Example sentences of "fight on the [adj] side " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wants to be friends with America because he thinks only American intervention will secure his aims ( he offered in the Gulf war to send 200,000 Sikhs to fight on the American side ) . |
| 2 | But the alliance with Athens must have been renewed before the beginning of the Peloponnesian War when Thessalians fought on the Athenian side again ( Thuc. ii.22 ) . |
| 3 | The gathering was small but that did not diminish the effect of the occasion as two of only 12 remaining Scottish survivors — out of 500 Scots who fought on the republican side in the Spanish Civil War — gathered with district council representatives to pay their respects at a simple ceremony . |
| 4 | From now on he either fought on the French side or acted as a neutral between the parties . |
| 5 | The crossbow , most useful in defence when the crossbowman , who needed protection for the time required to wind up his weapon , could hide himself behind a wall , was an elitist weapon , most effective in the hands of Gascons , who fought in Wales for Edward I , and of Genoese , a large contingent of whom fought on the French side at Crécy . |
| 6 | Thus both Castile and Genoa became suppliers of galleys which often fought on the French side , notably in 1416 when the Genoese provided part of the fleet which suffered defeat at the hands of the English at the battle of the Seine , off Harfleur . |
| 7 | There is a war on , Britain is fighting on the right side . |
| 8 | Their other purpose was apparently to bring Israel into the war ( probably entraining Israeli violation of Jordanian territory or at least its airspace ) , in the expectation that no Arab government could risk fighting on the Israeli side . |
| 9 | Others , clearly fighting on the same side as the Egyptians , additionally wear helmets and short-cropped ox-hide tunics , indicating that they are foreigners . |
| 10 | They had been fighting on the same side in a war which is often erroneously characterised as an ethnic conflict ; fighting for what the Serb guerrillas call the ‘ Muslim side ’ . |
| 11 | He said he had thought they had all been fighting on the German side because they had all been under a German commander when surrendering . |
| 12 | ‘ Their fathers are fighting on the Serbian side . |
| 13 | Neither Count Louis de Nevers , who died in 1346 fighting on the French side at Grécy , nor his successor Louis de Mâle supported the towns in their negotiations with Edward , and both remained loyal to their French suzerain despite the pressures which Edward brought to bear on Flanders . |
| 14 | Thousands of workers lost their jobs , and the railways ' staffing needs were met by an influx of combatants who had fought on the nationalist side in the civil war ; a war that was commonly referred to by the victors , and indeed in RENFE documents of this period , as the ‘ war of national liberation ’ . |
| 15 | LORD ALDINGTON told the High Court yesterday he was not surprised that tens of thousands of Yugoslavs , many of whom had fought on the German side , feared repatriation at the end of the war . |
| 16 | There were further heavy losses during World War II , in which a substantial volunteer detachment fought on the German side . |
| 17 | But it was not just a question of punishment ; for those who had fought on the winning side there were rewards to reap . |
| 18 | They were often assisted by ordinary Spaniards who , having fought on the winning side , now took the law into their own hands to wreak vengeance on their fellow- citizens . |
| 19 | On June 20-24 in Narbonne police ( and , later , CRS riot police ) clashed with " Harki " youths — the children of Algerians who had fought on the French side during the Algerian war of independence . |