Example sentences of "to fight for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should never put on your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth . |
| 2 | To fight for King and Country ; to keep a stiff upper lip and a devil-may-care sangfroid , no matter if he were scared shitless . |
| 3 | Mr Salmon told me that he 'd heard the best barrows were being sold off in the Old Kent Road , on account of the fact that so many young lads were heeding Kitchener 's cry and joining up to fight for King and country . |
| 4 | As they munched hungrily he learned how Tommy at the age of eighteen had been given the choice of two years at His Majesty 's pleasure or volunteering to fight for King and country . |
| 5 | Photographs , ornaments jammed anyhow on to whatever might accommodate them ; furniture , chairs and tallboys that seemed to fight for space . |
| 6 | This allows them to build without hindrance places d'armes on the Japanese islands against the Soviet Union and those countries of Asia which have risen to fight for liberty and independence against the forces of imperialism and reaction . |
| 7 | The Women 's Section of , the African National Congress in Lusaka , supporting joint action , for the release of political prisoners and detainees , and against forced removals , issued a statement on International Women 's Day , calling upon women of the world to insist on the right to know what is going on in South Africa ; to intensify the campaign for sanctions ; to fight for prisoner of war status for captured combatants ; to support the Save the Patriots campaign and to remember Daisy Modise , the only woman patriot of the 62 prisoners on death row . |
| 8 | The end of the wars drove them back to the British Isles , and some of them turned to fight for land in Ireland . |
| 9 | Mr John Dyer , chairman of the Barlow Clowes Investors ' Group , which was set up to fight for compensation , said : ‘ I really think investors ought to be deeply grateful . |
| 10 | But they have made it perfectly clear that the council is prepared to fight for compensation if the companies it holds responsible do not pay up . |
| 11 | The campaign was supported by a disparate band of politically astute Italians who loyally buried their differences in order to fight for unity : Carlo Alberto , the Piedmontian king of Sardinia , and Camillo de Cavour , his Prime Minister , Giuseppe Mazzini , an anti-monarchist from Genoa , and Guiseppe Garibaldi , a romantic , enigmatic guerilla leader born in Nice . |
| 12 | But the Glory continued to hurtle upwards and the two men in the front to fight for possession of the gun . |
| 13 | Surely all political parties would do well to agree that there is to be no political vacuum in Northern Ireland and that we are determined to fight for peace as the future of Northern Ireland . |
| 14 | every local authority and this is where the sponsored councillors can play a major part in this campaign , to fight for justice on behalf of their employees . |
| 15 | She had vowed to fight for Roman 's love , but how could she when he only wanted her for a stopgap while Dana was away ? |
| 16 | The idea of a department of state concerned solely with foreign affairs had clearly still to fight for acceptance . ) |
| 17 | This was a particularly important assumption in that many lenders , forced by deregulation of financial markets to fight for business , offered borrowers loans at multiples of three or even three-and-a-half times their gross salary . |
| 18 | During the battle with Sauron 's warriors the Dead Host sail up to fight for Aragorn . |
| 19 | In these years the Unitarians were forced out of the Dissenting Deputies and had to fight for control of their chapel property against other dissenters ; tensions and fractures recurrently emerged within the Society of Friends . |
| 20 | But Andrew may be so outraged at his wife 's topless antics that he could decide to fight for custody of his children after all . |
| 21 | However , they demanded the creation of a national union of students and vowed to continue to fight for democracy . |
| 22 | Targeting is also important because in the competitive modern environment the message will have to fight for attention with many other conflicting or parallel messages and the ‘ noise ’ will dilute or distort the content and effect . |
| 23 | Shirley Armitage is relieved her struggle is over , but she says there are still too many others having to fight for health care . |
| 24 | have n't got to fight for prosecution . |
| 25 | Deep down , however , and reading his own comments about always having to fight for employment and never being superbly successful , one ca n't help feeling he actually yearned for the stability that steady and better paid work would bring . |
| 26 | It was the lack of democracy and equality which impelled the oppressed to fight for secession . |
| 27 | One of the generals , Tienie Groenewald , made a splash by boasting of his ability to mobilise 500,000 whites willing to fight for secession if peaceful resistance to black rule failed . |
| 28 | Californian Tamara Rotola has hired a lawyer to fight for maintenance from Albert for her six-month-old daughter . |
| 29 | He is determined to lead his injury-stricken outfit to victory in France for the first time in 22 years and last night insisted : ‘ I 've had to fight for respect in rugby league . |