Example sentences of "were fighting [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | We happen to know from the historian Livy that a city called Morgantina was settled by the Romans with a group of Spaniards who were fighting on their side in Sicily , after they had captured it from the Carthaginians in 211BC , and the coins thereby enabled the site to be identified as that of Morgantina . |
| 2 | They were all about the same age as my daughter Kate , and three were fighting for their lives . |
| 3 | Within weeks three innocent people were dead and two more were fighting for their lives in hospital . |
| 4 | FOUR students were fighting for their lives last night after eating sweets that a jilted boyfriend had laced with one of the deadliest poisons in the world . |
| 5 | PREMIER John Major and Chancellor Norman Lamont were fighting for their political lives last night — and blaming anyone but themselves for the mess . |
| 6 | Mr Major and his Chancellor Norman Lamont were fighting for their political lives last night in the greatest crisis they have faced . |
| 7 | The High Elves were fighting for their homeland and the Everqueen . |
| 8 | I was a fervent supporter of the Ibos of Biafra , who were fighting for their independence against the rest of Nigeria . |
| 9 | ‘ The Merkuts were fighting for their lives then . |
| 10 | Both men were fighting for their lives . |
| 11 | So that one really is telling a story , commemorating something in Danish history , when they were fighting for their for their freedom . |
| 12 | AT LEAST one person died and three others were fighting for their lives after a school canoeing trip went disastrously wrong yesterday . |
| 13 | ONE PERSON died and four others were fighting for their lives last night after a school canoeing trip went disastrously wrong . |
| 14 | A BABY girl died and two other badly-burned youngsters were fighting for their lives last night after a TV drowned out the sounds of a blaze ripping through a council house . |