Example sentences of "they against " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coolly Bunty turned to give a final look in the mirror ; then put her fingers to her lips and , as she passed Conroy , pressed them against his . |
| 2 | A pulse of pressure from behind threw them against the factor , he turned and jumped for the door , beat on it , it opened abruptly , and he fell inside . |
| 3 | ‘ We will have the psychological edge over them , ’ Jonah Barrington , the coach , said , even though he had seen Del Harris , Bryan Beeson and Jason Nicolle fail to purloin even a single game between them against their rampaging opponents . |
| 4 | No doubt they chose their paper partly with that bias in mind while they felt that television bias was being inflicted upon them against their will . |
| 5 | Like the latter , Genet inverts and subverts the surface/depth binary , confirming and exploiting the connections between the paradoxical and the perverse , and turning them against the regimes , heterosexual and otherwise , which outlaw the deviant . |
| 6 | The successes of history belong to those who are capable of seizing these rules , to replace those who had used them , to disguise themselves so as to pervert them , invert their meaning , and redirect them against those who had initially imposed them … so as to overcome the rulers through their own rules . |
| 7 | Some observers also calculate that , if one takes account of the profits forgone from these enterprises in future years and sets them against the revenues raised now , the government may have sold the assets at too low a price . |
| 8 | This guaranteed that the water fell to the ground just clear of the walls , so protecting them against damp , discoloration and decay . |
| 9 | No confusion was found when they tested them against 200 different isolates of the same , but genetically unmodified , bacterium taken from lake water . |
| 10 | In contrast , most local clergymen seek to serve their local communities and defend them against Bucharest 's policies of assimilation . |
| 11 | In the wartime agreement on pooling brains and resources for the original work on the atomic bomb , which was signed at Quebec in 1943 between the United States and Britain in association with Canada , there were five clauses : the signatories would not use atomic weapons against each other ; they would not use them against third parties without the others ' consent ; no information would be given to third parties without mutual consent ; Britain disclaimed any interest in commercial and industrial exploitation , because the heavy burden of production would fall on the United States ; and a Combined Policy Committee would be set up to ensure full and effective collaboration . |
| 12 | European diplomats say that Reginald Bartholomew , the under-secretary of state for security assistance , has warned them against doing anything with the WEU that undermines NATO or freezes out the Americans from security talks at which they think they are entitled to be present . |
| 13 | They even got the transparency of the house the wrong way round in their ‘ Country Homes ’ magazine , but their name and reputation insulated them against such elementary errors . |
| 14 | to me hold them against their will ? '' ’ |
| 15 | The hideous iron railings round the tombs of the more opulent dead were intended to protect them against the depredations of body-snatchers . |
| 16 | Ear-tagged lambs traceable back to source at every stage will be delivered by approved hauliers to processors , who will check them against retailers ' specifications . |
| 17 | He certainly talked about such things , defended them against some of their critics ; but his business , what engrossed him and what he knew well , was the school . |
| 18 | I saw them against Genoa and I was very impressed . |
| 19 | Labour says that although it would hand the opted-out schools back to the authorities that used to control them , it would protect them against discrimination . |
| 20 | It has become a confrontation , them against us , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Japanese chemists have synthesised a large number of isoprenyl and isoprenoxyl derivatives and tested them against animal models . |
| 22 | At the junction of the Welford branch , a boat from Welford met them with ample supplies of refreshments to fortify them against the passage of Bosworth tunnel . |
| 23 | Or it may abrade ; picking up silt , sand , or even rocks and grinding them against the rock beneath . |
| 24 | In 1905 , at age 48 , he walked 200 yards , ran 200 yards , cycled 200 yards , rowed 200 yards and swam 200 yards , all in under a total of eight minutes , and in 1903 he had swum five miles in the Thames ( two of them against the tide ) . |
| 25 | At the other a skinny youth was going through a pile of invoices , checking them against what must be a goods-inward book . |
| 26 | It was vital , the Central Committee in Moscow decided , that all Party members support the free development of the Ukrainian language and culture , and defend them against Russification . |
| 27 | They have waxy cell walls which perhaps protect them against many antibacterial substances . |
| 28 | Axelrod translated all 15 strategies into one common programming language , and set them against one another in one big computer . |
| 29 | However , it has been as captain that he has excelled ; as the record of his club 's ‘ Cinderella side ’ demonstrates — 12 wins , seven draws and only seven losses ( two of them against immeasurably senior opposition ) . |
| 30 | Keep them in this position and place them against the hands of your partner so that you are in physical contact ( See Fig. 1 ) . |