fight

• have to fight

  Even if they're sick you have to fight to get them to leave class.’

• fight back

  But we fight back

• fight off

  Nula, 32, of North London, has had to fight off an attacker at a bus stop and survive a nightmare ride with a sinister mini-cab driver.

• want to fight

  Mr Cash and his Friends of Bruges seem to want to fight a battle against federalism today which may not have to be fought at all.

• fight to get

  Me and Nicola used to fight to get on that.

• fight between

  He said: ‘It should be a good fight between Lennox and Ruddock.

• able to fight

  Duff added: ‘Frank is ready, willing and able to fight Lennox.

• good fight

  And sometimes there was the excitement of a good fight.

• fight broke

  It appears a fight broke out after a game of pool.

• fight to keep

  She had to fight to keep away from him.

• fight it out

  Mayne and his group crept away, leaving the guards to fight it out between themselves.

• must fight

  Another thing I wrote (one writes things and the implications shriek — it's like suddenly realizing one's deaf), ‘I must fight with my weapons.

• prepare to fight

• fight shy

  as if to refute everything that Celia had been thinking, Dr Shalcross suddenly said, ‘Many women fight shy of motherhood for one reason or another.

• fight like

  I'm just wondering whether it's E D or E S, to fight like this.

• title fight

  The Brighton-based fighter, who stopped Benn in their WBO middleweight title fight in November 1990, added: I've nothing to prove by fighting Benn again, so if we do meet I've got to be given my passport to retirement.’