Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] war he " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Second World War he seems to have thought that 5 per cent would be a reasonable target for postwar policy . |
| 2 | At the end of the second world war he was one of a small band which went to Moscow to negotiate with Stalin an agreed programme for ‘ liberated ’ Czechoslovakia . |
| 3 | During the second world war he played an active role in the opposition to the German occupation , eventually joining the Resistance , and creating the magazine Confluence , which was rapidly banned , and became an early edition of French samizdat . |
| 4 | At the end of the second world war he was working as a docker in Bangkok 's harbour . |
| 5 | Before the Second World War he was a junior assistant engineer with the North Metropolitan Power Company at Bishops Stortford . |
| 6 | On the outbreak of the Second World War he was commissioned into the RAF 's equipment branch . |
| 7 | During the Second World War he worked in the production of aero-engine components and served as engineer officer with the Clevedon Fire Brigade . |
| 8 | If Charles Dodgson had been alive during the Second World War he would have surely been recruited for Station X , not only for his mathematics but also for his amphigory . |
| 9 | During the Second World War he came to national notice as chairman of a Senate committee set up to check on war contracts and to prevent war profiteering . |
| 10 | No me elder brother was , not me second brother , that was the Second World War he was in . |
| 11 | Er well he was unemployed for a quite some time er and he got odd casual jobs er and then finally doing er as late as the second world war he got er he got employment on the railway . |
| 12 | During his time as Head Gardener he planted several M. soulangeana and after the Second World War he also planted M. kobus , M. mollicomata , M. sinensis , M. stellata and M. acuminata . |
| 13 | They say never ask for whom the bell tolls , but when Steven Ivin heard one ring out after the second world war he knew it tolled for him . |
| 14 | During the Second World War he made propaganda and training films for the US army . |
| 15 | Perhaps because of his career as a Naval Officer during the First World War he worked for a long period during the Second World War at the Admiralty . |
| 16 | At the beginning of the First World War he sailed for the United States of America and spent the next ten years dividing his teaching between there and England . |
| 17 | For example , in discussing his plan to publish Der Freitheitsucher shortly after the First World War he wrote to Benjamin R. Tucker ( in English , for Tucker did not read German ) : ‘ The prices for printing and paper here are abominable , and I am not sure yet , if I can fulfill my plan . |
| 18 | After the First World War he joined a ‘ change-nightly ’ repertory company , appeared regularly at the Grand Theatre , Southampton , and later formed his own touring company before specialising in one-man shows drawn from the works of Charles Dickens . |
| 19 | During the First World War he was occupied with the Jurassic rocks of Raasay in connection with the exploitation of the ironstone and wrote a memoir on the subject , published in 1920 . |
| 20 | We have already encountered Baden-Powell in his romantic — progressive mode of address , but before the First World War he was more usually to be found singing a different tune : Here he is again , sounding off to the Royal United Services Institute in 1911 , in a typical Edwardian Tory response to the Liberal government 's programme of welfare reforms : |
| 21 | He was a dredgerman yes , see he was on the river first then he went on the dredger and course that 's before my time and that was during the First World War he was on he was at Ramsgate . |
| 22 | Known throughout the Army world for his outstanding service as a chaplain in the First World War he was held in great affection and esteem . |
| 23 | Though approaching early middle age , on the outbreak of the last world war he at once abandoned his pursuits for active service and very hard service it was to be . |