Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] fight [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The story of its ill-fated Paris premiere in 1913 , which provoked fighting in the audience , is well known . |
| 3 | Killed in crossfire … the British soldier who died fighting for the Croatians . |
| 4 | Those who had fought for the King would be exempt from penalties if their properties were small . |
| 5 | Hekmatyar , a hardliner who had opposed the Peshawar Accord , regrouped his fighters in the hills to the south of the city and began issuing demands to the new regime , principal among them being the expulsion from Kabul of Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostam , the ethnic Uzbek militia leader who had fought for the Najibullah regime until switching allegiance to Masud in March [ see p. 38847 ] . |
| 6 | Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostam , the ethnic Uzbek leader who had fought for the Najibullah regime until switching allegiance to Masud in March [ see p. 38847 ] and who still commanded the most powerful militia in the country , on June 25 called on all mujaheddin factions in Kabul to cease hostilities . |
| 7 | But it was not just a question of punishment ; for those who had fought on the winning side there were rewards to reap . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Parliament , elected before the civil war , was no longer representative of opinion among those who had fought against the King . |
| 13 | The nucleus of each village was for the most part made up of the Frelimo guerillas who had fought in the liberation struggle . |
| 14 | In the 1990 House of Commons there were only twenty-three Conservative MPs who had fought in the army during the war . |
| 15 | I could hear one of them , an old paratrooper who had fought in the desert . |
| 16 | Meanwhile a young infantry soldier who had fought in the trenches and had been taken prisoner of war was putting the finishing touches to a philosophical treatise that was to bring traditional philosophy crashing down about its ears . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | For Williamson , only soldiers who had fought in the war , and who understood the horrors of modern conflict , could save Europe from further disaster . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He come at me and he was six foot two and he come he were gon na knock hell out of me so I had to protect myself and we got fighting in the shop . |
| 22 | They vowed to fight to the bitter end to stop it . |
| 23 | In the battle for Tunis the 152nd had lost two commanding officers in three days ; and in Italy they had fought with the Guards in bloody actions from Cassino to the Po . |
| 24 | Because of the Swamp they had come so far south that they must now be at least on a level with the path where they had fought with the sturdy beggars although the northern ride must lie between them and it . |
| 25 | He 'd fought in the last war and is a very intelligent and basically optimistic person , like John . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The United States wished to discharge its debts to those with whom it had fought during the war ; but it also came to see the volume of refugees as a kind of continuing proof that it had waged a just struggle against evil forces . |
| 28 | The United States wished to discharge its debts to those with whom it had fought during the war ; but it also came to see the volume of refugees as a kind of continuing proof that it had waged a just struggle against evil forces . |
| 29 | As a young paratrooper he had fought in the north against the Kurdish rebels . |
| 30 | He had fought in the Boer War and he was John Buchan 's model for Richard Hannay in the Thirty-Nine Steps . |