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• If you swim against the current, you must work harder.
• The kennel was put against the back wall.
• We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine.[...]As we reached the lodge we heard the whistle, and we backed up against one side of the platform as the train pulled up at the other.
• The giant was silhouetted against the door.
• The puppy rested its head against a paw.
• The rain pounds against the window.
• Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.
• He stands out against his local classmates.
• The Tigers will play against the Bears this weekend.
• “[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
• The breakthrough came through Torres who, pilloried for his miss against Manchester United a week earlier, scored his second goal of the season.
• Are you against freedom of choice?  I'd bet against his succeeding.
• Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.
• Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[...]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation,. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better. These rarities may be new mutations, or they can be existing ones that are neutral—or are even selected against—in a wild population. A good example is mutations that disrupt seed dispersal, leaving the seeds on the heads long after they are ripe.
• He turned the umbrella against the wind.
• Monoclonal antibodies were raised against these proteins: IN-1 and IN-2 bound both to the 35 kd and 250 kd inhibitors and to the surface of differentiated cultured oligodendrocytes.
• He wrote to a friend of his, that he lived but with browne bread and water, and entreated him to send him a piece of cheese, against the time he was to make a solemne feast.
• Thence she them brought into a stately Hall, / Wherein were many tables faire dispred, / And ready dight with drapets festiuall, / Against the viaundes should be ministred.
• He now gave Mrs Deborah positive orders to take the child to her own bed, and to call up a maid-servant to provide it pap, and other things, against it waked.
• Are you for the new ring road? No, I'm against.
• The second favourite won the race at odds of two to one against.
• Do you have something against it?