Example sentences of "to defend herself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a bit late , but Britain 's getting ready to defend herself at last — in case . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ She knows how to defend herself with her nails and her teeth to stop anything happening to her children . |
| 3 | She looked around desperately for something to defend herself with . |
| 4 | ‘ Kirsty MacColl bollocked me about that gay thing , right , because she had to defend herself to the people she knew saying , ‘ Look , Shaun ai n't like that . ’ |
| 5 | Did she not understand that she had no need to fight me , to defend herself from me ? |
| 6 | The decision in 1990 by Britain to join the ERM was , indeed , not the first time this century that she has tried to defend herself from the possible consequences of wrong decisions by her own politicians by linking herself to those made by politicians in another country , through the mechanism of a fixed or managed exchange rate . |
| 7 | Before she 'd had a chance to react , to jump off the bed and snatch the towel , seize some kind of weapon to defend herself from whoever it was prowling around , the bedroom door swung open and the light clicked on . |
| 8 | But Carssier thirty two insisted she only tried to defend herself after Rosemary repeatedly punched her ! |
| 9 | That Colinetta feels it necessary to defend herself against ‘ wayward Tongues ’ [ ML , 1 , 28 ] is characteristic of Leapor 's verse . |
| 10 | In cases of sex murder the victim is not there to defend herself against accusations that her conduct was so dreadful as to excuse , at least partially , the man 's killing her . |
| 11 | Somehow during her affair with Nicholas Sara had lost her ability to defend herself against Lydia . |
| 12 | Luisella had also been the child of a successful businessman , owner of one of the most important chemist 's shops in Treviso , and she too had had brothers who had dominated her childhood , driving her to defend herself in unorthodox ways . |