Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] before the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man is dressed in the elegant black and white of Cambridge before the First World War . |
| 2 | She got out as soon as she could , and found work in the weaving sheds — " she was a good weaver ; six looms under her by the time she was sixteen " — marry , produce nine children , eight of whom emigrated to the cotton mills of Massachusetts before the First World War , managed , " never went before the Guardians " .1 It was much , much later that I learned from One Hand Tied Behind Us that four was the usual number of looms for a Lancashire weaver ; Burnley weavers were not well organised , and my great-grandmother had six not because she was a good weaver but because she was exploited . " |
| 3 | Again , in Ellen Ross 's study of the East End of London before the First World War , the theme of women assisting other women comes across strongly . |
| 4 | The British Lions were amused to read of the plight of referee Steve McNally when they picked up the local paper in Paihia before the first match of their New Zealand tour . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |