Example sentences of "[verb] myself against " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would like to spend one year here , continue my studies and test myself against the best British players . ’ |
| 2 | I threw myself against the cell door and hammered and shouted , crying to be let out . |
| 3 | I threw myself against the wall and prayed . |
| 4 | It was just a question of Mind over Matter , I thought , and tried to steel myself against the physical effects of an increasingly rough ride . |
| 5 | I know I have to steel myself against not being freed . |
| 6 | And I had a strong need to pit myself against her many suitors , and win . |
| 7 | After all , I do n't need to insure myself against Maurice 's treachery any more , do I ? ’ |
| 8 | I flattened myself against the wall . |
| 9 | I ducked around the corner of the alleyway and flattened myself against the wall the way a flounder hugs the ocean floor . |
| 10 | It was the same in all the other areas of my life ; removed from the need to protect myself against the horrors of enhanced eidesis , I began to live as others did , blithely and unconsciously . |
| 11 | I tied the points of my hose , pushing down my shirt , glad to protect myself against the unearthly chill in that ghastly chamber . |
| 12 | I braced myself against the sides of the trench and listened to the explosions and the debris landing on the roof . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's a bomb , ’ I thought , as I braced myself against the walls of the trench waiting for the inevitable explosion . |
| 14 | Yet what I was really doing was hardening myself against disappointment — my mother was going to be abroad when the baby was born . |
| 15 | I start screaming and chucking myself against the window , but it wo n't break . |
| 16 | The usual stratagems and repositionings have failed to induce narcosis in me , so I decide to settle myself against the soft zigzag of her body . |
| 17 | All I have to do is position myself against the banner . |
| 18 | Yes , I am always hopelessly trying to poison myself against her . |
| 19 | Walking 's real difficult now , and I have to stop every now and then to steady myself against a wall or a lamppost . |
| 20 | But he said : ‘ Even if I had been in Austria longer , I would still be able to defend myself against the outrageous charges of behaving like a war criminal — a charge made against no one else . ’ |
| 21 | Second , the specificity of who it is safe to love is related to the ‘ me in you ’ : ‘ I love someone who reflects part of myself , sometimes a hidden or unacknowledged part of myself ; I feel good with a you who either shares my feelings , expresses them for me or helps me to defend myself against them . ’ |
| 22 | Here for nearly 40 years , I have loved to prop myself against a lamp-post with a sketchbook , binoculars , a sandwich and a bottle of wine , to spend an idle hour or two observing the sea . |
| 23 | I steady myself against the wall . |