Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] against [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kerr also recalled playing against a pioneer of ‘ Bodyline ’ , Fred Root , at Worcester , and seeing both Hobbs and Sutcliffe score hundreds in the last first-class match of the tour for H.D.G. Leveson Gower 's XI at Scarborough . |
| 2 | British troops in Burma , having been forced back , soon learnt the requirements of jungle warfare and , under Wingate , began advancing against the Japanese . |
| 3 | In that year he began campaigning against the brutal system of forced labour employed by Leopold II , king of the Belgians , as absolute personal ruler of the Congo Free State , even though this forced him to leave Elder Dempster , where he had become head of the Congo department . |
| 4 | Its case for wholesale economic , social and political restructuring of the United Kingdom included arguing against the substantial power that the unions had obtained during the corporatist decades of the postwar period , especially within the monopoly nationalized industries . |
| 5 | It started campaigning against the council plans when they emerged last year . |
| 6 | He was much heavier than he looked and the chair kept banging against the rock . |
| 7 | I leaned panting against a lamppost , while Doris tenderly removed the segments of toffee orange and chocolate cake that still clung to my suit . |
| 8 | Councils of the mid-thirteenth century in England continued legislating against the worship of wells and springs , stones and trees , spells and superstitions , and penalties were provided . |
| 9 | He stood blinking against the effect of the lights on his eyes and felt the apprehension disappear under a new wave of feeling — anger . |
| 10 | He stood leaning against the bulkhead , hands resting on the cabin top . |
| 11 | At the top she stood leaning against the wall ; her breathing had become strange . |
| 12 | I stood leaning against the tall coconut palm tree . |
| 13 | Lucy sent a veiled glance towards Silas , who stood leaning against the dressing-table with an amused expression on his face . |
| 14 | She stood leaning against the tiled wall with a towel wrapped around her body . |
| 15 | Therese danced also with Bobbie and Paul ; but most of the time the women in their party danced with the men who between dances stood watching against the wall . |
| 16 | She sat leaning against the white-painted wall in a corner diagonally opposite Lee . |
| 17 | He sat leaning against the back of the seat with his legs stretched out straight in front of him . |