Example sentences of "[verb] himself against [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The patient was shortly afterwards transferred to the National Hospital , but quite soon discharged himself against medical advice , evidently heedless of the fact that the Board had agreed to pay 2s.6d per day for his maintenance there . |
| 2 | But he continued to insure himself against such social accidents as might reactivate his grief by avoiding the streets of Reine and its inhabitants . |
| 3 | They talked endlessly at MacAlister 's rooms in Merton , where Thomas could also measure himself against two further acquaintances , Fyffe and Wharton . |
| 4 | ROGER HOAD is threatening to sue the Jockey Club for the Pounds 5,500 he spent on successfully defending himself against weight-switching allegations . |
| 5 | His breathing gradually slowed as he propped himself against one edge of the desk , drinking . |
| 6 | Whether or not he does it , every person has a duty to God not to ‘ harm another in his life , … liberty , … or goods ’ , and so has a parallel right to defend himself against such attack . |
| 7 | Words with which he hoped to defend himself against imagined conspiracies , actual confession , real Guilts , and words that would too explicitly , too protestingly deny too much of the substance of his own present thoughts as he looked at the girl and his own former behaviour with many , many more of her kind . |
| 8 | But it should also be mentioned that Sultan Qaboos overthrew his own father and needed the military support of the Shah and the SAS to defend himself against those of his countrymen not recognizing the benefits of his traditional Arab-Islamic leadership . |
| 9 | But primitive man guards himself against that by listening in to the being of the person who is uttering the words and by adding this to his evaluation of the words . |