Example sentences of "to fend for [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bob is advising Clinton how to cope when he leaves Stoke Mandeville in a couple of months time and has to fend for himself in his own home : |
| 2 | And if African destitution has its roots in this shameful period of depopulation , so too does what was to become a family 's main defense against the poverty enforced on those left to fend for themselves without the strong young bodies they had counted on . |
| 3 | Domestic cats left to fend for themselves in the wild would still spend much of their time asleep , and conserve their energy for hunting at dawn and dusk . |
| 4 | In one town , however , second wave fundholders had been told to fend for themselves by those in the first wave . |
| 5 | In the 1960s the Northern Ireland Labour Party ( NILP ) was on the verge of becoming a significant political force , despite the fact that it had been left to fend for itself in very difficult circumstances . |
| 6 | However , despite its diminutive size , it is well able to fend for itself in a mixed community tank , protecting its territory against all comers , even if they happen to be twice its size . |
| 7 | Having dug its way out of the compost heap , it must immediately start to fend for itself in the hostile world of the mallee scrub . |
| 8 | Today , with funding for British Universities squeezed ever tighter by the recession and thirteen years of an unsympathetic Conservative government , the Warburg is being forced to fend for itself in large measure . |
| 9 | Consequently his wife has been left to fend for herself over a variety of matters . |
| 10 | In Susanna Jennens Leapor would have found a woman able to fend for herself in adversity . |
| 11 | There was once a poor shoemaker who had three fine strong sons and two pretty daughters and a third , who could do nothing well , who shivered plates and tangled her spinning , who curdled milk , could not get butter to come , nor set a fire so that smoke did not pour into the room , a useless , hopeless , dreaming daughter , to whom her mother would often say that she should try to fend for herself in the wild wood , and then she would know the value of listening to advice , and of doing things properly . |