Example sentences of "[adv] goes against " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Striking women always goes against the grain with me . ’ |
| 2 | None the less , in the realm of human events , the teaching of Jesus still goes against our conventional suppositions , because we all assume that big outcomes need big inputs . |
| 3 | Even so , this kind of exercise probably goes against the grain for a large number of readers , who will ask " What is the point ? " |
| 4 | Really goes against the grain to see . |
| 5 | ‘ That certainly goes against what was preached by Olympic bid co-ordinators in the early days , but there is a difficult balancing act . |