Example sentences of "[adv prt] fighting [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They bowed out of the European Cup at the hands of Dinamo Tbilisi , but they certainly went down fighting in front of around 6 , spectators . |
| 2 | When he was voted the English League 's Player of the Year in 1973 , the Sunday Telegraph marvelled at his new maturity , and described his transformation as being ‘ like Attila The Hun giving up fighting for sculpture . ’ |
| 3 | The extreme diehards had written off Law as the dupe of Lloyd George because he did not come out fighting against coalition policies , hence the witticism that the coalition was an alliance between a flock of sheep led by a , crook and a flock of crooks led by a sheep . |
| 4 | A hell of a roar went up in the canteen at lunch break when one of the shop stewards said that Clasper would go on fighting on behalf of the workers until every bloody one of them had lost their jobs . |
| 5 | Miss Lamb , of Marton , Middlesbrough , said she would carry on fighting on behalf of all the investors . |