menzies , came up against the door , turned , and was gone . |
| 2 | ‘ Childbirth ’ our local priest called it , but I did n't really understand what he was on about until several years later when I came up against the problem again . |
| 3 | She backed away , one hand raised to ward him off , stopping abruptly as she came up against the edge of the table . |
| 4 | A ripple of crowd laughter came up against the breeze from the direction of the main grandstands . |
| 5 | As soon as any efforts to form national unions were made , they came up against the imbalance between Glasgow and the rest of the country . ’ |
| 6 | Even more important , perhaps , were the discussions about the notion of a women 's aesthetic : again and again , the attempt to articulate the new and unspoken came up against the absence of an appropriate language . |
| 7 | Separatism , despite any protestations to the contrary , came up against the age old problem of how to transpose the idea onto the material world . |