Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] fight for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Euro MP for Cheshire West , Lyndon Harrison , who has fought for Kemira , says he is delighted with the result . |
| 2 | Euro MP for Cheshire West , Lyndon Harrison , who has fought for Kemira , says he is delighted with the result . |
| 3 | Mr Diplexcito , who has fought for three years to get a suitable house for his family — he has been offered several by the district and regional authorities — said : ‘ My wife and daughters will be staying with relatives , but I only have the car as a roof over my head . |
| 4 | More than 100 police earlier in the day prevented demonstrators from laying wreaths on the graves of German pilots of the Condor region who died fighting for Franco during the Spanish Civil war . |
| 5 | Killed in crossfire … the British soldier who died fighting for the Croatians . |
| 6 | I do n't know who they are — famous men , dead and living , who 've fought for the right things and created and painted in the right way , and unfamous people I know who do n't lie about things , who try not to be lazy , who try to be human and intelligent . |
| 7 | Those who had fought for the King would be exempt from penalties if their properties were small . |
| 8 | Saxe-Weimar 's men were mostly German troops in Dutch service who had fought for Napoleon in the previous wars , and not even Saxe-Weimar himself was certain whether they would now fight against their old comrades . |
| 9 | Intelligence had reported that the Flying Columns were directed by a soldier named Barry who had fought for Britain in the Great War ! |
| 10 | The man who had fought for her , who had killed to protect her . |
| 11 | Hekmatyar , a hardliner who had opposed the Peshawar Accord , regrouped his fighters in the hills to the south of the city and began issuing demands to the new regime , principal among them being the expulsion from Kabul of Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostam , the ethnic Uzbek militia leader who had fought for the Najibullah regime until switching allegiance to Masud in March [ see p. 38847 ] . |
| 12 | Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostam , the ethnic Uzbek leader who had fought for the Najibullah regime until switching allegiance to Masud in March [ see p. 38847 ] and who still commanded the most powerful militia in the country , on June 25 called on all mujaheddin factions in Kabul to cease hostilities . |
| 13 | Politicians fueled rather than played down the belief that Britain should become , in the words of one politician , " a land fit for heroes " once " the war to end all wars " was won — in other words , that provision should be made for those who had fought for King and Country . |
| 14 | The Minister must know that , when Conservative Members attack local authorities , they are attacking — sometimes unconsciously — dedicated men and women who have fought for years to get first-class old folk 's homes . |
| 15 | The announcement ended a protracted controversy by allowing the release of some 200 former supporters of Joshua Nkomo 's ZAPU party ( now absorbed into Mugabe 's ruling ZANU-PF following the December 1987 reconciliation agreement — see pp. 35626 ; 36415 ) , many of whom had fought for ZAPU as guerrillas in Matabeleland during the 1980s . |