Example sentences of "back [prep] the war " in BNC.
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| 1 | Standing there and scowling and telling Mrs Gotobed that he was n't coming back after the war , that he was n't going into the shop … |
| 2 | And er so when I came back after the War he says er , I object to him starting , he 's not come f direct from conscription , he volunteered for the Army . |
| 3 | Then the soldiers started coming back after the war , and we got new members of staff — earnest young men who got all intense about everything . |
| 4 | And then Felipe came back after the war , and I knew I should have believed in myself and waited for him . |
| 5 | I mean , I did n't think so at the time but when I think of it you know , and later when I came back after the war we , oh my God ! |
| 6 | erm And erm when he came back after the war , he actually was so much involved on the parliamentarian side he had to leave Oxford during the war , but when he came back he built a school in the city which was actually in the Guildhall courtyard , it was built round the courtyard , and that remained a free school , for the city 's boys right up to the end of the 19th century . |
| 7 | But so many would not come back from the war . |
| 8 | Later in the year , when the poet Apollinaire came back from the war with a head wound , a grand banquet was held in his honour at the Palais d'Orléans in the Boulevard du Maine . |
| 9 | Then Boy cut to a black and white film in which a good man comes back from the war in uniform and finds his wife hostessing a party in black satin with orchids , and he throws out her gin-drinking friends , and she says to them , laughing but then not laughing at all , my husband would like to be alone with me . |
| 10 | Unlike Eb , Josh had come back from the war in one piece , hale and hearty . |
| 11 | There were two Irish boys in here earlier , in uniform , back from the war . ’ |
| 12 | Did erm did you notice any great differences when you came back from the war ? |
| 13 | What erm what kind of employment did you find when you came back from the war ? |
| 14 | When Mr. Andrew came back from the war old Mr. Stavanger was dead . |
| 15 | When I got back from the war it was all gone destroyed by full employment — not that I 'm regretting that , you understand . |
| 16 | Every one of those men who went in the forces , who lived to tell the tale , was given their jobs back when they came back , because their jobs were replaced by women during the war , drivers and conductors , they were replaced by women and as the men came back , so the women were paid off , so everybody who came back from the war was given their job back . |
| 17 | Oh yes well I mean , I , I , I came back from the war |
| 18 | ‘ When I came back from the war , we still had rationing for a few years . |
| 19 | He 's only back from the war two minutes and he 's put the Medical Officer of Health 's nose out of joint . |
| 20 | When I woke up back in the war , I could feel the difference at once . |
| 21 | By July 1943 he was back in the War Office , as deputy chief engineer and a major-general . |
| 22 | If the Second World War is often regarded as the watershed of ‘ permissiveness ’ , then those with more educated tastes — who perhaps remember the precipitating crisis of the Public Order Act of 1936 and Mosley 's black shirts , or who might have read the descriptions of pre-war razor gangs in Graham Greene 's Brighton Rock — look back beyond the war before that , to the slumbering golden years of Edwardian England which is one of the most authoritative versions of the true location of the ‘ British way of life ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ You 're all mad , ’ said a red-nosed Bardolphian Gefreiter , ‘ I wish I could be a prisoner : you would n't catch me trying to get back to the war ’ |
| 24 | Distracted relatives , not knowing whether their menfolk were interned in this country , interned in Canada or drowned , were directed by the Home Office to the War Office and from there to the Admiralty , who sent them back to the War Office . |
| 25 | Next day my father went back to the war and my mother back to the boarding school where she was on teaching practice as a French assistante , and spoke to the future wives of doctors and civil servants : Je suis , tu es , il est , nous sommes . |
| 26 | Faced by the Greek leaders come to manipulate him back to the war Achilles stalks off before they can reach him , pointedly speaking prose : ‘ Come , Patroclus , I 'll speak with nobody . |
| 27 | ‘ Afraid not — it 's back to the war tomorrow . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , let's not harp back to the war , Daddy , ’ Madeleine said as she reached up to plant a kiss on his cheek . |
| 29 | This change of mood was gradual , but the germs of militancy within the deaf community go back to the war years , although the BDDA leadership responded to it only slowly . |
| 30 | On the outbreak of war in September Holland went back to the War Office . |