Example sentences of "[verb] the whole world " in BNC.
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| 1 | They rained down like small coal from a sack , filling the air with choking dust which settled grimily over everything and made the whole world smell grey . |
| 2 | Greg leaned forward conspiratorially , as if one touch of malice made the whole world kin . |
| 3 | In an autobiographical account written a couple of years later , he described himself in having been " absolutely alone , of the most painful experiences and disappointments " ; and of his first response to " Schpenhauer 's masterpiece " he wrote that " in this book , in which every line cried out renunciation , denial and resignation , I saw a mirror in which I espied the whole world , life and my mind depicted in frightful grandeur " . |
| 4 | ‘ What does it profit a king , John , if he conquer the whole world and suffer the loss of his beloved son ? ’ |
| 5 | But as I watched him pick his way along the lifeless paths , I understood how much of him expected the whole world to be mournful now that Montaine had abandoned it . |
| 6 | Skin and sweat and scent and desire became the whole world . |
| 7 | ‘ He thinks the whole world revolves around his flipping programme . ’ |
| 8 | That does n't really grasp the point , but it sets Bernard off on another low-fi tirade against ‘ jump up and down bands ’ becoming part of the mainstream and generally bringing the whole world down : ‘ I could imagine Revolver being on Top Of The Pops , but I could n't imagine David Bowie being on , ’ he seethes , delicately . |
| 9 | ‘ It was hard for Satan alone to mislead the whole world , ’ declared the grandson of the BeSHT , Nachman of Bratislava , in one of his more caustic diatribes , ‘ so he appointed rabbis in different locations . ’ |
| 10 | Do n't want the whole world knowing about the KW . ’ |
| 11 | It 's true in some cases , naturally ; but very often it 's the people who have felt wounds that jest most at scars , because they do n't want the whole world to know . |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't tell me that you trust the whole world , ’ Alyssia could n't resist rejoining . |
| 13 | Make the whole world as smooth as a billiard ball , and people are still going to fall over and split their skulls open . |
| 14 | Everyone does n't have their birthday in February and March , I mean the whole world everyone 's bonking in |
| 15 | ‘ You must think the whole world 's against you at the moment . ’ |
| 16 | We 'll explore the whole world , be away for a year ’ |
| 17 | To succeed in a claim based on adverse possession the appellant would have to show a continuing intention to exclude the whole world from the premises including the legal owner … |
| 18 | Otherwise my little Liessa would be ruling the whole world by now , if I know anything about it . |
| 19 | I would n't trust the whole world . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , even for Fielding , Mr Allworthy in his Gothic mansion is an ideal as his name implies , a man whose estate epitomizes the whole world . |
| 21 | Peering ahead , I could sense the whole world turning . |
| 22 | He must feel the whole world is against him . |
| 23 | Told the whole world through a short story , if they wanted to read it . |
| 24 | God was sovereign ; He had the authority to destroy the whole world because of the sinfulness and violence of men . |
| 25 | For an instant it filled the whole world with noise and fear . |
| 26 | He beat a tattoo with the door-knocker , and again its reverberations filled the whole world . |
| 27 | This process of de-skilling all types of work is supercharged by computer scientists who were described by Weizenbaum as " being like children with a hammer who view the whole world as a nail . " |
| 28 | We can see the whole world here , the Empire , that 's the same thing as the whole world , and you 'll profit by it . |
| 29 | Sitting there they could see the whole world spread out until it reached the sky , and whatever there was all the world over was with them in Galleons Lap . |
| 30 | You can see the whole world . " |