Example sentences of "[adj] world [noun sg] and [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and if you take a film of of erm Hitler and er people of that ilk in the second world war and you analyse almost frame by frame you 'll see that and count the number of non-symmetrical hand gestures you will find that they 're quite high as a percentage . |
| 2 | The risk of an even greater concentration of power , and the attendant risk of its mis-use , was recognised after the Second World War and it meant the pre-war attempts of active buying out were never resumed . |
| 3 | Graham served in the RAF during the Second World War and it was under the war-time ‘ guesting ’ arrangement that he first turned out for Palace . |
| 4 | Indeed , the authorities made no move against the organization during the Second World War and it continued its activities unmolested . |
| 5 | ‘ Rodney Martin beat him in the 1991 World Championship and I 've beaten Martin , so anything is possible , ’ he said . |
| 6 | There are a number of books on contemporary world politics and you 've got some recommended er for you to read . |
| 7 | When I reviewed my performance I thought , well , it was my first major World Championship and I came fourth . |
| 8 | Er and I remember , I remember Street West , when the right hand side of Street west going from Road , every house was empty before the First World War and they gave somebody er somebody who lives in the end one and they were rent free if they keep all the rest clean , and always you see house to let where wherever it was in every street there was houses to let , and the price of the house in Street must be about eight shillings a week in those days , and then if you went up to I mean you 'd get in the twelve and sixpenny bracket and down in , those houses down in the that they were ten and six or something like that er |
| 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 | Me elder brother was in the First World War and he er he got married and er she was a flighty sort of girl and she was n't attending to er Mabel properly , the little girl , she had a girl and a boy . |
| 11 | He 's currently developing a play about Lawrence 's experiences in the First World War and he 's been asked to look at Lawrence 's novel Kangaroo , by the BBC . |
| 12 | Owen was the outstanding English poet of the First World War and I think that his poems will grow to be even more famous and appreciated . |
| 13 | He was the reigning world champion and he 'd won the first two races of the season . |
| 14 | We certainly have the colonial history , our economy is very much a Third World economy and we 're in a massive debt situation . |