Example sentences of "them [verb] against the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like Michels , Schumpeter thought that parties are internally oligarchic , and the autonomy of party elites permits them to collaborate against the expressed interests of party members . |
| 2 | Recently we had the sorry spectacle of some of them voting against the progressive EC Social Chapter which is designed to improve the lot of the employee . |
| 3 | This second phase of INDECS will be tied in with the computerisation of the Home Office 's confidential suspects index — a list of names which officers in the immigration service carry with them to check against the names on travellers ' passports . |
| 4 | ‘ In those days when the number of disciples was increasing , the Grecian Jews among them complained against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food . |
| 5 | So we find , by the end of the fourteenth century , that persons are directing petitions to the Chancellor , claiming that they have at least a moral right to the benefit of these uses , and begging him to give them help against the legal owner who is setting up his Common Law rights against them . |
| 6 | Instead , I moved on , leaving them leaning against the cafe wall . |
| 7 | ‘ Does MacLaggan want them to charge against the muskets , and make a Culloden in Strath Tummel ? |
| 8 | Untie the winds , and let them fight Against the Churches . |