Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | It certainly made an unusual change from cranberry sauce and was one of the most memorable tastes I experienced in the New World . |
| 2 | Like you , it 's high time I returned to the real world . ’ |
| 3 | Not even Jonathan , she thought suddenly , ever really saw anything but the smooth , exquisite façade that she presented to the outside world . |
| 4 | The underground happened everywhere simultaneously : it was simply what you did in the H-bomb world if you were , by nature , creative and concerned for humanity as a whole … |
| 5 | The colonel gave me a friendly pat on the shoulder , and we made for the outside world again . |
| 6 | All though the lunch we talked of the undersea world . |
| 7 | In his spotless home , amongst his large and benevolent family , we were fed enormous meals , shown their exotic collection of shells and sponges , and pumped for all we knew about the outside world . |
| 8 | By and large they fell in happily with the exhortations they received from the Arab world not to take any unauthorized political initiatives . |
| 9 | It may be ‘ accidental that there is no Beaverbrook or Rothermere ’ but it is more likely that they would encounter an enormous backlash if they trespassed into the formal world of politics . |
| 10 | Their outsides remained functional ; it was only their insides , in so far as they belonged to the bourgeois world like the newly devised Pullman sleeping-cars ( 1865 ) and the first-class steamer saloons and state-rooms , which had décor . |
| 11 | She enjoyed being with her friends ; their conversation was lively and interesting , they belonged to the real world — the world she had left behind . |
| 12 | The new tariff also made payment of war debts by European countries to the USA more difficult since it prevented them from selling more goods to America than they bought from the new world . |
| 13 | If it referred to the natural world , it could be construed as a statement in the language of commonsense observation , accommodated to the understanding of all men and independent of scientific theory . |
| 14 | His goal was to discover a way of reconciling mechanism and science with the harmony which he perceived in the natural world , and with a life of individual creative freedom . |
| 15 | After the war he disappeared into the closed world of post-war intelligence with MI5 until 1956 before moving to MI6 as the real life ‘ M ’ made famous in fiction by James Bond creator Ian Fleming . |
| 16 | The natural effervescence of Paris can never be suppressed for long , and it had begun to burst forth from the restraint of the early days so that , by mid-1916 , it presented to the war-weary world a facade of miraculous brilliance ; to the men from Verdun it was an Arabian Night Baghdad . |
| 17 | In the early 1950s , however , the Egyptian revolution and the widespread Arab nationalist sentiments which it fostered throughout the Arab world found expression in anti-Western sentiment . |