Example sentences of "it against " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know what a slow comfortable screw is , Francis , ’ said Jay in her best Mae West , ‘ but I ai n't never done it against a wall . ’ |
| 2 | At 20 years old he is a Grand Slam winner and he achieved it against Agassi in a slugging final that in the end had the 17.000 crowd at Roland Garros on their feet . |
| 3 | The clip is dual-purpose in that as well as holding the slate in position , it also secures it against wind uplift which is a possible cause of the original slippage . |
| 4 | Her father was a magician ; he knew something of the old magic , but he turned it against the little people to whom it belonged , and demanded their money , their livestock and even their children to appease the gods with rivers of blood . |
| 5 | The problem is that if one of the projects you tell them about goes wrong , as inevitably it will , they 're inclined to hold it against you . |
| 6 | He was doing it against me . ’ |
| 7 | She picks up this blue skirt and holds it against her legs and then puts it back on the rail . |
| 8 | The glass ball 's pretty warm now and I press it to my cheek and sort of roll it against my skin . |
| 9 | His stomach seemed to be floating on a rising tide that compressed it against his sternum . |
| 10 | When it goes off you throw it against the wall to stop the noise . |
| 11 | Fears of a ‘ credit crunch ’ have prompted policy changes at the Federal Reserve in recent months : the Fed has cut its benchmark interest rate four times and , a bolder move , has reduced the amount of reserves that banks are obliged to hold with it against their customers ' deposits . |
| 12 | Some of those subsidies went into persuading Daimler-Benz to take over most of Germany 's aerospace industry ( see page 87 ) , by guaranteeing it against some future losses risked in making Airbuses . |
| 13 | ‘ You break it in half and just stick it against your skin , and it stays there . ’ |
| 14 | He kept on , and it was worse because he 'd got hold of the helmet now and was smashing it against the toilet . |
| 15 | He squatted down and propped it against a clump of little bushes , pulling up the aerial as far as it would go . |
| 16 | Of course , one ca n't hold it against him . |
| 17 | To form a New Testament canon was to give special importance to the written tradition , imparting a fixity which protected it against adulteration . |
| 18 | It is always necessary to set it against a more general background or to establish the conventions and limitations adopted by the makers of these small and almost two-dimensional objects . |
| 19 | ‘ But I did n't hold it against her in any way . ’ |
| 20 | Elisabeth took her bicycle from where she had lent it against the garden fence . |
| 21 | ‘ They do n't hold it against me , do they ? ’ |
| 22 | To call it a remarkable sight is to set it against today 's standards . |
| 23 | An in-depth review of 6,000 of the group 's 11,000 free-trade loans found that on top of £10m to be provided against beer profits , a further £37m was needed to cover it against potential problems on 2,000 accounts . |
| 24 | He had a hammer and banged it against the walls to restore order but nobody took any notice of him . |
| 25 | He had made himself an internal picture of me and now only examined it against my external appearance ’ . |
| 26 | At this point Darrel snatched the child from her arms , strode to the open fireplace , pressed it against the blazing logs with his riding boot and held it there until no more sound came from its tiny body . |
| 27 | More than once , though , she slipped in close and slid his dirk from its sheath , in case he should use it against himself . |
| 28 | ‘ So gummy that you could throw it against a wall and it would stick , ’ It was known as ska , blue beat or rocksteady , and collectively as reggae . |
| 29 | But it is n't like you to hold it against me . ’ |
| 30 | Henry licked his finger , then rubbed it against his trouser leg . |