Example sentences of "[det] [verb] the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just because we have , a so called civilized nation that we live in that destroys the world , that destroys animals that destroys the environment we 're living in ! |
| 2 | Young , a Croft Inns catering manager and Les Simms , a BBC engineer , have each won the world championship for honey making for their Dromore Beekeepers Club in the past two years . |
| 3 | What we have here is a senile man , desperate to be right ; his story is all that holds the world together , he just knows . |
| 4 | The answer to Ross Ferguson 's ( Letters , 24 March , p 840 ) is as follows : Fire and Ice Some say the world will end in fire , Some say in ice . |
| 5 | The question whether this brought the world nearer to inevitable self-destruction or , paradoxically , made it stabler and safer from major war than ever before was to occupy the best minds of the decade . |
| 6 | The goings on and comings off that stunned the world this week . |
| 7 | To Jonathan Warner she has sold UK and Commonwealth rights in a first novel , Spidertown , by Puerto Rican Abraham Rodriguez , for spring 1994 , and to Michael Fishwick she has sold Bart Kosko ‘ s Fuzzy Thinking , the textbook for the new concept of fuzzy logic — that sees the world not as black and white , or , in computer terms , 0 and 1 , but having grey areas about which ‘ intelligent products ’ ( including camcorders and washing machines ) have to make ‘ judgements ’ . |
| 8 | This means that they all perceive the world in slightly different ways . |
| 9 | While the electric telegraph , early radio , news agencies and film all girdled the world , today the scale and quantity are much greater . |
| 10 | In their own ways , do they not all see the world through rose-coloured spectacles ? |
| 11 | I mean , we all know the world 's not perfect . |
| 12 | And what is even more wonderful , they all think the world of each other . |
| 13 | ‘ They all think the world of her too . |
| 14 | ‘ They all think the world of her too . |
| 15 | Well we 've all loved the world , so it 's g no good kidding |
| 16 | After all if we say , ‘ I did n't appreciate that remark , ’ that tells the world something about us , and we may perceive that it is unwise to let people know that the remark disturbs us at all so we do not share our feelings . |
| 17 | Yeah , one bomb 's enough to kill the world |
| 18 | ‘ Awards ceremonies seem to adhere to more or less the same format the world over , ’ Maria commented , betraying slight disappointment . |
| 19 | That makes the world full of ill-favour 'd children . |
| 20 | ‘ O 't is love … that makes the world go round ’ , |
| 21 | If they both say the world behaves in exactly the same way , you ca n't say one is right and the other wrong . |
| 22 | And they both think the world of Heather . |
| 23 | Although Adrian is the Olympic champion , we both held the world record and Adrian has had perhaps a four year head start on myself . |