Example sentences of "we [was/were] [adv prt] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | To go one down with nine minutes remaining and with only 10 men , we were up against it . ’ |
| 2 | " There was one very difficult principle that we were up against which I did not really know about to start with … that in accordance with the general surrender everyone was supposed to surrender to the Allied Army against whom they had been fighting . |
| 3 | At the Pitztal FIS downhill , which was held on a high glacier , we were up against none other than Peter Mueller , on the road back from last season 's devastating knee injury . |
| 4 | When we were finally told , it was like the world caving in , but in a dreadful way it was a relief to know what we were up against . ’ |
| 5 | Yeah , we er , we won the , the losers trophy twice , we got first round trophy , got knocked out the first round to go to that , me , half , half the decent teams were knocked out in the first round , you know , we were , we were playing sort of , that , that was , nine times out of ten that was the real cup , I mean we , we were up against the league champions once |
| 6 | That 's what we was up against . |
| 7 | We were not alone in our dilemma , for all the other prahus in the fleet around us were up against the same deadline . |