Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [prep] the war " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was born into the war torn world of May 1915 in a mile long street of two storey houses strategically located between Wallsend railway station and Wallsend drill hall . |
| 2 | The National Old People 's Welfare Committee , later called Age Concern , sought to promote the welfare of old people throughout the United Kingdom and relieve the conditions which were revealed by the war . |
| 3 | It challenged the shibboleths of Liberalism — free trade , the gold standard , retrenchment and peace — all of which were abandoned during the war . |
| 4 | Essential , essential work which was operated during the war years and er what year a couple , several years after that . |
| 5 | It 's an ex-London Midland and Scottish Railway Class 5P4F 2-6-0 No. 42765 which was born between the wars at Crewe Works in 1927 . |
| 6 | And the system of Standing Cabinet Committees , which was developed in the War Cabinet days , now makes it possible to work with a smaller Cabinet , on the lines of your War Cabinet and ‘ Caretaker ’ Cabinet , 49 without impairing the principle of collective responsibility . |
| 7 | A CHARITY has been asked to help furnish a church in a Croatian village which was damaged in the war with the Serbs but has been painstakingly rebuilt by the villagers . |
| 8 | The village hall was a disused chapel bought for the use of the village by Sir Godfrey MacDonald , the local squire at the time , to replace an earlier public hall which was destroyed during the war . |
| 9 | Among these , according to Fedor Polenov , Head of the Russian Delegation and Chairman of the Russian Supreme Soviet Commission for Culture , is the intention on the German side to give Russia a number of works from the Bremen Collection for Russian museums , and also to give financial and technical aid for the restoration of the Novgorod Museum and Park , and to help in making up the museums collection which was destroyed during the war . |
| 10 | The poem was n't written to give a realistic account of war but to glorify those men who were killed in the war , to give some comfort to their friends and relatives . |
| 11 | And er really when you sort of l look at the children who were born during the war and were brought up during the war , they 're all pretty strong and healthy . |
| 12 | For those who were born since the war , the Barlaston Museum exhibition is a living reminder of the efforts taken by the company to ensure the Wedgwood name continued in times of the greatest adversity . |
| 13 | I do n't think they 'll be any left once the generation who were born before the war see are gone . |
| 14 | I myself have a sister with two sons who were martyred in the war … |
| 15 | He wrote it for the young men who were dying in the war , but the words may offer a little comfort . |
| 16 | The construction of such a large building was welcomed by the people of Louth , especially as it would create jobs for many men who were returning from the war . |
| 17 | The Scouts had rushed skiddingly from one pod to the next , annihilating languid swanky drugsters , warbling liquorites , squirming orgiasts who were responding to the war in their own indulgent style , if they even heeded it at all . |
| 18 | He tells me the story of two US servicemen who were stationed during the war near the Welsh town where he grew up . |
| 19 | If someone asked you , who is that man ? you said , oh , she was wounded in the war , you know . |
| 20 | Oh we Oh I suppose we were told about the war but being young and heedless we would not take it all in . |
| 21 | But oh we were told about the war and what was happening between the Germans and whatnot . |
| 22 | A few , however , did leave and at least one was killed in the war . |
| 23 | He knew that he had been the only really close friend and confidant of Modigliani from 1907 to 1914 , until they were separated by the war . |
| 24 | And until they were separated by the war , he followed his friend 's artistic production step by step with the intention of saving an exceptional body of masterpieces . |
| 25 | ‘ There were houses all down this side of the street once , ’ said Mrs Darne , ‘ but they were bombed in the war . |
| 26 | As baby Odessa 's condition deteriorated they were forced by the war to leave her in a hospital in Belgrade . |
| 27 | So small was the number of beneficiaries , they were outnumbered in the war years by those children who joined the RCM ranks having turned up in Britain by long and roundabout escape routes . |
| 28 | She pinpoints specific institutions , like the Institute for Research in Reproductive Biology , and how they were normalised after the war , showing that the work of researchers themselves , like Carl Clauberg , was continued and became part of present-day reproductive science . |
| 29 | And what if Martin does n't have any children ; or , say , if he were to die in the war and you survived , what then … |
| 30 | Montreal Central eventually served the CPR express lines as well as the CNR , but , compared with Toronto or Cincinnati Union , there was something half-hearted about it , despite the trumpetings with which it was received during the war . |