Example sentences of "fought for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He liberated us from the Turks and fought for our independence , ’ said a small boy who waited at the quayside amid a jostling crowd of former monarchs , visiting Serbian bishops and television crews . |
| 2 | He fought for the introduction of a free press , the right of everyone to travel freely , a sound convertible currency and the right to existence of a Polish opposition . |
| 3 | Sometimes I get sick when I see what I fought for , ’ Moran said . |
| 4 | You could have respect for a man who lusted after you and fought for you and took you . |
| 5 | The Indians , who they fought for nearly two years , must also complete their pullout . |
| 6 | Colonel Bullen Reynes , who fought for the king during the Civil War , built the house in the 1690s . |
| 7 | He fought for King Charles in the Civil War and was killed at Marston Moor in 1644 . |
| 8 | When she refused , Seth fought for the wheel , she won , and for the next fifty miles he fumed . |
| 9 | Gazzer fought for breath . |
| 10 | Many of those who went and fought for the Republicans were not always clear about why they were there , except that they felt a revulsion against fascism and a general feeling that they had to do something in the face of the frustrations of the 1930s . |
| 11 | We 've had four three-legged dogs over the years : Bless-her , who was born with a hind leg missing ; Belle whose front leg was amputated at seven weeks because of a ligament problem ; Tulley , a road accident victim who came to us at nine months old and fought for 18 months to keep his damaged front leg . |
| 12 | Tom Cruise puts in a fine performance as Ron Kovic , disabled Vietnam vet who fought back against indifference from the country he fought for , but somehow Oliver Stone 's direction still leaves the viewer unmoved by his plight |
| 13 | An hour later , she was sent for and went as she was , still in the apron spotted with bits of meat and potato where they had clung to her as she fought for them . |
| 14 | Those who fought for political control after James V 's death , therefore , were fighting for far more than personal position . |
| 15 | Thus Mary of Guise and cardinal Beaton fought for the support of lord Gray and lord Ruthven ; Beaton won the first , though in 1548 he came over to Mary ; two years after the cardinal 's death , Mary won the second . |
| 16 | Perhaps , like so many others , he sincerely believed that it was a just war and fought for his values in righteousness . |
| 17 | The Russian plan , probably inspired by the offer of £200,000 from British conservation groups to buy Brightness and his beluga comrade , Gorgeous , who is still free , prompted a furious reaction from British campaigners who fought for more than a month to have the beluga airlifted from Turkish waters to the Arctic . |
| 18 | At a time when rock fans expected country folk to be psychotic rednecks ready to gun down anyone with hair over their ears — pace Easy Rider — Cash came along and fought for Indian rights , recorded with Bob Dylan , and received death threats from the Ku Klux Klan . |
| 19 | John Fleg 's chest heaved as he fought for breath . |
| 20 | The Austrian Empire , the Russian Empire , the French Republic , ‘ poor little Belgium ’ , everybody fought for the privilege of committing social and collective suicide on a spectacular scale , and for no particular reason . |
| 21 | Together with Germany , we fought for tough criteria . |
| 22 | Water filled his mouth as he fought for air . |
| 23 | It smashed into his ribs , forcing his mouth open again , more soup choking into his lungs , his eyes gummed with it as he fought for the surface . |
| 24 | Her father was choking for breath , clutching his throat as he fought for air . |
| 25 | She later fought for women 's rights and social reform in the Alberta legislature at Edmonton , and represented Canada at the League of Nations . |
| 26 | Yet for all that he no longer believed the creed in which he had been raised : for all that he fought for a king against an upstart general , for the old order against the new , Karelius recognized that at heart he would always be one of Cromwell 's men . |
| 27 | They came up and fought for half an hour till they was both flat on their backs , on the waste land there . |
| 28 | When they wanted to stop the investment programme , it was managing director Malcolm Cotton who fought for the idea . |
| 29 | Poles from the other areas of partitioned Poland rose up and fought for over eight months in support of his efforts to halt the dismemberment of the Polish state . |
| 30 | Greta Burkill did not confine herself to looking after his education , but fought for him to spend a summer with his parents in Venezuela — a country not keen to grant visitors ' visas to Jews at that time . |