Example sentences of "[pron] had been fighting [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A report in the Sept. 10 edition of the Far Eastern Economic Review described the activities of the United Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Races ( Fulro ) , the Montagnard guerrilla army which had been fighting for autonomy in the Central Highlands since the 1960s . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In a copy of Burma Today for March 1945 , which has somehow survived in my papers , I see an editorial which I wrote under the heading ‘ Britain 's Best Ambassador ’ , namely the BOR ( British Other Ranks ) , who had been fighting for over three years to liberate Burma . |
| 5 | Also , in October 1949 , the Communists ' who had been fighting in the Greek Civil War , ceased fighting . |
| 6 | Earlier , there had been fighting at Mannar on Aug. 1 as the LTTE attacked an advancing troop convoy ; naval artillery was used against rebel positions on Aug. 3 for the first time since the resumption of large-scale fighting on June 11 ; and a major clash took place on Aug. 4-5 , involving the repulsing of an unsuccessful rebel attack against the Jaffna fort . |
| 7 | He said there had been fighting between Croat and Muslim militiamen around the town . |
| 8 | Lt Col Stewart said there had been fighting between Croat and Muslim militiamen around the town . |
| 9 | He knew there had been fighting about Charleroi , and he had heard of some skirmishes being fought in the villages south of the Prince of Orange 's headquarters , but whether the French had invaded in force , or whether there was an attack coming in the direction of Mons , the Duke still did not know . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Tom Dawson had hovered on the brink between life and death , and all the time they had worked so desperately to save him , she had been aware that it was n't just one life they had been fighting for but two . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 : |
| 14 | He had said he had been fighting with another man . |
| 15 | As Gabriel worked on the top of the ricks , he suddenly remembered that , eight months before , he had been fighting against fire in the same place as desperately as he was fighting against water now — and for love of the same woman , who did not love him . |