Example sentences of "[pers pn] were fighting for " in BNC.
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| 1 | you tell mother when I were fighting for me country , he ai n't got a bloody scratch on him now |
| 2 | Lee felt as if she were fighting for her life . |
| 3 | If this was really all we were fighting for , it seemed very feeble . |
| 4 | Our job was to write the military communiques , the leaflets explaining our political programme and what we were fighting for when we moved into a new municipality , prepare tapes for the occasions we occupied the local radio stations in San Vicente and Zacatecoluca , monitor the international and national radio stations we could reach , and produce the mural newspapers for all the sub-zones of the region . |
| 5 | I mean we 'll be back to the scenario that we were fighting for three years ago . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought he ought to know which Queen we were fighting for , ’ he said afterwards . |
| 7 | By choosing to take at face value all the evidence pointing to the futility of the war , and ignoring all those who believed , with patent sincerity , that they were fighting for something worthwhile against something evil , he has taken cynicism to the point of naivety . |
| 8 | They were fighting for seats in a body — the Strasbourg parliament — which is the assembly of the European Community , of which they strongly disapprove. 1992 and the European Single Market would be ‘ disastrous , catastrophic ’ , an ‘ ideological bluff ’ devised by deceitful politicians , declared a German MEP at the Paris conference . |
| 9 | They were fighting for justice for the workers , a fine cause but one that had already proved useless in Russia , where the same old bureaucratic hierarchy held sway as it did in Spain . |
| 10 | According to this argument French troops had to see that they were fighting for something and , moreover , they needed the feeling that their actions were approved . |
| 11 | There were a lot of people there who felt seriously about what they were fighting for but people went there for a good fight really , they had n't been able to show any aggression for the last two years . |
| 12 | So that one really is telling a story , commemorating something in Danish history , when they were fighting for their for their freedom . |
| 13 | They were fighting for an objective which was far more important than local arrangements or local agreements er with er foreign imperial powers about who governed what er in , in their own country . |
| 14 | They were fighting for an objective which was far more important than local arrangements or local agreements er with er foreign imperial powers about who governed what er in , in their own country . |