Example sentences of "fight for [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had executed in public deserters from his battalion when it fought for its life on the Basra to Baghdad road . |
| 2 | Last night , as Lesley fought for her life in the intensive care unit at the Royal Liverpool hospital , a 28-year-old man was being questioned by police . |
| 3 | Christine fought for her balance as he grasped her with hooked fingers . |
| 4 | There was also an urgency to protect and preserve while it was still possible to do so : the countryside was in change and this seemed to invigorate the various lobbies which fought for their special interest : flora , fauna , landscape , outdoor recreation and protection from development . |
| 5 | There is one sentiment all the Glosters share from the soldiers of today to the troops who fought for their country 80 years ago . |
| 6 | ‘ He liberated us from the Turks and fought for our independence , ’ said a small boy who waited at the quayside amid a jostling crowd of former monarchs , visiting Serbian bishops and television crews . |
| 7 | Perhaps , like so many others , he sincerely believed that it was a just war and fought for his values in righteousness . |
| 8 | Greta fought for his rehabilitation . |
| 9 | TRIBUTES poured in from showbiz stars as Leslie fought for his life in hospital last night . |
| 10 | Promoters who fought for his services paid appearance money for the wonder dog who could boost attendances by 500 per cent . |
| 11 | HEARTLESS motorists ignored pleas for help from a driver as he fought for his life after being stung by a wasp . |
| 12 | They have to fight for their theories , and face failure when they fall — for no science is written on tablets of stone . |
| 13 | They argue that in some cases parents ' contribution depends on their ‘ tenacity , willingness to fight for their rights and a belief in their children 's educational capacity ’ . |
| 14 | The Armenians — as the Palestinians have often told them — waited too long to fight for their nation . |
| 15 | Ivan Cooper called on the people of Derry to fight for their rights , ‘ as the Blacks in America were fighting ’ . |
| 16 | It 's up to individuals to continue to fight for their beliefs after the trendiness vanishes . |
| 17 | By relating belief to duty in this fashion , Gandhi is able to claim that he would have no compunction under Swarāj , self-governing India , in recommending those who had no objection to talking up arms , to fight for their country . |
| 18 | If we were to argue that , as a firm believer in the way of ahi sā and an unequivocal opponent of war with its brutalizing tendencies and degrading effects , Gandhi 's moral responsibility could hardly be regarded as extending to recommending people to fight for their country , it might seem difficult at first sight to know what his response would be other than that if a man is unable to choose the higher path of ahi sā , he should be encouraged to fulfil the obligations of the choice of the lower path of duty to his country . |
| 19 | The regionals , whose strength tends to be in ales , have found it hard to fight for their own-brand lagers in an image-conscious market , when the big brewers can put massive advertising spending behind their products . |
| 20 | Gradually they enlist the help of the Thals , persuading them to overcome their pacifist lifestyle and to fight for their share of this planet . |
| 21 | For many the initial reason for entering a progressive health organization is to fight for their own rights and welfare . |
| 22 | All the women we spoke to agreed that it 's up to the families themselves to fight for their rights and recognition — sadly no one else is going to do it for them . |
| 23 | But that was when women still expected to have to fight for their rights . |
| 24 | I do not think that that would have been the attitude of the young men who were very keen to fight for their country and to serve with their compatriots . |
| 25 | A mob of 400 labourers on Nacton Heath told the magistrates that " they came to fight for their liberties " . |
| 26 | These ideas failed to allow for Austrian objections to Russian gains in the Balkans and grossly exaggerated the inclination of the Balkan Slavs to fight for their freedom , but they had the virtue of giving the tsar time to negotiate . |
| 27 | Farmer Peter Smith and his wife Dulcie arrived at Coleford Magistrates Court in the Forest of Dean prepared to fight for their right to a home and a job . |
| 28 | Mmembers themselves say being part of a national union gives them a voice to fight for their rights . |
| 29 | The politicians in Washington are there to fight for their state and the conflicts in Washington are not conflicts between , so much between the states and the federal government , as conflicts between the states for different advantages . |
| 30 | This is because each agency has to fight for its share of the overall intelligence budget and in the process exaggerates and distorts its reports so as to pander to the whims of those who hold the purse-strings . |