Example sentences of "[noun prp] during [art] first [noun sg] war " in BNC.
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1 | He 'd been a prisoner-of-war in Germany during the First World War and as a result of his wartime experiences suffered constantly from a weak chest . |
2 | British Commander-in-Chief in France and Flanders during the First World War . |
3 | In context the psychoanalysis in order to explain erm Wilson 's actions and er , attitudes in the pres presidency of the United States during the First World War , basically con concentrates on erm . |
4 | It 's an old generator dumped from a Zeppelin as it flew over Stroud during the first world war . |
5 | ( It is all very much the same story as D. H. Lawrence 's persecution in Cornwall during the First World War . ) |
6 | She told Anne that she could understand how she felt as John had been born when his father was in France during the First World War . |
7 | For the next eighty years the argument that a tunnel under the silver streak of the Channel would pose a major security problem held sway , although a tunnel would have been of great advantage to Britain during the First World War . |
8 | The second is a structure , unique in its figures and inscription , in memory of the Waggoners ' Reserve , a volunteer corps of 1,000 local farmworkers , paid only £1 a year , who provided horse-drawn transport carrying vital supplies to the trenches in Europe during the First World War . |
9 | He served in Mesopotamia during the First World War , came home in 1916 to transfer to an infantry regiment . |
10 | If you were lucky enough to be invited for * Eight at Number Eight' , you would sit at the dining table under the inscrutable gaze of Duncan Grant 's tabby-cat ; this cat was painted at Charleston during the First World War , and bought by the Berkeleys many years later for £75 from the Lefevre Gallery . |
11 | Its manifestation , in neutral Switzerland during the First World War , rapidly spread through post-war Europe as a declaration of personal freedom . |
12 | The son of a professor , Boomer became interested in golf when he watched the six-times Open Champion Harry Vardon , whose birthplace he shared , playing in Jersey during the First World War . |