Example sentences of "[vb past] to fight for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party denounced the name change and vowed to fight for the right to continue to use its name . |
| 2 | The Left-wing of the party continued to fight for the adoption of socialist policies . |
| 3 | ‘ I had to fight for a place on a packed plane and , after much pleading , they finally knocked someone off their list . |
| 4 | When I was thirty , we did n't have the vote , we had to fight for a place in the world . |
| 5 | I had to fight for the right to cut dresses as well as suits , to make evening dress as well as day wear and even now , when I 've proved myself in those areas , I have to fight members of my own staff who believe I should still stick to producing powerful women 's suits . |
| 6 | Between 1956 and 1960 the association had to fight for the right to enter the Big Berlin Exhibition as a separate group . |
| 7 | Once , when an officer questioned his right to keep the carriage empty , he produced papers to prove his case and the officer left to fight for a seat somewhere else . |
| 8 | Moreover , even when funds were available , the peasantry refused to fight for the monarch : and this was true even with the growth of an expropriated landless labouring class . |
| 9 | What was it that so introverted a man as Ludwig Wittgenstein thought he believed in , when he volunteered to fight for the Emperor ? |