Example sentences of "be fighting for [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you 're fighting for Her Majesty , you have my support , ’ he said rather emotionally . |
| 2 | ‘ They 're fighting for their lives , and they need help . |
| 3 | Notts County will be fighting for their lives , the same as us , but we need six more points . ’ |
| 4 | They were a superstitious lot and tomorrow they would be fighting for their lives . |
| 5 | President Mitterrand will be fighting for his own authority and that of France in Europe with his campaign to get the Treaty ratified by parliament . |
| 6 | Words uttered in haste often have a prophetic ring to them ; within a month Benjamin and I would be fighting for our lives on icy waters in Somerset . ) |
| 7 | Home Office pathologist Dr Donald Wayte , of Bangor , told the court yesterday that it would probably have been impossible to get so much material into Mrs McMullen 's mouth if she had been conscious , as she would have been fighting for her life . |
| 8 | Far from indulging in political theatre as you suggested , Kenya and Tanzania , by campaigning for an international ivory trade ban , are fighting for their political life . |
| 9 | They are fighting for their enslavement as if it were a question of their salvation . |
| 10 | Detailing for de Cuellar the damage done to Iraq 's civilian population and culture by five days of Allied bombing , Aziz declared , ‘ You personally bear responsibility to history and mankind for the heinous crimes being committed against the noble people of Iraq who are fighting for their freedom . ’ |
| 11 | TWO British backpackers are fighting for their lives after a car smash in Australia . |
| 12 | This season 's programme resumes on January 9 and already some of the biggest clubs in English rugby are fighting for their top-class lives . |
| 13 | Writers have to be relevant to what is taking place , whenever people are fighting for their self-determination . |
| 14 | " Mr Rayne , d' you consider it honourable to profit from the distress of your comrades … of the men , women and children with whom you are fighting for your life ? " |
| 15 | Lee felt as if she were fighting for her life . |
| 16 | They were all about the same age as my daughter Kate , and three were fighting for their lives . |
| 17 | Within weeks three innocent people were dead and two more were fighting for their lives in hospital . |
| 18 | FOUR students were fighting for their lives last night after eating sweets that a jilted boyfriend had laced with one of the deadliest poisons in the world . |
| 19 | PREMIER John Major and Chancellor Norman Lamont were fighting for their political lives last night — and blaming anyone but themselves for the mess . |
| 20 | Mr Major and his Chancellor Norman Lamont were fighting for their political lives last night in the greatest crisis they have faced . |
| 21 | The High Elves were fighting for their homeland and the Everqueen . |
| 22 | I was a fervent supporter of the Ibos of Biafra , who were fighting for their independence against the rest of Nigeria . |
| 23 | ‘ The Merkuts were fighting for their lives then . |
| 24 | Both men were fighting for their lives . |
| 25 | So that one really is telling a story , commemorating something in Danish history , when they were fighting for their for their freedom . |
| 26 | AT LEAST one person died and three others were fighting for their lives after a school canoeing trip went disastrously wrong yesterday . |
| 27 | ONE PERSON died and four others were fighting for their lives last night after a school canoeing trip went disastrously wrong . |
| 28 | A BABY girl died and two other badly-burned youngsters were fighting for their lives last night after a TV drowned out the sounds of a blaze ripping through a council house . |
| 29 | My good self and my evil self were fighting for my mind and body — and my evil self was winning . |
| 30 | you tell mother when I were fighting for me country , he ai n't got a bloody scratch on him now |