Example sentences of "to defend [pn reflx] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In one incident a police officer had to defend himself with a truncheon against a girl threatening him with a piece of broken glass . |
| 4 | ‘ She knows how to defend herself with her nails and her teeth to stop anything happening to her children . |
| 5 | She looked around desperately for something to defend herself with . |
| 6 | I have really bad nightmares of someone pursuing me , or a really big landslide coming down on me , and I race out of my bed and run , run far away and find something to defend myself with , like a candelabra or a bottle . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They may have tried to defend themselves with cooking implements and when begging for mercy used prayers in welsh which may have sounded ‘ foreign ’ to the attackers . |
| 9 | ‘ A high degree of awareness can make the problem worse because some young people are persuaded to carry a knife or weapon to defend themselves with , ’ he said . |
| 10 | But if the worst happens , you have every right to defend yourself with reasonable force . |
| 11 | They 're called a pacifier and you can sort of like use them to strike and to defend yourself with them yeah ? |
| 12 | ‘ You try to defend yourself with words , but they are empty , meaningless , ’ he said . |