Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] fought 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Those who had fought for the King would be exempt from penalties if their properties were small . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Intelligence had reported that the Flying Columns were directed by a soldier named Barry who had fought for Britain in the Great War ! |
| 8 | The man who had fought for her , who had killed to protect her . |
| 9 | 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 ] . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |