Example sentences of "goes [prep] the grain " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morbidly inward , unforgiving , Cave goes against the grain of the times by being sick but refusing to be healed and integrated . |
| 2 | Seminar on Youth ( and its successors ) is a novel which in many ways goes against the grain of recent writing in Italy : quite at odds with the studied poise of Tabucchi , the selective precision of Narratori , or the deceptively balanced complexities of Calvino , Busi 's language is rich , extravagant and , to use the adjective which so irritated Gadda , ‘ baroque ’ . |
| 3 | However it goes against the grain to tell them anything . |
| 4 | Although it goes against the grain to say this , the exercise is valuable , if indeed it has the effect of providing an accurate version of a distinguished person 's world view . |
| 5 | I have to say straight away that the three star grading is highly personal decision that goes against the grain of usual standards . |
| 6 | Now clearly a teaching approach which goes against the grain of natural disposition will create needless difficulties for the learner , as I pointed out earlier in reference to translation and the focusing on form , but it does not follow that pedagogy must therefore simply accommodate that disposition . |
| 7 | Often , of course , the story is so important that they have to cover it , but it goes against the grain to be sweeping up behind another paper 's scoops . |
| 8 | Cats do n't usually take to car travel , that 's why I do n't often take any of mine with me , and shutting them up in cages goes against the grain , but my sister 's two Burmese love the car , they 'll go and sit in the car when it parked . |
| 9 | Even so , this kind of exercise probably goes against the grain for a large number of readers , who will ask " What is the point ? " |
| 10 | If we 're going to live in these fields , we 'll have to get on terms with his lot sooner or later , and it goes against the grain to hang about and admit we dare n't visit them . " |
| 11 | However , it goes against the grain to have to say this , as it is our land after all . |
| 12 | The shares are worthless , and it goes against the grain to see them still quoted , written down as they are . " |
| 13 | ‘ Well , you shall have it as you wish , though it goes against the grain with me to see this fellow go free . |
| 14 | ‘ Striking women always goes against the grain with me . ’ |
| 15 | Well , the first book in which Freud explicitly takes up this question in the opening pages , is his book of nineteen twenty seven , er The Future of an Illusion , and his begins , by posing the Hobbesian question , although it does n't mention Hobbes , but , it 's the fundamental point he makes , that civilization goes against the grain of human nature , and the question he asks himself is , how does er , order , morality . |
| 16 | ‘ But it goes against the grain . ’ |
| 17 | It goes against the grain , does n't it ? |
| 18 | I 've had one or two burned pans lately , and that goes against the grain . |
| 19 | Really goes against the grain to see . |
| 20 | It goes against the grain terribly ! |
| 21 | That 's fine , I 'd had , on the subject of this boycotting timber , erm I know of two instances at least where Oxford City Council are still using tropical hardwoods , and I wonder , I mean , you know , obviously it goes against the grain of the signing of the tropical hardwood . |
| 22 | First , its concern with a king , his personality and his personal relationships , goes with the grain of early medieval politics . |