Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know how you poke your nose against wire netting and push it up against an apple tree , but you still ca n't bite the bark because of the wire . |
| 2 | A deep-voiced character with five o'clock shadow all over his face and fists like Popeye the Sailor grabbed the girl by her Indian beads and slammed her up against the mantelpiece . |
| 3 | Bernard grabbed the front of Barak 's shirt and slammed him up against the wall . |
| 4 | He grabbed Brett the moment he opened the door and slammed him up against the wall . |
| 5 | I managed to heave Charlie into the main bar and prop him up against a wall . |
| 6 | She went to sit on the floor where the rush matting was covered by a rug and rested her back against the sofa . |
| 7 | He had never been with a man who wanted to take him out at three in morning and stand him up against a wall in a dark street and jerk him off , not because there was nowhere else to go , but for the pleasure of doing it like that ; he had never done it again and again with one body . |
| 8 | ‘ Too right it is ! ’ he agreed , reaching for her with masterly precision and pulling her up against him , ignoring her small cry of outrage . |
| 9 | He was much closer than she had anticipated and his arms came round her from behind , circling her waist and pulling her back against him . |
| 10 | He pushed aside the pan and went to her by the sink , wrapping his arms around her waist and pulling her back against him . |
| 11 | In the evening rush-hour a lorry had skidded into a car and jammed it up against one of the pillar-boxes outside the hospital . |
| 12 | Andy yelled , throwing the keys down and grabbing me by the collar and slamming me back against the side of the Landie . |
| 13 | And the wind took him up pony and all , and plumped him up against the hedge . ’ |
| 14 | Hannele closed the door behind her and pressed her back against it . |
| 15 | He bent to pick them up and I pulled him into the alley and smashed him up against the wall . |
| 16 | He took her by the shoulders and pulled her back against him sharply . |
| 17 | and lean it up against the garden shed , you know what I mean ? |
| 18 | The thought of her twitching her last in a plastic hat , face covered with green mud , carried him through to their bedroom ( a room Elinor had taken to calling ‘ my ’ bedroom ) and shored him up against Maisie 's rendition of the second subject in ‘ Für Elise ’ . |
| 19 | Bakufu control over the country was never absolute , but rested on the administration 's ability to hold in check the ambitions of various provincial lords and play them off against each other . |
| 20 | It is mildly blasphemous , too , to be sent into this breathing world with trillions and trillions of brain-cells , all anxious to fire and to titillate , and to shutter them off against the more vigorous half of human thought . |
| 21 | Next day he came along carrying a huge , man-sized wooden cross , and propped it up against the pageant . |
| 22 | Mr Tate advises prospective purchasers to produce a written list of requirements , and to check them off against the package one by one . |
| 23 | Why , wondered Senator Rudman at the hearings , had he not taken North into his office and closed the door and put him up against the wall and pushed him and pushed him and pushed him ? |
| 24 | So Gough , who had a brilliant European Championship , has to sit on the bench with Roxburgh and sweat it out against Portugal in a match the Scots have to win . |
| 25 | If you turned it into a business , you could keep six maids and gardeners if you wanted and write them off against the pigs . |
| 26 | Jack looped an arm round her shoulders and tugged her up against his side . |
| 27 | He tightened his grip and pushed her back against the door-jamb suddenly . |
| 28 | She spoke brusquely to you and pushed you back against the door of Woolworth 's . ’ |
| 29 | Periodically I went down into the warmth below , to write up my notes and check them over against the ship 's design plans , which Nils had produced for me before going off with Iain to talk to the Navy Yard people . |
| 30 | However , starting from civil society has the virtue of starting from how people do lead their lives and brings us up against questions about how social changes have transformed the range of possibilities available to them . |