Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | She closed her eyes , tried to clear her mind , tried to let the world fall away with the rhythms of the journey . |
| 2 | THE BRAIN EMO story PART 2 : ‘ He tried to change the world by turning it on its side and calling it something else ’ |
| 3 | GREAT POP THINGS — THE PHIL COLLINS STORY ( Prelude to All Hate Special ) : ‘ HE TRIED TO CHANGE THE WORLD WITH HIS ALL ROUND VERSATILITY ’ |
| 4 | They reckoned to have walked 18 miles each to and from the board as they tried to beat the world record of 510,625 scored in 25s and bullseyes in 24 hours . |
| 5 | She also reveals how the actor who tried to make the world a better place was to rescue her from the brink again . |
| 6 | After riding across a glacier at 20,000 ft , Martin told his parents by fax from Nepal he 'd broken the world record . |
| 7 | I came to see the world as an abundant and joyous place to be . |
| 8 | Since childhood Wycliffe had experienced episodes when he seemed to see the world about him through fresh eyes , as though , without warning , he had become an intruder in some foreign place , and he would be overcome by the strangeness of it all . |
| 9 | Fuck , she 'd forgotten the World Cup was on . |
| 10 | I 'd missed the World Cup draw on TV to boot . |
| 11 | Charles took on Diana 's mantle speaking on terminal illness , while she prepared to tread the world stage . |
| 12 | His production of Mrs Warren 's Profession for the National Theatre in 1971 steered cunningly clear of melodrama ; his Much Ado About Nothing for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1971 featured white parasols and sun-dappled lawns that seemed to evoke the world of Turgenev . |
| 13 | Who saw himself as Jesus , really , and although Jesus came to save the world , he saved the world in a rather masochistic manner , by getting crucified . |
| 14 | He came to save the world in nineteen eighteen , but he got crucified by Clements or Lloyd George . |
| 15 | In October 1962 Kennedy blockaded Cuba and forced Khruschev to withdraw his missiles in a crisis which seemed to take the world to the brink of nuclear war . |
| 16 | I abandoned France and her rulers when they abandoned Liberty , gave themselves up to tyranny , and endeavoured to enslave the world . ’ |
| 17 | Much as she deserved to travel the world with people of her own social standing , she could no longer hope to do so with a happy hear and a clear conscience . |
| 18 | Instead McIllvanney was the Bahamian agent for a Miami-based business that claimed to provide the world 's most beautiful girls to anyone with the money to pay for them . |
| 19 | It seems that they are designed and marketed to challenge the world 's top players to the extreme . |
| 20 | Venezuela , Ecuador , Chile , Colombia , Paraguay and Argentina were all approached ; each declined to bear the world 's shame single-handed . |
| 21 | Mr Hooker , a motor trade production foreman who began assembling the world 's largest collection of grips 12 years ago , has seen antique fair prices for rare ones rise from a fiver , two or three years ago , to the present £20-£30 , all due , he says , to the boom in advertising ephemera . |
| 22 | ‘ Look what happened to God after that Time cover — fundamentalism began sweeping the world . |
| 23 | In a host of ways not directly connected with Darwin 's theory , naturalists sought to reduce the world to a comprehensible order . |
| 24 | One of Britain 's finest music journalists , the sadly redundant Nick Kent , decided to re-enter the world of journalism via a retrospective on the one group he found worthy , The Smiths . |
| 25 | But , after a moment 's consideration , the girl from Down Under decided to face the world after all … and came up smiling . |
| 26 | More recently Lou has cleaned up his act and started setting the world to rights . |
| 27 | Christine , 52 , decided to tell the world of her own experiences about two years ago , as much for therapeutic reasons as through a desire to reach those with similar horror stories to tell . |
| 28 | Dear god , everything is so wrong , look , it took you six days to make the world , but does it say in the bible that it took you fifteen days to design it , oh no you just got up and decided to make the world . |
| 29 | Rather however than acknowledge that the Irish state , which refused any longer to play the Commonwealth game and declared itself a republic , was therefore a foreign country , Britain proceeded to divide the world not as hitherto into two portions — British subjects and aliens — but into three — British subjects , aliens and Irish . |
| 30 | And I was er doing my part I thought to change the world and get everybody into the union so we could get , get better conditions for , for everybody and all this , more money anyhow . |