Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Watching Jamila sometimes made me think the world was divided into three sorts of people : those who knew what they wanted to do ; those ( the unhappiest ) who never knew what their purpose in life was ; and those who found out later on . |
| 2 | ‘ There 's a little God in me helping the world — when I see women wearing pointy bras at gigs , I see the power Madonna has . |
| 3 | If I ruled the world everyone would sing and shout , war and bombs are the things I would throw out . |
| 4 | There 's lots of things I would n't like to do if I ruled the world how about you ? |
| 5 | An eight year old , if I ruled the world , if I was in charge this is how I would organize things and then and I believe , what I believe in . |
| 6 | ‘ You know you said humans think someone made the world in a week ? |
| 7 | I mean the world 's made up of all different coloured people — why should n't we have different faces and all ? |
| 8 | Well , well his parents I mean the extreme Protestants are , are on the rise I mean in South America you know I mean the world 's largest Pentecostal Churches are in Lima and Peru and millions are now becoming erm born-again Christians in South America . |
| 9 | I fear the world invisible is more visible to him than to the rest of us . |
| 10 | ( Well , I say the world 's press , but the fiercest opposition , by the end , was from Today , edited by the shrewd young Ulsterman David Montgomery . ) |
| 11 | At the conclusion of this study , I want the world to recognize , with me , the open door of every consciousness . |
| 12 | I want the world to know how things stand , and that we 're being truthful and open and not ashamed or in any way put down . |
| 13 | ‘ Perhaps I mock the world in general , if I mock at all . |
| 14 | From my attic bedroom I thought I surveyed the world . |
| 15 | Imran , 39 , said he was not very optimistic at the moment because the injury ‘ has not improved at all since I played the World Cup final ’ . |
| 16 | And because I am in the public eye it is important that I fight back , that I show the world that the police are not infallible and that the rotten apples in the barrel must be exposed . |
| 17 | I know the world does n't want that for Britain . |
| 18 | ‘ I know the world , more 's the pity . ’ |
| 19 | Alive inside my skin , indifferent to the blister smarting in the soft cruck of my thumb , I sensed the world changing round me — ; a sensation of risk , of things poised on a hot brink where anything might happen and never be the same again . |
| 20 | Mark 's getting registered as a disabled person , which should help speed things up , but I do n't really know , I reckon the world just wants to forget about us . ’ |
| 21 | I believe the world cricket authorities have got their act right by bringing in South Africa into the World Cup at virtually the eleventh hour and the IRB should not be stuck in the mud . |
| 22 | But now I feel the world has ceased to exist . |
| 23 | I felt the world beginning to drift into the distance again , but I knew what was happening this time and got my head down quickly . |
| 24 | When I finally roused myself and walked , unsteadily at first , to the green door and then through the other garden and the house , now silent — for our party had moved away and there was only a lady in an obviously twentieth century flowered smock at a little table in the hall — I felt the world was drained of colour and that I could not face anyone who was not Orlando . |
| 25 | I came to England when I was 9 , that would have been in 1961 , and that 's when I saw the world for what it 's all about , I was still a child but I saw it , the black and white thing , it was a reality . |
| 26 | I saw the world through glass . |
| 27 | I conquered the world for you … |
| 28 | Kowalik said : ‘ I reached the World Championship semi-finals last year and I must do the same again to prove that my career is on course . |
| 29 | The doctor , for instance , stated : ‘ I use the World Health Organisation classification of impairment , disability and handicap , and handicap is the social effect of the disadvantage suffered because of a person having disability which means a loss or an alteration of function due to impairment . ’ |
| 30 | So I mostly chose Uncle Bill because I thought the world of him , but I was cunning enough to go to Uncle Geordie 's about every fourth week . |