Example sentences of "struggled for " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the congregation of the Lutheran Church gathered to hear the Word of God expounded , they expected to hear it expounded fully , and the Pastor of Tappersdorf was ready to oblige , not merely comparing the German text for the day — a reference to the doings of an obscure Old Testament prophet — with the original Hebrew , and giving a learned half-hour to an explanation of the circumstances in which the prophet lived , suffered , and prophesied , a time in which it seemed a small group of people struggled for the truth and searched for God under the shadow of huge decadent empires to the East — and the West , but he , the Pastor , was perfectly willing to apply the prophet 's message to the present day — and to present-day socialist Germany , at that . |
| 2 | In subsequent decades the Prussians and Austrians struggled for supremacy over the German soul . |
| 3 | As she began to choke she kicked and struggled for breath before tumbling down into nowhere . |
| 4 | Frankie backed away as the animal 's snarling head and powerful front legs hooked themselves over the top of the gate and her back legs struggled for a foot-hold on the curves of wrought iron . |
| 5 | It struggled for a moment on the floor then vanished into a crevice behind a tile . |
| 6 | Most of them came apart like butterflies in a whirlwind and were dispersed ; some struggled for infinite moments , trying to summon up enough reserves of strength to achieve reality , before they were spent . |
| 7 | He plunged into it , and the mud closed over his head as he struggled for a footing . |
| 8 | A quick shift of weight , and he angled the bike over the gravel edge , sliding broadside as he struggled for traction . |
| 9 | The analysis which follows in the succeeding five chapters attempts to show that they are irksome ; and indeed many are immovable without other deep-seated changes in society ; and that these can not be advocated or struggled for on the grounds of soil conservation alone . |
| 10 | The Bradwell School Board in the beginning comprised Rev A.C. Woodhouse , Messrs Ward , Wyllie , C.W. Powell ( Solicitor ) , and it appears they struggled for some years . |
| 11 | That 's when the Caterham goes , eight months after five of us struggled for a weekend to built it in a cramped studio behind the office . |
| 12 | Into a gasping horrified silence while Mercer struggled for words , Zak smiled brilliantly and said , ‘ Is it indigestion ? |
| 13 | I struggled for some time to understand the metaphors until an inner voice said to me during meditation : ‘ You 're in martyr over this book . ’ |
| 14 | Wales still struggled for possession although Copsey 's aggressive involvement ensured that Ireland 's ball was not delivered as smoothly as it might have been . |
| 15 | Pakistan struggled for much of game , with Wasim Akram providing one of their few bright spots , smashing 36 from 15 balls , including two towering sixes . |
| 16 | Although they struggled for long periods against the same Turkey side England beat 4-0 last month , Graham Taylor — watching from the stands — said : ‘ Of the three results possible , this was the worst one . |
| 17 | She struggled for a few moments until , overcome apparently by shock , she lost consciousness . |
| 18 | Like Julian , who tells us that she wrestled for years with the problem of sin , Luther and St Teresa both struggled for some twenty years with a paralysing sense of their own sinfulness . |
| 19 | While Ray Doyle struggled for his life in the Intensive Care Unit , in the computer room at CI5 headquarters , George Cowley and Bodie struggled to find the ‘ connection ’ . |
| 20 | Daniel , who dialled 999 as his mother struggled for her life , will be a given a new start , cut off from 55-year-old Horbury . |
| 21 | Manjrekar , who in the first Test struggled for 36 minutes for a duck , batted nine minutes short of five hours before India , 31 ahead on first innings , declared at 312–8 . |
| 22 | Senna struggled for a long time with what he later described as an undriveable car and he collided with Germany 's Michael Schumacher after 40 of the 72 laps . |
| 23 | The French struggled for nearly sixty minutes against a generous but raw Romania , ran riot against a Fijian side well below par and short of the menacing inspiration that made them a fearsome proposal in 1987 , while the game against Canada exposed the shortcomings that England later exploited with relish . |
| 24 | In the Second Test we struggled for possession and spent the whole match backpedalling ’ . |
| 25 | The other two were — ’ he looked up at the roof as he struggled for the word ‘ — how you say , scared of him ? |
| 26 | The Southeast Asian colonies struggled for independence . |
| 27 | They struggled for possession of the gun . |
| 28 | By 9.00 a badger was warily sniffing the air in front of me , as I struggled for breath in the shadows . |
| 29 | His wife sat with him for thirteen hours , and he clutched her hand as he struggled for life . |
| 30 | Not all were as exotic as those with a succession of Miss Worlds , some of whom had to be nursed along ( with a few retakes ) as they struggled for appropriate poise and vocabulary . |