Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [prep] [art] first world " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been a prisoner-of-war in Germany during the First World War and as a result of his wartime experiences suffered constantly from a weak chest . |
| 2 | The panels were commissioned by James A. de Rothschild for his London house in St James 's Place when he and his wife came to live in England after the First World War . |
| 3 | He had started work at the age of twelve as an apprentice electrician , wiring the houses of the rich in Liverpool before the First World War . |
| 4 | The emergence at this time of Freudian psychology , an important element in the international growth of this infant discipline in this period , offered one opposing perspective but was of insignificant influence in Britain before the First World War . |
| 5 | She told Anne that she could understand how she felt as John had been born when his father was in France during the First World War . |
| 6 | He had served in France in the First World War , commanded West Point , and served as chief of staff of the army before his able leadership of the allied forces in the south-west Pacific from 1942 to 1945 . |
| 7 | ( It is all very much the same story as D. H. Lawrence 's persecution in Cornwall during the First World War . ) |
| 8 | The second is a structure , unique in its figures and inscription , in memory of the Waggoners ' Reserve , a volunteer corps of 1,000 local farmworkers , paid only £1 a year , who provided horse-drawn transport carrying vital supplies to the trenches in Europe during the First World War . |
| 9 | Mrs Thatcher suggested that ‘ had America stayed in Europe after the first world war and we had a Nato then , I do not believe we would have had a second world war . |
| 10 | The museum houses the collection built up by the industrialist Josef Mueller who started purchasing objects for their aesthetic qualities in Europe after the First World War . |
| 11 | He served in Mesopotamia during the First World War , came home in 1916 to transfer to an infantry regiment . |
| 12 | There were unsubstantiated allegations of serious misbehaviour while Scotland were in Berne for the first World Cup qualifying Group I tie against Switzerland . |
| 13 | The son of a professor , Boomer became interested in golf when he watched the six-times Open Champion Harry Vardon , whose birthplace he shared , playing in Jersey during the First World War . |