Example sentences of "[pers pn] have 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 | For more than thirty years I have been fighting for them . |
| 3 | Realistically , I have been fighting against the odds since I took over . |
| 4 | She 'd felt as if she 'd been fighting with Guy Sterne all her life ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We 've been fighting about money of late , but then again it might be my face . |
| 7 | That 's what they 'd been fighting for for twenty years . |
| 8 | Maurice Hope held a similar view , though he favoured social rather than genetic factors : ‘ Black people are natural fighters ; they 've been fighting for survival and they 've been in that condition all their lives . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | 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 : |
| 13 | He said , ‘ They have been fighting beside us , too , all the way along . ’ |
| 14 | In truth , as he now knows , he has been fighting with a God intent on blessing for a reason hidden in his deep purposes of redemption . |
| 15 | When Ellcock announced his retirement from first-class cricket at the age of 216 after Middlesex 's pre-season tour to Portugal , he was finally admitting defeat in a struggle to overcome back problems he has been fighting for much of his 10-year career . |
| 16 | Mr Boris Yeltsin , the president of Russia , may have won the battle , but he has not yet won the war he has been fighting for more than half a year with the Congress of People 's Deputies . |
| 17 | He had said he had been fighting with another man . |
| 18 | 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 . |