Example sentences of "[verb] against each [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | American lady says its two schools rowing against each other … true amateurs and its wonderful |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ They wanted us to work against each other . |
| 5 | Interest rates will have to remain painfully high for some months , and departmental spending will be made to stay within the current planning totals : even the big-spending ministers recognise they are involved in bidding against each other , rather than against the Treasury . |
| 6 | ‘ She 'd make anything go , ’ the girl said , a second after reading a paragraph on the front page of Variety about two big London managements — no mention of him — that were bidding against each other for the show . |
| 7 | At common law it appears to be doubtful whether an agreement for a " knockout " , ie a contract between interested bidders to refrain from bidding against each other , was illegal . |
| 8 | disc-shaped or ellipsoidal grains ( the regular grains of Vinopal & coogan , 1978 ) simply slip against each other . |
| 9 | That the Empire grew in power is certain , but there were civil wars , periods where there was no Emperor , where rival Emperors warred against each other , and times when Orcs and Goblins plundered the lands . |
| 10 | Specific antibodies are made against each germ , and these become markers for that infection . |
| 11 | I did n't reply because all at once we were caught up in a crush of people who seemed to erupt from nowhere , running , pushing against each other . |
| 12 | One person does n't wan na lose and the other one wants to win and is going to go backwards and forwards you just end up pushing and pushing and pushing against each other , pointless . |
| 13 | Each strategy was matched against each other strategy an equal number of times . |
| 14 | There has been racing at York since roman times when horses were matched against each other about a mile to the north of the city . |
| 15 | All of these ideas can be prejudged for the correct answers , which can then be very quickly matched against each entry . |
| 16 | Two hot-water bottles slumped against each other in the crevasse that Nannie had left in her mattress . |
| 17 | I suspect Greenhill was referring specifically to a dearth in the cultural analysis of policing , while his use of the duality of ‘ sides ’ reveals another parallel binary to that of ‘ cops and robbers ’ , with the police and sociology arraigned against each other in yet another of the wars which the police wage against those who defile the sanctity of their definition of the concept of order . |
| 18 | Croatian and Bosnian forces turned against each other in mid-October , and the towns of Vitez and Novi Travnik were taken by Croatian forces . |
| 19 | One indication of that was that at the request of the British , both sides agreed to stop the radio propaganda campaigns they have been waging against each other . |
| 20 | Four or five storeys high , they tottered against each other , held up only by the shells of neighbouring structures , their innards shrivelled up by fire , a real Dresden of a street . |
| 21 | In part this complements the manner in which cities are increasingly economic actors competing against each other in the new global economy ( Hill , 1984 ) . |
| 22 | The Puma Challenge , for boys and girls under the age of 14 , will see school teams competing against each other during the summer , in four sports , namely athletics , tennis , soccer and hockey with the finals being played at the Gosling Sports Centre in Welwyn Garden City in September . |
| 23 | But once pounds and deutschmarks and francs and lira were all competing against each other in every high street , their exchange rates would always reflect what each currency could actually buy . |
| 24 | One kind is the establishment of joint ventures for exporting : the justification is that they can share the fixed costs , and pool expertise , in penetrating foreign markets , and that they can avoid competing against each other for foreign orders . |
| 25 | Rath rather than competing against each other to develop basically their products have got ta be ab able to work with each others machines . |
| 26 | Chart Thai , Samakki Tham , Prachakorn Thai and the Social Action Party announced on Jan. 23 that they would avoid competing against each other in the general election . |
| 27 | Operations staff do the same course , together with sales staff , sometimes competing against each other and sometimes working together . |
| 28 | Richard Phelps and Graham Brookhouse … they were in the British team at the Olympics in Barcelona … this weekend they 're competing against each other for the British Title in Bedford … |
| 29 | Now we could hear nightingales again , singing against each other in the woodland scrub . |
| 30 | Eva and my father were going into the front room , hand-in-hand , and they were reaching for each other low down , and clutching , tongues out , pressed against each other even before they 'd got through the door . |