Example sentences of "[adj] world [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the war , it was a different world they inherited like everyone else and Shaw did n't like it . |
| 2 | Think what a different world it would be if Anthony Cheetham had done that instead of starting Century . |
| 3 | ‘ In today 's strange old world we have to face up to many unusual things . ’ |
| 4 | In the Old World we are familiar with such large hunters as wolves , dogs , hyenas , and the big cats — lions , tigers , leopards and cheetahs . |
| 5 | In the Old World they have a counterpart in the form of the strange , scaly anteaters , the pangolins . |
| 6 | Although this technique has a long ancestry in the Old World it was unknown in the Americas until the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century . |
| 7 | I do n't quite recognize this world we 're in . |
| 8 | The lists of possessions bequeathed in aristocratic wills — horses , hunting-dogs and hawks , swords and daggers , belts and baldrics , body-armour , spurs , cloaks and furs , bracelets and rings , drinking-cups and silver dishes — allow a glimpse of this world we have lost . |
| 9 | Most of us , as people who live in this world , are interested in our environment , and even if not young we certainly grow to appreciate it and to learn a bit about flowers and the way animals live and work in our garden and watching David Attenborough on television and erm we have a genuine interest because as part of this world we know it and come to understand it , and probably feel , therefore , if even if you 're not a biology specialist , which you certainly do n't have to be by any means , when a child asks a question about , you know , ‘ where do the flies go in winter ? ’ and ‘ why 's the hamster gone to sleep for three months ? ’ we feel more capable of answering it because we 're closer to it ourselves and those are the sorts of questions that people told us . |
| 10 | Most of us , as people who live in this world , are interested in our environment , and even if not young we certainly grow to appreciate it and to learn a bit about flowers and the way animals live and work in our garden and watching David Attenborough on television and erm we have a genuine interest because as part of this world we know it and come to understand it , and probably feel , therefore , if even if you 're not a biology specialist , which you certainly do n't have to be by any means , when a child asks a question about , you know , ‘ where do the flies go in winter ? ’ and ‘ why 's the hamster gone to sleep for three months ? ’ we feel more capable of answering it because we 're closer to it ourselves and those are the sorts of questions that people told us . |
| 11 | For this world they inhabited , this world they talked so animatedly about , had been the world her brother had loved , the world where he had lived . |
| 12 | For this world they inhabited , this world they talked so animatedly about , had been the world her brother had loved , the world where he had lived . |
| 13 | ’ We figured , ’ their leader said in an almost respectful tone , ’ that if anyone might have heard thing or two on this world it 'd be you , Mister Curb , Miz Yorder . ’ |
| 14 | Er this erm world of fantasy is a very wonderful place because in this world it 's very easy to meet peoples ' I T requirements . |
| 15 | In fact when God created this world he is described as working ( Gen. 2:13 ) , and frequently the world is said to be the work of his hands . |
| 16 | Since then she had searched and searched , her curiosity unflagging , trying to catch him out — to find some small part of this world he had made that was n't finished . |
| 17 | In this world you do n't exist without money . |
| 18 | Oh , Jessie , of all the people you could have taken a fancy to in this world you 've got to go and pick one of the Feltons . |
| 19 | In this world you will have trouble . |
| 20 | In this world you might well need us . |
| 21 | For some time , I have been kneading and reshaping a deeply discomforting , if homely adage : If you 're not successful in this world you wo n't be successful in the next . |
| 22 | In this world you get nothing for nothing . ’ |
| 23 | If you want something in this world you have to be positive , she reflected , so , instead of quelling the emotions which arose within her , perhaps she should agree to become Vitor 's bride and attempt to capture his heart ? |
| 24 | Nevertheless , as long as I am in this world I remain a sinner , still capable of letting him down . |
| 25 | There is no genie to snap its fingers and whiplash me out of this world I am living in . |
| 26 | ‘ Now as through this world I ramble , |
| 27 | It seems that , whatever I do here in this world I 'm in , I just get more and more money |
| 28 | Aye everything was gi really fantastic the people that helped the people that gave to the strike , out of this world I know the help they had was really fantastic . |
| 29 | Miss Harker had a kind heart , but was she really in touch with this world she lived in and was so anxious to change ? |
| 30 | It was another world she was in , a world of promise that was even better when the grey weather lifted on the following Wednesday . |