Example sentences of "was [prep] the first world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aeroplanes had been seen in the county from about 1912 but it was during the First World War that they became common . |
| 2 | That was during the First World War , I should be I suppose about five then . |
| 3 | He was a dredgerman yes , see he was on the river first then he went on the dredger and course that 's before my time and that was during the First World War he was on he was at Ramsgate . |
| 4 | Oh it was after the First World War because everything was rationed and you could n't buy onions but er I 'd say it was about seventy years ago |
| 5 | He had been on the fringes of politics in the nineteen-hundreds , he had sought erm to get adopted as a parliamentary candidate , he had erm taken part in the movement for female emancipation , erm on one occasion the police were only prevailed upon to save him from being mobbed by an angry crowd by being told that he was the brother of an Earl erm But it was with the First World War that his practical activities really began . |
| 6 | Clyne House , the Royal Schools for the Deaf ( Manchester ) 's nursery department , was once again turned into a military hospital just as it was in the First World War . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | One was from erm from Baghdad to Barqu and the other one was from Barqu to Basrah because he was in the First World War , I think he was serving with the Middlesex Regiment and erm , I do n't know how he managed this , I never did understand . |
| 9 | At the start of the second world war , there was an enormous expansion in the Territorial Army , as there was in the first world war . |
| 10 | The last record of the bark being used for rope-making was in the First World War , when the German army used lime bark ropes to tow their guns . |
| 11 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |