у, рядом, по соседству (указывает на местоположение около чего-либо)
о, в, к (указывает на соприкосновение с чем-либо; столкновение в результате движения).
I ran upstairs, but when I got to my door I realized I’d shut it behind me with the key inside. I started banging my head against it, yelling, 'Shit, shit!'
Strangling, suffocating, sometimes one uppermost and sometimes the other, dragging over the jagged bottom, smashing against rocks and snags, they veered in to the bank.
Some were barrels really empty, some were tubs neatly packed with a dwarf each; but down they all went, one after another, with many a clash and a bump, thudding on top of ones below, smacking into the water, jostling against the walls of the tunnel, knocking into one another, and bobbing away down the current.
He squeezed the trigger of the automatic rifle gently and it pounded back three times against his shoulder with the slippery jolt the recoil of a tripoded automatic weapon gives.
о, к, на (указывает на опору, контакт, соприкосновение с чем-либо)
на (фоне) (указывает на фон для какого-либо предмета)
на, против (указывает на движение в противоположном направлении)