Example sentences of "desire [to-vb] the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Bletchley I had begun to satisfy , however pathetically and inadequately , a desire to see the world about me , but then had neither the time nor the money nor the opportunity for anything other than very restricted local journeys . |
| 2 | Expressing a desire to see the world first , he set off to spend a year teaching elementary mathematics in Kenya . |
| 3 | ‘ When I knew him , ’ writes Khrushchev , ‘ he was bursting with an impatient desire to rule the world . |
| 4 | In my excited state , as the trees close over my head , I see this kind of thinking , this desire to reshape the world into something reassuring , as having many applications . |
| 5 | If used frequently , or if used in conjunction with the soliloquy , this mode of direct presentation brings us into closer contact with that person , so that we in part share his or her hopes and fears , become more closely involved with their desire to control the world . |
| 6 | Christina Rossetti , the Victorian poet , struggled with these words of Paul in her desire to overcome the world , the flesh and the devil . |