Example sentences of "served in " in BNC.
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| 1 | FAST food now accounts for almost one meal in every 10 served in the UK . |
| 2 | Her father , who served in the Brigade of Guards , was the original Beachcomber columnist on the Daily Express and also guarded Sir Roger Casement when he was a prisoner in the Tower . |
| 3 | Khieu Samphan , 58 , has a doctorate in economics from the University of Paris , and after returning to Cambodia set up a left-wing newspaper and served in Sihanouk 's parliament before fleeing to join the Khmer Rouge in the bush in 1967 . |
| 4 | During the war he served in the Home Army , working for the clandestine radio show , and took part in the Warsaw rising of 1944 , which he later described as ‘ the most tragic of all Polish insurrections ’ . |
| 5 | He served in the Colonial Administrative Service of the Gold Coast from 1945 to 1957 and , from earliest days , was convinced of the urgent need to Africanise the civil service , in preparation for independence . |
| 6 | What gets me about this guy Alderson is that he served in the country area of Cornwall , and he makes all these proposals about inner-city policing ; now how the hell would he know anything about the inner city ? |
| 7 | These shared residential houses for single elderly persons provide an important new welfare resource for the Association at a time when increasing numbers of those who served in World War II , and their dependents , are reaching an age when they need the support of a housekeeper . |
| 8 | Gp Capt Gilbert , Commanding Officer of the Base Support Wing of the local Edinburgh RAAF Station was present , and wreaths were laid by the various association and units represented in front of plaques of squadrons and units of the RAAF which served in WWII . |
| 9 | During its service life it served in Egypt , Aden and Nairobi as well as in the UK ( eg at No 204 AFS , Driffield ) . |
| 10 | The Association is experiencing an increase in welfare casework , particularly from those who served in the Air Force during the Second World War , and who are now elderly and in need of our support . |
| 11 | After World War N , during which he served in the army with the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers , he was attached to the War Office . |
| 12 | As the corporals head for lunch they pass a recruit from the TA platoon shepherding her visitors toward the museum , Where she is convinced that she has found a photograph of her mother , Who served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service in 1945 . |
| 13 | He served in a shadowy military death squad that kidnapped and murdered scores of Chileans . |
| 14 | Born in 1924 , his ambitions were delayed by the outbreak of the second world war in which he served in the Royal Naval Reserve from 1943 , first in Coastal Forces and then on minesweepers , rising to the rank of lieutenant before being demobilised three years later . |
| 15 | They served in the Sanusi forces to resist French expansion in the Sahel . |
| 16 | Despite its name , the wine was easy to drink , fruity and a greeny-yellow colour and served in a traditional long-stemmed wide glass . |
| 17 | He served in the US Army Signals Corps during the latter stages of the First World War before settling in Onawa , Iowa , where he worked as a teacher and ran a sweetshop in his spare time . |
| 18 | As ‘ Melville-Hill ’ he served in Burma , before going absent again in South Africa in 1941 . |
| 19 | From 1939 to 1941 he worked in the Ministry of Home Security ; he served in the Rifle Brigade until 1945 , rising to the rank of major . |
| 20 | He later served in the Nowshera Brigade and took part in the Mohmand operations . |
| 21 | Dave served in both the New Zealand and British Armies and then the enforcement branch of the New Zealand Wildlife Service . |
| 22 | He also served in Beirut . |
| 23 | From 1942 he served in India , where he attended the staff college at Quetta ; he then undertook a number of staff appointments in south-east Asia . |
| 24 | Mr Smith , who served in the Callaghan Cabinet in the late 1970s , reaffirmed his support for Scottish devolution and for constitutional reform , including the introduction of a Bill of Rights . |
| 25 | Earlier , the Maltese government 's 50th anniversary George Cross medal was presented by the President , Dr Censu Tabone , to 148 men and two women who served in Malta during the 1939–45 War . |
| 26 | During the Second World War Annesley served in the Home Guard . |
| 27 | Leslie served in ‘ A ’ Squadron of the 1st S.A.S. Regiment . |
| 28 | They are shaped in uniform sizes to ensure consistency in weight and value and served in a specially seasoned breading . |
| 29 | He had said he had n't seen her in the shop , so he must have called in on occasions when Ann would be in the sweet shop and Arthur Peeble in the tobacconist 's or her father was there taking Peeble 's place ; he rarely served in the sweet shop . |
| 30 | The Constable had been in the Force since 1924 and had an excellent character [ and ] served in the trenches at the age of fifteen and a half . |