Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] fought [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thousands of workers lost their jobs , and the railways ' staffing needs were met by an influx of combatants who had fought on the nationalist side in the civil war ; a war that was commonly referred to by the victors , and indeed in RENFE documents of this period , as the ‘ war of national liberation ’ . |
| 2 | On June 20-24 in Narbonne police ( and , later , CRS riot police ) clashed with " Harki " youths — the children of Algerians who had fought on the French side during the Algerian war of independence . |
| 3 | But it was not just a question of punishment ; for those who had fought on the winning side there were rewards to reap . |
| 4 | On the way we passed a very old ran , bent almost double , wearing the uniform of one who had fought with the Czechoslovak Legion in Russia . |
| 5 | This expedition , in addition to proving a new method of jungle warfare , did another great thing for British troops : it convinced them of the friendliness of the people of Burma , for many of them who had fought through the 1942 campaign had prejudiced memories of those hard days . |
| 6 | The battalion , which had operated in Namibia and Angola , was composed largely of Angolan rebels who had fought in the Angolan civil war , and also a number of white mercenaries ; its members had since been given South African citizenship . |
| 7 | The cause of Hoxha 's suspicion against a communist who had fought in the International Brigades in Spain and with him as a partisan during the Second World War was Shehu 's consent to his son 's marriage into the family of an exiled critic of Hoxha . |
| 8 | They were no less repugnant to tens of thousands of men who had fought in the previous war , as they would have been to tens of thousands more who died in it . |
| 9 | LORD ALDINGTON told the High Court yesterday he was not surprised that tens of thousands of Yugoslavs , many of whom had fought on the German side , feared repatriation at the end of the war . |