Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | We promised you the world 's top racer at the start . |
| 2 | The pair cringed in embarrassment as the president , speaking through an interpreter , paid them the world 's most unlikely compliment . |
| 3 | His loneliness as a child had been reinforced by his years of solitary endeavour in the north-west frontier in India and Kenya , which made him the world 's leading authority on the diseases of the camel . |
| 4 | The Australians showed just one glimpse of the sort of electrifying back play that won them the World Cup so brilliantly just a year ago . |
| 5 | Another winner from those who gave you the world 's best-selling commercial GPS navigator . |
| 6 | FURIOUS Nigel Mansell ended his Formula One career yesterday with a blast at the team which gave him the World Drivers ' Championship . |
| 7 | Eubank has been at his best when right up against it and facing defeat , especially in the battle with Nigel Benn that first gave him the world middleweight title and then when he climbed off the floor in the second , tragic contest with Michael Watson . |
| 8 | The 32-year-old Irishman said his struggle to return to the form which won him the world title and Tours of France and Italy in 1987 his 1987 level , when he won a world title and the Tours of France and Italy , had placed strains on his family . |
| 9 | The '70s energy crisis gave us the world 's first solar-powered loudspeaker . |