Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [adv prt] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | The committee , established on June 9 , claimed , however , that its brief was to " determine the facts of the event " and " not to make a case out against anyone " . |
| 2 | A koka down against East Germany 's Torsten Brechot , who threw Neil Adams in the 1988 Olympics , he gained a yuko ( five points ) with a rolling sacrifice throw three seconds from time . |
| 3 | Angered by the incident , Blower demanded a written apology and then threatened to take a writ out against McAvennie . |
| 4 | They could see a man with a ladder up against the cinema putting up the new poster , and the small round figure of Peggy Pine coming out of her dress shop to stand and look admiringly at her window display . |
| 5 | Zen put a hand out against the wall to steady himself . |
| 6 | The items I joined first were the stretcher rails using a 16mm spade bit in a power drill ( a brace and bit works equally well ) with the help of a friend across the bench giving me a line up against a sliding bevel . |
| 7 | From the sideline it looked like a rottweiler up against a chihuahua . |
| 8 | And the other game in group A , Bolton have pulled a goal back against Brescia , it 's now one apiece , for Brescia after three and with the equalizer on thirty nine . |
| 9 | One Kenya Masai official , believing that there was ‘ a case for the preservation of this people in a fairly pure state as a set off against more politically minded peoples ’ , asked for a doctor to be stationed at Kajiado for this purpose . |
| 10 | There is an apple-tree up against the fence that separates them from their neighbours , but it has been given a kind of Buddhist monk 's haircut . |