Example sentences of "[vb base] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet he feared they were like biting fish in a fine mesh net , if they swam forward they would never escape ; he saw them lifting their limbs with automatic motion , as crayfish with their lumbering claws knock against the basketwork of the pens in which they have been trapped . |
| 2 | On the latter subject Chidley published his most famous tract , A Cry against a Crying Sinne ( 1652 , reprinted 1657 ) . |
| 3 | And who could have gone below to sleep when dawn broke to show the weird silhouettes of Suilven and Canisp against the glow of the eastern sky ? |
| 4 | Mr Winchester is impressively knowledgeable about all manner of things , from the tectonic plates that inexorably grind against each other beneath the Pacific 's waves to the steamer duck paddling furiously away in Patagonia ( although sloppy editing has the duck paddling at 20 knots on one page and a more believable 12 on another ) . |
| 5 | She is behind him now , holding him , her breasts warm against his back . |
| 6 | His fingers warm against her cheek , as though he needed to touch , he continued , ‘ When you 've wanted something for so long , and you finally think you 've found it , and then it all turns to ashes , it makes you over-react — sounds lame , does n't it ? |
| 7 | That sort of language encouraged the many resentments Americans harbour against high culture ( remember the disparagement of Adlai Stevenson as an ‘ egghead ’ ? ) and led to such curiosae as the Chicago attack on an Eric Fischl painting in which a fully clothed boy looks at a naked man swinging a bat . |
| 8 | ‘ Said she wanted to find out the latest angle on the police battle against drugs . ’ |
| 9 | Those involved are attempting to come to grips with the injustices , the inequalities and the prejudices of a political system in which the practice of representative democracy appears to have little relevance to their plight as they battle against the social and economic problems briefly outlined above . |
| 10 | Perhaps you were right and there is a demon fundamentalist within us all , which we need to be constantly battle against — or at least made aware of . |
| 11 | A DYING Ayrshire cancer victim , Alfred McTear , is to give evidence for his courtroom damages battle against two tobacco companies in his home next week because of worsening health . |
| 12 | If you use a double-sided backdrop place the side you want against the back of the tank . |
| 13 | I said he said no , I said why you want against her , he said yeah , he said what and he said I would of got up and actually run . |
| 14 | Others spend their ill-gotten gains on fast chariots which they race against each other , trying to outdo their rivals by having the fastest or flashiest machine . |
| 15 | The Martian encampment they find may be deserted but the lichen-like vegetation , triggered into accelerated growth by a light drizzle of rain , proves more than just a minor hazard for the astronauts as they race against time to repair the ship . |
| 16 | We lead more private lives today than ever before , a defence perhaps against the masses who press against us in the tubes , in the office , at school . |
| 17 | They now spontaneously assemble into rods which press against the membrane of the red blood cell deforming it from a rounded into a sickle shape . |
| 18 | These cells , often called ‘ prehaustorial cells ’ , are the ones that press against the host , and possibly soften its surface . |
| 19 | And something stilled within her as in that instant she caught a tantalising waft of the rich , dark scent of him and felt the hard , powerful warmth of him press against her . |
| 20 | Watchdog supports press against Mellor |
| 21 | Police say against the wrong victim , the stun gun could be deadly . |
| 22 | The appeals process against her execution had been concluded on March 27 , 1990 , when the Supreme Court had upheld the death sentence . |
| 23 | Milton was advised that this ‘ will be a means to make most of the Trades fly against the present sett . |
| 24 | ‘ Measure the service you provide against what you would like in similar circumstances . ’ |
| 25 | We petition against the Act , a petition to go from every parish . |
| 26 | It was n't a conscious move on her part , and yet , once open to his erotically roving tongue , she was helpless to do anything except melt against him with a low moan as the same desire as yesterday curled through her stomach . |
| 27 | More than £250,000 gate money was taken for the second day of the June test against Pakistan , and the decision could open the floodgates for other claims . |
| 28 | England 's selectors must decide this weekend whether to give the 21-year-old his big chance in the second Ashes Test against Australia . |
| 29 | A SPRAINED ankle will prevent Wallaby hero David Campese from playing before the November 21 Test against Wales at Cardiff Arms Park . |
| 30 | disc-shaped or ellipsoidal grains ( the regular grains of Vinopal & coogan , 1978 ) simply slip against each other . |