Example sentences of "take [adv prt] the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | EVENTS / Conkering heroes take on the world |
| 2 | Lola gets up to no good with her handsome boyfriend , but it 's a basic boy meets girl story of how the pair defiantly take on the world . |
| 3 | He had been ready to defy the conventions and take on the world — and win ! he thought . |
| 4 | Take on the world and never cry craven , he 'd said . |
| 5 | They 're coming in on a starship disguised as a Boeing 747 so that the locals wo n't suspect until it 's too late , but when they land at London Heathrow their baggage gets lost ; all their heavy weaponry ends up in Miami and gets mixed up with the luggage of some psychiatrists attending an international symposium on anal-fixation after death , and : Freudians take over the world with the captured high-tech . |
| 6 | ‘ The Shiah , for example , or at least the ones in Iran , believe that the Twelfth Imam — who disappeared in mysterious circumstances over a thousand years ago — is going to come back with a huge army and take over the world . ’ |