Example sentences of "[verb] fighting for " in BNC.
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| 1 | As PC Lesley Harrison lies fighting for her life in hospital the Government should take immediate steps to ensure that anybody who attacks a member of any of the security services is imprisoned for a long time . |
| 2 | Himself , he would have died fighting for his life , clawing and scratching his way out of existence . |
| 3 | He has lived at his Glebe Farm home for more than 30 years but had not relished fighting for its survival . |
| 4 | The couple began fighting for the right to keep children Moses , 14 , Dylan , seven and Satchel , four , after Mia revealed Allen 's affair with her adopted daughter Soon-Yi . |
| 5 | When rival gangs began fighting for black market spoils , the ethnic war which has engulfed Sarajevo and Bosnia for 10 months spilled over into Stup . |
| 6 | I remember the over-eager , gaping mouths and outstretched necks , as well as those who could only just about lift their eyelids and had to have the food forced down their throats so that they would have the strength to keep fighting for life . |
| 7 | And , and I 'm against any Trust status which they tend to , to go because I believe that the beginning of our campaign that because was talking last year about Trust status it did alienate a lot of people against and said , why should we bother fighting for a hospital what would go Trust anyway . |
| 8 | A more important matter concerned them : the fate of their souls in eternity if they were to die fighting for an unjust cause . |
| 9 | When Charles de la Tremoille was mortally wounded in the battle of Marignano in 1515 , his death brought pride for his family since he died fighting for the public good in an engagement at which the king of France himself had been present . |
| 10 | More than 100 police earlier in the day prevented demonstrators from laying wreaths on the graves of German pilots of the Condor region who died fighting for Franco during the Spanish Civil war . |
| 11 | Killed in crossfire … the British soldier who died fighting for the Croatians . |
| 12 | But er eventually I found out that er , er , I ca n't er work peacefully here , because if I stopped for er , fighting for the benefit of the workers then er they will think that er I have been bribed or something like this and if I keep fighting for them then there 's no peace of mind , there 's always struggle , so I thought I 'll leave , and the second was , that I wanted to bring my family into this country and I was n't saving anything while leaving them because that 's a bit expensive area and er , the person who got the job for me he said let's migrate to Yorkshire . |
| 13 | Keep fighting for a law to stop this glue sniffing |
| 14 | Mr Patten pledged to continue fighting for greater democracy for the colony . |
| 15 | He admits that he wants to continue fighting for the respect , and honour it endows his name . |
| 16 | By then , Bedford will be left fighting for survival in four crunching closing fixtures and when Patterson makes his likely league debut it will be in Bath , of all places . |
| 17 | Martin was left fighting for his life when he fell from Brimham Rocks , near Patley Bridge , North Yorkshire , on the last day of their honeymoon . |
| 18 | ‘ I had medals my father won fighting for the resistance in the Second World War and pictures of my late husband and my mother . |
| 19 | She pushed at his chest , fear and love fighting for mastery in her . |
| 20 | Marko in real life succeeded his father as ruler of Prilep , but after 1385 became a Turkish vassal , served in the Turkish army during the battle of Kosovo , and was probably killed fighting for the Turks at Rovine in 1395 . |
| 21 | He hailed almost certainly from the region of the lower Loire , where a close kinsman ( perhaps his father ) had been killed fighting for Louis the Pious in 834 and already before 842 another probable close kinsman , Rainald , was count of Herbauge and dux of Nantes . |
| 22 | Joined by the rest of the Brigade ( two battalions ) , it continued fighting for the next six days . |