Example sentences of "[noun sg] from the first world " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I can remember all the activity and er when it was erected there was a fella from the First World War , he lost a leg in the war and he was in charge of the billiards room and the tables , when they built the club itself the front part used to be devoted to card games and then they installed a billiards hall and the tables and as I say a chap named he used to live in Street , but he was , a lost a leg during the war and they found him the job of looking after the tables and marking |
| 2 | Her father had been an invalid from the First World War — some kind of nervous trouble , I believe . |
| 3 | A scene from the first world war … effects recreated for a unique airshow . |
| 4 | It was the main loser in both territory and population from the First World War . |
| 5 | He has been signed up for War Game , based on a story from the First World War , which will be published before the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the conflict . |
| 6 | It was simply that we were shooting the picture down in Brighton on the front to a large extent and on the rubbish dump , I remember , which we turned into the fields of northern France , and we needed that terrible phrase from the First World War , cannon fodder . |