Example sentences of "have to defend [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is entitled to complain that it has to defend itself against attacks from an equally uneasy fusion of Daily Telegraph Toryism and free-market radicalism — so that it gets criticised both for going downmarket , and for not going far enough downmarket . |
| 2 | Less persuasively , a people which has had to defend itself against an enduring hostility is shown , for the most part , as free from fear , and , in particular , from the fear that exceeds and mistakes its objects . |
| 3 | I flung the sporting pistol I had looted on to the back seat , relieved to think I would never have to defend myself with it . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't have to defend myself to you , or explain myself , especially when you 've just said that the truth is irrelevant ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You do n't have to defend yourself to me . ’ |
| 6 | The Government will have to defend itself at an international legal inquiry against allegations that the SAS operated a shoot-to-kill policy . |
| 7 | But in practical terms , the organizational imperative to avoid appeal means modifying demands in the course of negotiations if there is any suggestion that the agency might have to defend itself in an appeal : ‘ we try to see ’ , said a senior officer , ‘ there are no grounds for reasonable objection . ’ |
| 8 | In one incident a police officer had to defend himself with a truncheon against a girl threatening him with a piece of broken glass . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | Hence these come to be re-incorporated by workers who then collectively have to defend themselves from being overwhelmed , i.e. , having their internal fears confirmed . |