Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] against the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He dropped a long , searching kiss on her mouth , then took her shaking hand and laid it against the powerful , overpowering size of his arousal . |
| 2 | The priest took the basin of blood and spattered it against the altar . |
| 3 | Caught him by the Arran-knit jumper , he did , and flung him against the railings , demanding money . |
| 4 | The devil-man opened his eyes and shielded them against the brightness of the sky . |
| 5 | Suddenly the man bent and grabbed the leather thong , swinging the hound off its feet and hurling it against the tree . |
| 6 | Up to now , ScottishPower has adopted another treatment — deferring the difference on repurchase and amortising it against the finance cost of the term of the original borrowing . |
| 7 | She cried out and , seeing how white she was , he pushed her on to the settee , following her down and crowding her against the arm . |
| 8 | The whole company — all but for Colley the Mason — was ranged round the chapel when she banged shut the door and bolted it against the mob . |
| 9 | Keep them in this position and place them against the hands of your partner so that you are in physical contact ( See Fig. 1 ) . |
| 10 | One way of doing this is to take a piece of paper and mark the position of the mounting holes and matching them against the motherboard . |
| 11 | Indeed , as Amiss saw with fascination , his first act on sitting down to breakfast was to open the tabloid at page three , fold it and prop it against the sugar bowl in such a way that the topless pin-up of the day was there to be looked at every time he got bored with the Telegraph . |
| 12 | and charge it against the Caernarvon job . |
| 13 | The artist calmly took a small mechanical device and positioned it against the side of her finger which wore a glittering pair of rings in emerald and diamond . |
| 14 | If you look at the oxygen results and plot them against the year of coral growth we see cooler water temperatures and hence stronger trade winds during the little ice age prior to nineteen hundred . |
| 15 | His purpose in writing was to recount the human stories of all his fellow parishioners and their ancestors and to set them against the physical environment and administrative framework of the place where they lived . |
| 16 | O'Hara rode his motor-cycle to the Pier Head and parked it against the granite bollards at the entrance to the Albert Dock . |
| 17 | To save draining the cistern , make a bung from polyethylene sheeting and cloth and hold it against the outlet . |
| 18 | He had a hammer and banged it against the walls to restore order but nobody took any notice of him . |
| 19 | Like the latter , Genet inverts and subverts the surface/depth binary , confirming and exploiting the connections between the paradoxical and the perverse , and turning them against the regimes , heterosexual and otherwise , which outlaw the deviant . |
| 20 | Ignoring her protests , Marc pulled her hips hard against him , moulding her beneath the palms of his hands and forcing her against the silk-covered wall of the corridor . |
| 21 | Murdoch immediately relaunched it as a tabloid and turned it against the flagship of its previous owners . |
| 22 | Every erm pitchfork must come out one You ca n't start fighting and and pulling it against the grain otherwise you you would be in trouble . |
| 23 | Frantically she tried to escape from his tightening grip , but he merely laughed and trapped her against the hatch with his body . |
| 24 | He did n't , he picked me up and threw me against the van and ran off . |
| 25 | Maggie gave a low moan , her knees sagging , and he caught her close , turning her head to his shoulder , deepening the kiss and holding her against the length of his body . |
| 26 | The realisation that we teach children more effectively if we understand them fully and set them against the social and cultural conditions in which they live and grow , places an expectation upon the teacher which can not be prescribed by contract . |
| 27 | In those few minutes , say the prosecution , back home with the baby , Corbett , in a flash of temper , had grabbed Danielle by the leg and smashed her against the bedroom wall . |
| 28 | Or it may abrade ; picking up silt , sand , or even rocks and grinding them against the rock beneath . |
| 29 | He was convinced that Boulton would use his ‘ superior ingenuity to improve it ’ and use it against the Americans . |
| 30 | It kept him company on Once Hill and as he pushed the bicycle into the garage and leant it against the Suffolk Punch . |