Example sentences of "[vb past] to defend [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just tried to defend myself from the blows . ’ |
| 2 | In Chapter 5 we saw how natural philosophers , such as Boyle , tried to defend themselves against charges of encouraging materialistic atheism by suggesting that , since the natural world is God 's creation , the study of it leads towards , not away from , things spiritual . |
| 3 | But Carssier thirty two insisted she only tried to defend herself after Rosemary repeatedly punched her ! |
| 4 | Now , under the impact of guilt and remorse motivated by the positive side of the original ambivalent feelings for the father , the ego sought to defend itself from further conflict with its id by erecting safety measures which would protect it from such distorting and stressful impulses . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In one incident a police officer had to defend himself with a truncheon against a girl threatening him with a piece of broken glass . |
| 7 | Later in the session Noell had to defend himself against accusations of having made an illicit profit out of transporting captured Irish , Scottish , and English Royalist soldiers , political prisoners , and convicted criminals to Barbados ; he denied not the facts of such transportation but the allegations of cruelty and profiteering arising therefrom . |
| 8 | About 1146 Adam became canon of the cathedral of Paris ; as such he took part in the Paris synod of 1147 , presided over by Pope Eugenius III , at which Gilbert of Poitiers had to defend himself against charges of heretical doctrines concerning the nature of God and the Trinity . |
| 9 | The episode marked more problems for the IAAF president , Primo Nebiolo , who on Thursday had to defend himself against accusations that news of Johnson 's positive test had been deliberately delayed in an effort not to cast a cloud over the Toronto event . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Police claimed that they were forced to open fire when the crowd attacked them , whereas the ANC said that several of its supporters , grouped to defend themselves from a pro-Inkatha attack , had been shot down by the police . |
| 12 | The youths attempted to defend themselves by claiming that the girls , who were returning from a pop concert , had consented . |
| 13 | Middleton and Bayles attempted to defend themselves against the allegations , but the 1846 Report mentions the Examiners ' surprise at " the gross ignorance of the boys in divinity " . |