se battre

Il m'avait dit que j'oublierais le désert... et ce pour quoi ils s'étaient battus.
He told me I would forget the desert, and what they had fought for.
Les deux hommes s'étaient battus bec et ongles pour la deuxième place et leurs déboires ont profondément changé le podium provisoire. Le sauvetage du rallye
Both men had been fighting hard for second place when they came unstuck and their misfortune dramatically changed the look of the leaderboard.
Pourquoi pas Peterson ? Ils s'étaient battus.
Why didn't he pick on Peterson?
À l'extérieur de la ville d'Ancon, ils ont traversé un champ de bataille où les soldats du Chili et du Pérou s'étaient battus, il y a longtemps.
Outside the town of Ancon they passed through a battlefield where soldiers from Chile and Peru had fought long ago.
L'antipathie entre les deux états était particulièrement profonde, suite à l'alliance du Portugal avec le Royaume d'Espagne, contre lequel les Néerlandais s'étaient battus dans la guerre de Quatre-Vingts Ans (1566-1648).
The antipathy between the two states ran especially deep because of the alliance of Portugal with the Kingdom of Spain, with whom the Dutch had been embroiled in the Eighty Years' War (1566-1648).
Ils s'étaient battus et Tom l'avait tué.
He refused to pay him.
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