Example sentences of "to protect [pn reflx] against [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because this time we will take measures to protect ourselves against your duplicity . ’ |
| 2 | — The right hon. Gentleman does not need a fig leaf to protect himself against my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover , he needs a suit of armour . |
| 3 | Agnes Smedley 's heroine , Marie , talks about having to shut her mother out , shut off from her , in order to protect herself against her mother 's extraordinary cruelty — while Adrienne Rich works on the feeling of severance , of being deprived of her mother in a culture which insists that the daughters turn away from the mother toward the father . |
| 4 | Cynics — who adopt their attitude as a defence to protect themselves against their hopes being dashed — may ridicule you . |
| 5 | One obvious answer is that they want to protect themselves against their own tendency to act rashly , in the heat of passion . |