Example sentences of "been [prep] [art] first world " in BNC.
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| 1 | We agreed to have him for a fortnight but when the time came he refused to go , and would be with us yet if it had not been for the First World War and your father having to go … |
| 2 | Had it not been for the First World War I might have been sent to school in England , separated indefinitely from my parents , as was the fate of so many English children whose fathers served in India or elsewhere in the East . |
| 3 | Truman indicated late in 1945 that the United States would not be a passive bystander in the Middle and Near East as it had been after the First World War . |
| 4 | so I 've shared a room with erm this chap Tom who was er he had been in the First World War and er though he seemed old to me at the time , I suppose he was probably in his thirties and erm he joined the Home Guard and erm lived , because he was bombed out where he lived in he moved out to Coptock had accommodation out there and er he was in the unit at Coptock and so that used to take up quite a bit of his time and other erm members of staff were , of course also had fire watching and erm various civil defence activities , quite apart from the work on the A R P shifts . |
| 5 | There were clearly changes occurring , and the borderlines between social classes , never very clear at the best of times , were probably less precise than they had been before the First World War — though class barriers were by no means collapsing in the real world of health , education and social opportunity . |