Example sentences of "with [pers pn] against the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Touring with them against the top countries , ‘ not hiding , getting thrashed from time to time , but facing the top teams , learning all the time , and accepting that if we 're going to stay as a competitive group we 've got to be as far ahead of the others as possible ’ . |
| 2 | His deepest sympathies sided with her against the plum-mouthed bureaucrats of the Cabinet Office . |
| 3 | I stood with her against the sink . |
| 4 | Pound 's disparagement of Milton , for instance , was , I am convinced , most salutary twenty and thirty years ago ; I still agree with him against the academic admirers of Milton ; though to me it seems that the situation has changed . |
| 5 | MacDonald and Walker point to the fact that HCP acquired the characteristics of an exclusive club in speculating that , ‘ Stenhouse invited the teachers to create an alliance with him against the forces of institutional and attitudinal inertia in the school system ’ . |
| 6 | I had caught an eider duck that had been sheltering on a lochan and was flying back with it against the wind when I grew tired . |