Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [adv prt] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this afternoon the 28-year-old makes the most spectacular comeback since Reggie Perrin when he lines up against Nottingham . |
| 2 | GARRY PARKER has the best possible reasons for holding no grudges against Brian Clough when he lines up against his old club Nottingham Forest at Villa Park today . |
| 3 | PAUL GASCOIGNE , who yesterday sampled the magic of EuroDisney , fulfils his own dream tonight when he lines up against Maradona . |
| 4 | JEREMY McWilliams faces the big one tomorrow when , as the first Ulster rider in the newly constituted 500cc World motor cycling championship , he lines up against the cream of the international circus at Eastern Creek , Sydney , for the Australian Grand Prix , the first round in the series . |
| 5 | Irvine 's Jim Muir bids to his fellow Scots when he lines up against Tony Allcock — twice a former world champion — later today . |
| 6 | He can not be taken for granted as simply ‘ there ’ in our religious sense , our spiritual depth , or our moral awareness , for he transcends , he stands over against all of these . |
| 7 | As I calmly shut the door he cringes back against the wall . |
| 8 | He lolls back against the wheelchair . |
| 9 | He leans back against the wall , seeing his face in the cracked , diamond-shaped mirror and he sifts through his thoughts , trying to hold back the vitriol while searching his face for yet more mutations . |
| 10 | He leans back against the mantelpiece with his coffee , mastering the situation , a man of the world entertaining his oldest friend in his mistress 's house . |
| 11 | When , in One Hundred Years of Solitude , the last Aureliano Buendía tries to persuade others of the truth of his version of certain events , he runs up against the scepticism of the local priest who , ironically , is conspicuously lacking in the certainties which he is supposed to embody : |
| 12 | Today 's event should show if he has what is needed to take him to the top for he comes up against a very useful opponent in Sabin du Loir ( 1.15 ) . |
| 13 | Today 's event should show if he has what is needed to take him to the top for he comes up against a very useful opponent in Sabin du Loir ( 1.15 ) . |
| 14 | If he comes out against , then it 's war . |