Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the motive for praying for the saints is to equip them to minister in the world . |
| 2 | The public library has lost its soul because it has been absorbed into the modern semi-literate culture and because it did not have the knowledge and experience gained across generations that the old private libraries had to enable them to cope with the world of mass circulation popular fiction , for example , rather than the People 's University that Hoggart remembers from his youth in the Hunslet district of Leeds . |
| 3 | In 1966 I moved from the world of ‘ real polising ’ into areas of operational marginality which were further to confound the preference for the clearly delineated police world I had been brought up in . |
| 4 | I listen to the World Federalists and the Communists talk about One World and The Brotherhood of Man and how much they are doing to bring them about . |
| 5 | Now , in these quiet moments as I wait for the world about to awake , I find myself going over in my mind again passages from Miss Kenton 's letter . |
| 6 | I know exactly who I am and where I stand in the world . |
| 7 | I knew that only four miles away was my real home , Thrushcross Grange , containing the only people I loved in the world . |
| 8 | But as it is I feel before the world as Sidney before Stella ( Sonnet L ) |
| 9 | I acquired the skills to do this before I knew about the world , purely because of God 's will . |
| 10 | How long ago was it that I looked on the world with such innocent eyes ? |
| 11 | Yes , I had all the other feelings of distress and fear , I thought of the world at war , I remembered the last war of 1914 — 18 when I was still a schoolboy and I had experienced the air raids on London then . |
| 12 | So deeper and deeper I went into the world of science , wanting all the time to express myself in a totally different field . |
| 13 | Because he knew I could handle it , he knew I would n't rip him off , and he knew I 'd automatically get treated with respect everywhere I went in the world to represent the company . ’ |
| 14 | I went around the world , and I did n't fall off . |
| 15 | I was only half awake when I listened to the World Service . |
| 16 | ‘ Every penny I had in the world . ’ |
| 17 | Why , she thought , he is so much more uncertain than I am , he has lost touch with the world of women , as I have with the world of men . |
| 18 | The only media contact I have with the world is via the car battery and radio which picks up Radio Sarajevo and Radio Belgrade . ’ |
| 19 | Then the Cid assembled together the Christians in the Alcazar , and when they were assembled , he rose upon his feet and said , Friends and kinsmen and vassals , praised be God and holy Mary Mother , all the good which I have in the world I have here in Valencia ; with hard labour I won the city , and hold it for my heritage , and for nothing less than death will I leave it . |
| 20 | Eventually Stephen committed suicide in a Sydney hotel , leaving a note that stated , ‘ All the means I have in the world is on the table , 23/6d , and this I have borrowed ’ . |
| 21 | Two decades earlier Louis XIV had put it more succinctly : " Nothing happens in the world which does not come under the cognizance of … a good ambassador " , while in the early eighteenth century a leading international lawyer wrote flatly of resident diplomats that " it is precisely for the purpose of getting information that they are maintained in the courts of friendly powers " . |
| 22 | Athelstan dosed his eyes , praying from whatever psalm he could remember to fend off the awful terrors which clung to the world of men . |
| 23 | The anti-realist does not believe in the existence of this further ‘ real ’ world which lies behind the world that we know and which may come apart from our world in ways which of course we could not recognize if they occurred . |
| 24 | Where crops were sold both by large estates and small farmers or peasants , the situation was more complex , though in peasant economies , for obvious reasons , the proportion of the crop which came on the world market — i.e. which was not consumed by the producers — from large estates was normally much larger than that which came from the peasant holdings . |
| 25 | One response which can be made to the gap which exists between the world in which Christianity came into being and the present world is to allow what is to be held to be essentially normative for the religion to reside in the past . |
| 26 | Now it was the English helmet which belonged to the world of the news reel . |
| 27 | By late 1987 the situation was again serious , this time attributed to the spectacular stock-market crash which echoed around the world . |
| 28 | Each girl lit a candle and placed it at the altar , symbolic of the light of Christ which burns throughout the world . |
| 29 | Dwyer , however , disagrees : ‘ Sure we have experienced an extremely demanding schedule , particularly over the past year which took in the World Cup , but this provides terrific experience for the younger players . ’ |
| 30 | I mean that they have what they call ‘ access ’ to the water , which means to the docks which means to the port which means to the open sea which means to the world . |