Example sentences of "to defend [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knives are now a standard part of the criminal 's equipment and it is very difficult for us to defend ourselves without going beyond the law , but there are ways — as you will see later . |
| 2 | ‘ Thomas Hardy called this island the isle of slingers in his books because of the way we used to defend ourselves with slings and stones . |
| 3 | Herbert Morrison wrote shortly before the 1933 Labour Party Conference : If the Socialist League point of view were approved by the Party it would drive us to defend ourselves for the greater part of our time against Tory allegations of Bolshevism and dictatorship . |
| 4 | It seemed a good place to defend ourselves against Silver and his men , because we were sure they would kill us when they returned to the ship . |
| 5 | Obviously it had been a fight , but since Fairbrother was a newcomer to the school , aggressive and ever ready to defend himself with insults , no particular motive was assigned to either party . |
| 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 | In 1415 , Hus was summoned to defend himself at the Council of Constance , having been assured of a safe conduct by the emperor Sigismund . |
| 8 | Mr Saunders has already been granted legal aid of up to £275,000 to defend himself against fraud charges in the criminal courts , but he may have to pay whole or part of that money back if the trial judge so decides . |
| 9 | Whether or not he does it , every person has a duty to God not to ‘ harm another in his life , … liberty , … or goods ’ , and so has a parallel right to defend himself against such attack . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Not knowing whether to interpret or not , and trying to decide between two impossible alternatives , is a characteristic problem for the ‘ nervous ’ Mr Palomar who , ‘ to defend himself against the general neurasthenia … tries to keep his sensations under control insofar as possible ’ ( 4 ) . |
| 12 | So was it reasonable for the driver to step in and use his car to defend himself against a gang armed with lumps of concrete ? |
| 13 | This all sounds like dashing stuff , but if his sheer audacity had not carried the day , he would have been unable to defend himself against so many . |
| 14 | While the duped adversary prepared to defend himself against the apparently raised weapon , the student 's left hand would draw the upside-down dagger from his belt and plunge it into his rival 's stomach . |
| 15 | Strict laws regulated every aspect of slave behaviour , restricting the slave 's right to travel , to defend himself against attacks by whites , and to use as he might wish what little leisure time was available . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In practising a form , the student is taught to defend himself against a series of imaginary opponents . |
| 19 | But it should also be mentioned that Sultan Qaboos overthrew his own father and needed the military support of the Shah and the SAS to defend himself against those of his countrymen not recognizing the benefits of his traditional Arab-Islamic leadership . |
| 20 | He was helpless to defend himself against the terrible gleaming weapon in the fist of the menacing black figure looming over him . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It told him to come to the court on a certain day to defend himself before a Commissioner and the man who said he owed him money . |
| 23 | Trying to defend himself from the verbal barrage , Col Mladenovic moved closer to his two bodyguards and said softly : ‘ You people left the Army . |
| 24 | At his trial at the end of January 1990 , Postelnicu blubbed out his guilt in connection with the shootings in Timişoara and the incineration of the forty victims there , but he was anxious to defend himself from charges of cupidity . |
| 25 | Neil responded by lifting the cane high , ready to defend himself from a man who he saw was bigger , and probably stronger , than himself . |
| 26 | The Government will have to defend itself at an international legal inquiry against allegations that the SAS operated a shoot-to-kill policy . |
| 27 | Fortunately the city has long been protected by the sorcerous Shifting Isles but its ability to defend itself in the event of a serious invasion has long been in doubt . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | Heterodoxy or heresy originally arises as opposed to doxa , which takes the shape of ‘ orthodoxy ’ to defend itself from the heretical challenge . |
| 30 | 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 . |