Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [prep] the war " in BNC.
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1 | Unlike Eb , Josh had come back from the war in one piece , hale and hearty . |
2 | Later in the year , when the poet Apollinaire came back from the war with a head wound , a grand banquet was held in his honour at the Palais d'Orléans in the Boulevard du Maine . |
3 | Did erm did you notice any great differences when you came back from the war ? |
4 | What erm what kind of employment did you find when you came back from the war ? |
5 | When Mr. Andrew came back from the war old Mr. Stavanger was dead . |
6 | Every one of those men who went in the forces , who lived to tell the tale , was given their jobs back when they came back , because their jobs were replaced by women during the war , drivers and conductors , they were replaced by women and as the men came back , so the women were paid off , so everybody who came back from the war was given their job back . |
7 | Oh yes well I mean , I , I , I came back from the war |
8 | ‘ When I came back from the war , we still had rationing for a few years . |
9 | And er so when I came back after the War he says er , I object to him starting , he 's not come f direct from conscription , he volunteered for the Army . |
10 | And then Felipe came back after the war , and I knew I should have believed in myself and waited for him . |
11 | I mean , I did n't think so at the time but when I think of it you know , and later when I came back after the war we , oh my God ! |
12 | erm And erm when he came back after the war , he actually was so much involved on the parliamentarian side he had to leave Oxford during the war , but when he came back he built a school in the city which was actually in the Guildhall courtyard , it was built round the courtyard , and that remained a free school , for the city 's boys right up to the end of the 19th century . |
13 | The poppy-seller , ‘ one of the boys in the 8th Army ’ , came out of the war with a bit of shrapnel in the back of his neck — and a more permanent suspicion of German reunification . |
14 | Although the majority of the people did n't know I believe that came out after the war , but people who were affected , they knew exactly that their son or husband was in Dachau |
15 | Standing there and scowling and telling Mrs Gotobed that he was n't coming back after the war , that he was n't going into the shop … |
16 | Then the soldiers started coming back after the war , and we got new members of staff — earnest young men who got all intense about everything . |
17 | There was a lot of talk but of course you always had these people who sons and that in the army , and they would always come in with the war situation . |
18 | But so many would not come back from the war . |
19 | When I come out of the , I 'd a th thing I never told you which you should have known , when I come out of the war there were , we was only getting twenty seven and tanner a week in the stables . |
20 | Then Boy cut to a black and white film in which a good man comes back from the war in uniform and finds his wife hostessing a party in black satin with orchids , and he throws out her gin-drinking friends , and she says to them , laughing but then not laughing at all , my husband would like to be alone with me . |