Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been fighting " in BNC.
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| 1 | There crawled into my mind one nasty little question that I 'd been fighting off till now . |
| 2 | What I had been fighting for for all these years — the right for gay people to live their lives openly with dignity and respect — was actually happening , and in the most unlikely of places . |
| 3 | When I replied that I had been fighting for the extra 200,000 I had managed to achieve , I was remonstrated with for having put the business at risk . |
| 4 | I 've been fighting this b |
| 5 | I 've been fighting this battle for four years and we 've eventually got there . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been fighting the inevitable for too long , darling . |
| 7 | For more than thirty years I have been fighting for them . |
| 8 | Realistically , I have been fighting against the odds since I took over . |
| 9 | As long as she 'd been fighting him there had still been a hope that she might eventually emerge the victor . |
| 10 | She 'd felt as if she 'd been fighting with Guy Sterne all her life ! |
| 11 | In the launderette it was warm and cosy ; here Maggie made friends and fans and she had inconsequential conversations which mysteriously made her a member of the local community in a way she had never been when she had been fighting for the area 's well-being . |
| 12 | Reluctantly she rose to her feet , her breathing loud and harsh , the weariness she had been fighting since the air raids started overpowering her senses . |
| 13 | She had been fighting this insidious physical attraction , trying to deny its existence ever since they 'd met . |
| 14 | I notice you have been fighting , so maybe your errand was not so slight . |
| 15 | ‘ We 've been fighting each other like spoilt kids instead of fighting the real enemy , our international competitors . |
| 16 | And friendship with Clan Diarmaid , that we 've been fighting off and on for five generations ! |
| 17 | New York cabbie Jimmy said : ‘ It 's been a long , awful struggle that we 've been fighting since we were kids . |
| 18 | We 've been fighting about money of late , but then again it might be my face . |
| 19 | Miriam : Yes , but you must remember that through the efforts of the older generation we have been fighting it , we have n't been tolerating it passively . |
| 20 | Likewise in 1711 Jonathan Swift complained that " we have been fighting … to enrich usurers and stockjobbers ; and to cultivate the pernicious designs of a faction , by destroying the landed interest " . |
| 21 | That 's what they 'd been fighting for for twenty years . |
| 22 | Maurice Hope held a similar view , though he favoured social rather than genetic factors : ‘ Black people are natural fighters ; they 've been fighting for survival and they 've been in that condition all their lives . |
| 23 | They 've been fighting out there for bloody years . ’ |
| 24 | DETECTIVES investigating an alleged attack on two prisoners found unconscious in their cell were yesterday working on the theory they had been fighting each other . |
| 25 | However , the spokesman said : ‘ It now looks as though they had been fighting each other and nobody else was involved . ’ |
| 26 | Most of the ‘ masters ’ of torture said that they had been fighting a desperate unseen war , whose atmosphere could not be imagined by people from democracies . |
| 27 | They were now expected to settle down with the very people with whom they had been fighting and who had been responsible for killing some of their comrades-in-arms . |
| 28 | Here is a moment when the danger to the dismasted Hurrying Angel becomes apparent to the exhausted crew as the light grows and they can view the sea they had been fighting in the dark : |
| 29 | " There was one very difficult principle that we were up against which I did not really know about to start with … that in accordance with the general surrender everyone was supposed to surrender to the Allied Army against whom they had been fighting . |
| 30 | Theory 1 — Many in the West felt that the presence of police governments in the West did not represent what the people of Europe had fought for — they had been fighting for freedom of speech and democracy and the communist presence meant they had failed . |