Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] on [prep] the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | We wo n't be able to nod off as news presenters drone on about the world 's woes and mother-in-laws ring with the latest family crisis . |
| 2 | It is almost as if Big Brother begrudges us our pleasures and has decided to make us realise there are other things going on in the world other than cricket . |
| 3 | He had known she was old but she had been so full of vitality , and interested in all the things going on in the world , that her death was a shock . |
| 4 | That does n't mean you disregard adult commitments and disregard that there is some really shitty stuff going on in the world right now . |
| 5 | I am as aware as anyone of the changes going on in the world . |
| 6 | Boys should go to school because they need the skills to get on in the world , because they will spend their lives moving between household and family and the institutions of state and nation . |
| 7 | 200 students paid 2 pounds each to hear the Foreign Secretary talk about what he calls the soul searching and introspection going on around the world . |