Example sentences of "[verb] back against the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Germans , panting for breath , sank back against the ice . |
| 2 | The pound , which has enjoyed a decent run so far this week , was again under pressure and sank back against the mark and the dollar . |
| 3 | Lisa sank back against the sofa , despair rushing through her . |
| 4 | Sighing , she ignored pride 's dictates and sank back against the pillows . |
| 5 | Marguerite left after this little show of determination and Jenna sank back against the pillows , realising that the thought of Alain coming back was a little worrying . |
| 6 | Relieved , she sank back against the pillows , brushed a shaky hand over her eyes . |
| 7 | As she sank back against the cushions a sleek black cat appeared from nowhere and began to wind itself around her ankles . |
| 8 | She sank back against the pillows and threw her arm across her eyes . |
| 9 | Dazed , he staggered back against the console and heard his shotgun clattering to the floor as it slipped from his nerveless fingers . |
| 10 | Instinctively she drew back against the damp cellar wall , willing herself to fuse into the crumbling , whitewashed brickwork . |
| 11 | Now Marc Alexander Vila moved closer , and she found herself surreptitiously pressing back against the stone wall of the turret room she and Peter had been allotted , trying to pretend she did n't care while her breath went ragged with apprehension . |
| 12 | He struck me hard across the mouth so that my head cracked back against the bathroom wall . |
| 13 | His scream echoed madly inside the tunnel as he fell was slammed against the brickwork then bounced back against the speeding train , his body pulped by the impact . |
| 14 | She moved back against the pillow and drew me on top of her . |
| 15 | Maisie pushed past him , and , with a little sigh , the older man moved back against the wall . |
| 16 | He sagged back against the wall , and held out his hand . |
| 17 | From time to time Sherif 's woolly old head , loosely wrapped in a dirty headdress , would fall back against the fly-speckled surface of the remaining quarter of a red sign . |
| 18 | The door burst inward and crashed back against the wall . |
| 19 | Hold the tape measure loosely round the pulled back curtain and hold back against the hook . |
| 20 | But at last she was back in her room , and sinking back against the closed door in a grief that was too deep for tears . |
| 21 | It flung open and slammed back against the wall . |
| 22 | More bangs from the rear of the house , the door through to the kitchen slammed back against the wall , the room filled with soldiers , and in the wrecked doorway a tall , slim officer was making a small ceremony of ushering in a man with long grey hair and a black coat . |
| 23 | The door crashed open and slammed back against the wall with such force it seemed it would come off the hinges . |
| 24 | As I calmly shut the door he cringes back against the wall . |
| 25 | For some moments Harry gazes at them in silence , slowly plucking the lefthand strap of his braces away from the shoulder , and letting it snap back against the shirt . |
| 26 | Outside I could hear rain falling upon the fire-escape and bouncing back against the window . |
| 27 | She said nothing , but only arched back against the soft leather , lost in the tantalising , agonising pleasure of his hands — a pleasure that lit a fire deep inside her , but did nothing to quench it . |
| 28 | The emergence of the superego vastly extended this trend because it represented a characteristically human — or , we might say , neurotic — tendency : namely , an ability to redirect a drive to the extent that it is turned back against the ego itself ( i.e. , hate of the father becomes hate of oneself for hating him ) . |
| 29 | Freud 's finding was that guilt is , starts off as an aggressive drive in the id that could go anywhere , preferably towards other people , but the superego uses some of this aggression and destructive energy arising in the id and then turns it back against the ego , and uses it to punish the ego , so the aggression , instead of going into someone else or into the outside world , is turned back against the self and to that extent is self-destructive . |
| 30 | With a last tearful cuddle , Faye parted with Catherine , then sighed back against the pillows . |