1.   At last it seemed the war might be coming to an end.

2.   But when war came the persistent pedal-point of coalitionism sounded all the louder for the sudden silence of the party truce.

3.   It was an anxiety so consuming that it overshadowed what actually happened once the war came.

4.   The war finally came to an end six years later.

5.   Then the war came and after the war the concert-managers offered me a chance to do all the Mahler symphonies.

6.   We knew that war was coming, and were determined to make hay while we could.

7.   Some have armies and weapons because they fear that, come a war, they would need protection and defences.

8.   One respect in which the war came to acquire an international dimension concerned its impact on shipping.

9.   To him and to most of his European friends, it was as clear as daylight in the sky that a war was coming.

10.   But he knows what will happen if war comes.