Example sentences of "killed [prep] the [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirty years ago they built seven homes in the village for war veterans , in memory of the present owner 's great uncle , who was killed during the First World War . |
| 2 | On Sunday 10th November it fell once again to Sir Alan Sykes to unveil the War Memorial , now containing the sixty additional names of Old Stopfordians killed during the Second World War . |
| 3 | Asked in interviews about his parents , Crawford tells the story of his RAF sergeant-pilot father who was shot down and killed during the Second World War , before his birth . |
| 4 | She has toured Driving Miss Daisy and is now starring in a Rodney Ackland play at Richmond called The Dark River , playing an elderly schoolteacher whose son was killed in the First World War . |
| 5 | Warwickshire , the county of Percy Jeeves , killed in the First World War , and after whom the resourceful butler was named ; Warwickshire whose tie P.G . |
| 6 | And they 've er they 've both died and one was killed in the First World War . |
| 7 | Along the colonnade under Upper School were recorded 1157 names of Old Etonians killed in the First World War ( 748 others , including my brother Dermot 's , were added to them after the Second World War ) . |
| 8 | erm if you go back to the nineteen thirties , for example , depression , love on the dole , deferral of marriage , potential husbands killed in the first World War , low birthrate , small families , below the level that would replace the population in future , and many of the Wartime and late War reports erm the Royal Commission on population , which reported in forty nine , suggested that population may stagnate , round about forty million plus , even decline to about thirty million . |
| 9 | The Eighties ended with Mrs Thatcher being forced to concede increased pensions of £40 a week for widows of servicemen killed in the second world war . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought he got killed in the Second World War ! ’ |
| 11 | In his childhood several adults he had loved had been killed in the Second World War . |
| 12 | Relatives of an R-A-F bomber crew killed in the Second World War have flown to Russia for a memorial service . |
| 13 | Fire fighters from across the country have been paying tribute to airmen who were killed in the second world war . |