Example sentences of "to fight for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should never put on your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth . |
| 2 | Commenting last night on his willingness to fight for Ulster , he said : ‘ I merely pointed out that if that situation was forced upon us I would defend my country . |
| 3 | Both characters indeed show allometry ; but we have found that relative tooth size or relative antler size are related to the extent to which males have to fight for females . |
| 4 | That 's including Chippingfield if you had seen it as we saw it when we came here you would recognise how much work has gone into building the town because I was on the the council then I was asked if I would stand for the council which was then only a parish council there was no urban district council that was n't formed for four or five years afterwards and of course , we had to fight for lights everything that , er that we needed we had to fight for because there was no lighting on Netteswell Road where our children were going to school , and there were little ones . |
| 5 | This was not , of course , just a Protestant response , although it benefited the Protestants that the great Catholic powers of France and Spain should tear one another apart ; their temporary truce in 1556 had been regarded as a significant reversal to the cause of reform , and when the war was renewed one of the leading English preachers , Christopher Goodman , was to urge the English not to fight for Spain , just as Knox urged the Scots not to fight for France . |
| 6 | To fight for King and Country ; to keep a stiff upper lip and a devil-may-care sangfroid , no matter if he were scared shitless . |
| 7 | Mr Salmon told me that he 'd heard the best barrows were being sold off in the Old Kent Road , on account of the fact that so many young lads were heeding Kitchener 's cry and joining up to fight for King and country . |
| 8 | As they munched hungrily he learned how Tommy at the age of eighteen had been given the choice of two years at His Majesty 's pleasure or volunteering to fight for King and country . |
| 9 | Campaigners say they 'll continue to fight for Standish , but at the hospital tonight there was an overwhelming feeling that it 's already too late . |
| 10 | This was not , of course , just a Protestant response , although it benefited the Protestants that the great Catholic powers of France and Spain should tear one another apart ; their temporary truce in 1556 had been regarded as a significant reversal to the cause of reform , and when the war was renewed one of the leading English preachers , Christopher Goodman , was to urge the English not to fight for Spain , just as Knox urged the Scots not to fight for France . |
| 11 | I said we had to fight for improvements , such as a proper building for the market and a nursery for their children . |
| 12 | Photographs , ornaments jammed anyhow on to whatever might accommodate them ; furniture , chairs and tallboys that seemed to fight for space . |
| 13 | WELCOME TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER AS THE PRETENDERS LINE UP TO FIGHT FOR IBM 's CROWN |
| 14 | As Secretary of Women 's Affairs , my work was to fight for laws to protect and aid women workers . |
| 15 | But before Willie was involved in these epic encounters , the no-nonsense Glaswegian had his own battle to fight for Trevino 's bag . |
| 16 | This allows them to build without hindrance places d'armes on the Japanese islands against the Soviet Union and those countries of Asia which have risen to fight for liberty and independence against the forces of imperialism and reaction . |
| 17 | The Women 's Section of , the African National Congress in Lusaka , supporting joint action , for the release of political prisoners and detainees , and against forced removals , issued a statement on International Women 's Day , calling upon women of the world to insist on the right to know what is going on in South Africa ; to intensify the campaign for sanctions ; to fight for prisoner of war status for captured combatants ; to support the Save the Patriots campaign and to remember Daisy Modise , the only woman patriot of the 62 prisoners on death row . |
| 18 | He had to fight for Lothian . |
| 19 | Are we right to fight for responses to be channelled through National offices , rather than directly to Waterloo . |
| 20 | The 30-year-old Palacio used to fight for coins in the streets of Medellin and was good enough to fight for the WBA super-bantamweight crown two years ago , when he claimed he was robbed . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't see why anyone wants to fight for England , ’ Eileen said . |
| 22 | The end of the wars drove them back to the British Isles , and some of them turned to fight for land in Ireland . |
| 23 | New Times has pondered whether there would be such vehement opposition about sending ‘ our boys ’ abroad again if they were to be sent to fight for Iraq . |
| 24 | Many Jordanians have also volunteered to fight for Iraq . |
| 25 | Rather like those nineteenth-century American ladies who often found it easier to fight for slaves , or Indians , or heathens or The Poor than for themselves . |
| 26 | Mr John Dyer , chairman of the Barlow Clowes Investors ' Group , which was set up to fight for compensation , said : ‘ I really think investors ought to be deeply grateful . |
| 27 | But they have made it perfectly clear that the council is prepared to fight for compensation if the companies it holds responsible do not pay up . |
| 28 | The campaign was supported by a disparate band of politically astute Italians who loyally buried their differences in order to fight for unity : Carlo Alberto , the Piedmontian king of Sardinia , and Camillo de Cavour , his Prime Minister , Giuseppe Mazzini , an anti-monarchist from Genoa , and Guiseppe Garibaldi , a romantic , enigmatic guerilla leader born in Nice . |
| 29 | I want players to fight for positions . ’ |
| 30 | But the Glory continued to hurtle upwards and the two men in the front to fight for possession of the gun . |