Example sentences of "do battle [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jay was amused by her go-getting energy , especially when Lucy had done battle with yet another charitable trust or foundation . |
| 2 | Bull terrier Bronson had already done battle with two workmen — who fought it off with a shovel — before turning on Questa . |
| 3 | Nilsson discounts the fact that Wednesday , certain to complete their first-round demolition of Spora Luxembourg tomorrow , have not done battle on Continental soil for 29 years . |
| 4 | Local gangs such as the infamous ‘ Forty Row ’ from Ancoats , the ‘ Bengal Tiger ’ from Bengal Street , the ‘ Bungall Boys ’ from Fairfield Street , ‘ Alum Street ’ or ‘ Hope Street ’ from Salford would do battle for neighbourhood supremacy , sometimes retiring to parks or open crofts for these engagements . |
| 5 | I could stay in the house and be marked as frightened , or I could do battle with the elements , making my way to the family as usual . |
| 6 | They will do battle in a series of daredevil duels with 24 volunteers from all over the country chosen for their speed , stamina , fitness and agility from over 2,000 hopefuls . |
| 7 | Some , like the women 's TA course , are dressing fur their end-of-course party , while others are preparing to do battle during their night patrol exercise . |
| 8 | Had we kept the scheme going , we could soon have accumulated a sizeable fighting force , ready to do battle on land , sea or air and happy to seize the controls of any passing battle-sub . |
| 9 | A few reassurances later and she was on her way to do battle at the bridge table . |
| 10 | Furthermore , as the gilded eagle seems poised for take-off to do battle with enemy hordes coming from the south-east , the memorial seems to have anticipated most aptly the events that followed 17 years after its unveiling . |
| 11 | So instead , a confident horseperson was engaged to do battle with Honey , but after riding her for two weeks Honey 's behaviour was worse . |
| 12 | Apart from those of us who can afford to throw eggs , the electorate has little chance to do battle with our would-be lords and masters . |
| 13 | And they took counsel and made a letter for the leader of the army of the Almoravides , wherein they told him that the Cid had made a treaty with the King of Aragon , whereby the King bound himself to help him against them ; and they bade him beware how he came towards Valencia , unless he chose to do battle with eight thousand Christian horsemen , covered with iron , and the best warriors in the world . |
| 14 | The hero , a knight named Peter Loschy , went to do battle with the dragon . |
| 15 | The ferret is generally recognised as a powerful opponent and few other creatures would want to do battle with her . |
| 16 | Cod separated the pair for fear they would reproduce , and eventually forced them to do battle with each other . |
| 17 | Born in 1964 , but out of production since 1984 , this once all-conquering hero will be re-emerging in late February , ready to do battle with upstart Thunderbirds and other toytown insurgents . |
| 18 | His eyes were totally unyielding , the eyes of the Arab ready to do battle with me , with any man , with the wind or the devil . |
| 19 | Willie Hills , a 30-year-old Pretoria policeman preparing to do battle with a 30-year-old lawyer at Twickenham on Saturday , is aware of the problems . |
| 20 | Teams from a wide variety of organisations will be competing throughout the afternoon to do battle with the Duke . |
| 21 | Left : Ready to do battle with Sticil Face on Shelter Stone Crag . |
| 22 | The concept that social intervention could have effects unintended by the practitioners , and which could be revealed only by asking the clients for their subjective impressions , took a long time to achieve currency , and had to do battle with the time-honoured attitude in professional practice that the client could not be expected to know what he , or more usually she , wanted . |
| 23 | The golfer , his strength renewed , is then eager to do battle with the remaining holes . |
| 24 | Towers next month to do battle with Miss ( that 's a laugh , she 's a proper little Madam ! ) |
| 25 | Even though Turtons ' had selected their file indiscriminately from stock to do battle with the French champion , even though the French company had brought over a special engineer to manipulate their product while Turtons ' had picked a man at random from the Sappers and Miners at the Exhibition , the French file had been humiliated . |
| 26 | But Dublin was long ago and far away ; the city she had known had changed irrevocably on that Easter Monday three years ago when a handful of men , including her husband Dermot , had walked out to do battle with the might of the British Empire . |
| 27 | So were as many as a hundred or so other females and now he lies surrounded by them , on guard and ready to do battle with any other male that tries to raid his harem . |
| 28 | Investors do not usually grasp the minutiae of the trading experiences of the businesses in which they invest , but it is unsettling when a company such as Pentos , which has been proclaiming its readiness to do battle with the big boys over the Net Book Agreement , has a financial setback . |
| 29 | We send you in to do battle with the enemy , and what happens ? |
| 30 | He then formulated a system of fighting derived from the mantis ' movements and went back to do battle with the fighters from other systems . |