Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [prep] the first world " in BNC.

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1 Bradley , who played in the first World Cup in 1987 , was still in the Irish team the following season but , apart from an appearance against Wales when Gus Aherne was injured in 1990 , he became the forgotten man .
2 The Roll of Honour , dedicated to the men of Patrington who served in the First World War , stands in the middle of the village .
3 The one on the north wall is for the men of the cavalry regiments from the Krems area who fell in the First World War .
4 The first on the village green is in the style of an Eleanor Cross , and dedicated to men from the estate who died during the First World War .
5 We 're talking about the people who died in the first world war .
6 Ivy Compton-Burnett , who wrote beyond the First World War of ancestral houses in the 1890s , the setting of her own childhood , once declared that ‘ when an age is finished you see it as it is ’ .
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