Example sentences of "she [verb] against the " in BNC.
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| 1 | panting as she fought against the fact of death , panting as she integrated shock , panting as she realized a need to re-enter Rose 's body , to deny her own life , to dissolve back into the embryo past , the womb , to disappear , to hand herself over once more to her mother , to die too , anything to stay with her , anything but this , anything but individuality , anything but aloneness , anything but a self without a mother , anything but Rose 's death . |
| 2 | She fought against the sudden unexplainable impulse to tell him everything , to lighten the heavy burden of grieving alone . |
| 3 | Blackness was swirling in and she fought against the need to clutch hold of something . |
| 4 | She strained against the back-rest again , her bum lifting right off the seat . |
| 5 | As she pushed the emptied skip back towards the scutching room for the umpteenth time , her legs simply stopped working and she sagged against the basket , fighting down a wave of dizziness and nausea . |
| 6 | When he got her on to the pavement , she sagged against the school wall and would not move . |
| 7 | Instead he suffered an excruciating pain which made him clasp his heart , and he let go of Sarah so violently she crashed against the newel post . |
| 8 | She squinted against the sun , shielding her eyes with her hand . |
| 9 | She banged against the crate heavily and the one on top of it which had been badly placed fell onto the ground so that some of the bananas spilled out around her feet . |
| 10 | She appealed against the defendants being given bail for fear they would interfere with witnesses who could help police inquiries . |
| 11 | While she wanted the little boy to have the benefit of a strong male influence in his life and grow up rounded , she rebelled against the prospect of Vitor 's frequent presence in hers . |
| 12 | She fretted against the invisible glass , the cool and unbridged chasm between Lucy and herself , paced the crumbling edge . |
| 13 | She held the precious pot safely to her as she thudded against the wall of the sitting room . |
| 14 | As they entered his room , she reversed against the door , closing it with her bottom . |
| 15 | In 1923–4 she campaigned against the French invasion of the Ruhr . |
| 16 | Her voice was tired and bitter , and she slumped against the side of the bed . |
| 17 | She slumped against the wall , all the energy drained from her . |
| 18 | As she slumped against the sofa cushions Vass reached for the phone and dialled for room service . |
| 19 | She slumped against the bed like a rag doll , staring ahead as if drugged . |
| 20 | She slumped against the pillows , depressed . |
| 21 | It was then that she read Angela Kunze 's manifesto , written in blue on a long ribbon of paper above her head where she rests against the wall : ‘ I am fasting to cleanse myself of fear and hopelessness , hate and violence , impatience and the lust for novelty . |
| 22 | And , with a gasp , she freed herself , stumbling backwards , her head bent as she struggled against the hunger and disappointment that clamoured inside her . |
| 23 | She struggled against the almost overwhelming urge to give into the hope that it could be different . |
| 24 | She struggled against the unfamiliar effects of the alcohol , against the almost overwhelming tiredness , and forced her brain into action , pushing away the thought that perhaps that man had been right and Mark 's old friends had left her . |
| 25 | Isabel 's hands clenched into tiny fists at her sides as she struggled against the waves of savage anger threatening to sweep her beyond caution . |
| 26 | Born into society , she struggled against the hardships of the mining camps during the outbreak of Gold Fever in California . |
| 27 | There was a ripping sound and she fell against the counter . |
| 28 | In the moist warmth of the evening , she leant against the wall which encircled the Palazzo . |
| 29 | To her enormous relief she suddenly saw it running down the passage , she leant against the wall , how tiresome of that spider to come to her when it might have gone to anyone else . |
| 30 | She railed against the formality and the dreariness of it all , balked at the routine ; her mood swinging back and forth , from tears and misery to elation . |