Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] fight [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Killed in crossfire … the British soldier who died fighting for the Croatians . |
| 2 | Those who had fought for the King would be exempt from penalties if their properties were small . |
| 3 | 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 ] . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But it was not just a question of punishment ; for those who had fought on the winning side there were rewards to reap . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Parliament , elected before the civil war , was no longer representative of opinion among those who had fought against the King . |
| 11 | The nucleus of each village was for the most part made up of the Frelimo guerillas who had fought in the liberation struggle . |
| 12 | In the 1990 House of Commons there were only twenty-three Conservative MPs who had fought in the army during the war . |
| 13 | I could hear one of them , an old paratrooper who had fought in the desert . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | For Williamson , only soldiers who had fought in the war , and who understood the horrors of modern conflict , could save Europe from further disaster . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |