Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] after the war " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we returned together to Ninfania , you and I , in the late Fifties , there was litter in the streets of southern Italy , and it made them look more unfamiliar to you than the new buildings put up after the war and the bombing . |
| 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 | And then Felipe came back after the war , and I knew I should have believed in myself and waited for him . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Although the majority of the people did n't know I believe that came out after the war , but people who were affected , they knew exactly that their son or husband was in Dachau |
| 7 | So , for example , many of the nurseries opened during the Second World War were closed down after the war . |
| 8 | When the balance sheet was finally totted up after the war , it was estimated that 1O , OOO Frenchmen alone had laid down their lives on this one small corner of France . |
| 9 | A Tokyo professor who studied secret papers , claimed the horror was hushed up after the war . |
| 10 | Oh it folded up after the war . |
| 11 | Indeed , having been brought up after the war and having heard of the plight of those poor people , one has never forgotten it in any case . |
| 12 | He was optimistic about the future and told the others that the politicians would be driven out after the war and the people would find their inspiration in science , technology , work and sport . |
| 13 | 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 … |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | One of them said : ‘ When the Communists took over after the war , some of the Fascists became the best Stalinists of all . |
| 16 | They are spurred by a marked sense of vocation : they are of the generation which grew up after the war when pollution came to be popularly identified as a serious problem needing urgent attention . |
| 17 | It was thrown up after the war to house the car workers . |
| 18 | In recognition of the enormous contribution that their Service had made to the successful conclusion of WWII , the Air Council set up after the war a war memorial committee . |
| 19 | The claim is to be presented to the UN Compensation Commission , but the commission " set up after the war to co-ordinate claims against Iraq " has few funds at its disposal . |
| 20 | Well we picked up after the war a bit . |
| 21 | A keen owner of fast motor cycles and cars since he was fifteen , he set out after the war to be a racing driver . |