Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [prep] the world " in BNC.

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1 Rubbish Fadeev clung to the world championship lead despite falling on a tripe loop in yesterday 's original programme .
2 Tension between Iraq and Kuwait came to the world 's attention in mid-July when Saddam Hussein launched a fierce attack on the policy of those Gulf states , principally Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) , whose over-production of oil he blamed for a corresponding slump in world oil prices .
3 Gordon Wilson , whose words of forgiveness to the terrorists who killed his daughter Marie echoed around the world , was there .
4 Uttley , Britain 's over-40 Ergo champion ( the Ergo is a form of torture disguised as a rowing machine and beloved of masochists everywhere ) , was in the States to compete in the World Championships .
5 Khan , who skippered Pakistan to triumph in the World Cup final against England earlier this year , said : ‘ I retire with the knowledge that I have no ambition left in the game . ’
6 ‘ Then , by the same token , ’ said the earl , ‘ you are saying that the man who finished the work was one who did have cause to want Aldhelm removed from the world , before he ever reached the abbey gatehouse .
7 Father , You know the power and influence that the leaders of the United States carry in the world .
8 Pierre Naville , for instance , enthused that we should get pleasure from the streets of the city in which kiosks , autos , and lights were in a sense already representations , and Breton spoke of the world as ‘ automatic writing ’ ( Krauss 1985b , p. 99 ) .
9 Thus Naville enthused that we should get pleasure from the streets of the city in which kiosks , autos , and lights were in a sense already representations , and Breton spoke of the world itself as ‘ automatic writing ’ .
10 When Defoe wrote about the world outside Europe for an early eighteenth-century audience , he could take a much more realistic approach .
11 As Kylie jetted around the world from one assignment to the next , Dannii took time out from her own hectic schedule to be with her .
12 last night between England qualify for the World Cup ?
13 He knew this not just because Uncle Titch said he had — you could n't believe anything a grown-up told you , and Uncle Titch belonged to the world of grown-ups even if he was n't — but because of the tricks he could do .
14 ‘ I 'll miss the involvement but it 's too important for England to qualify for the World Cup finals to take any chances . ’
15 Robins skipper Mitch Shirra and team mate Jimmy Nilsen compete for the world speedway crown in Poland tomorrow .
16 To everyone in Virgin who had met him , it was only a matter of time before George O'Dowd proved to the world at large what he already believed , they suspected , and a not inconsiderable advance was banking on — the fact that he was a star .
17 James Clavell returns to the world of the shoguns in Gaijin , another massive ( 1,019 pages ) contribution to his fictional portrait of Asia .
18 Paul Stephens says it was no more than New Zealand 's third string side with the best 30 on tour ( though Turner and Cooper played against the World XV and Seymour and Rush were picked to tour South Africa ) .
19 DAMON Hill aims for a hat-trick of victories in today 's Italian Grand Prix at Monza — and keep Williams team-mate Alain Prost waiting for the world championship crown .
20 The other ‘ new boys ’ are of a much latter epoch and include the Pitts S-1S that the late Neil Williams flew during the World Aerobatic Championships outside Moscow in what was then the USSR .
21 Elinor [ sic ] Roosevelt had just died and I said how beautiful I thought the message Adlai Stevenson gave to the world .
22 The very fact that two of the Big Six European companies were even considering merging indicates the growing emphasis on scale in the car industry , and highlights the difficulties that a company such as Rover faces in the world market .
23 This SL comes with the world 's first five-speed automatic gearbox but fails to live up to its high price and long waiting list
24 Daytime UK 's Anne Stirk goes around the world in search of cakes to bring a festive touch to your teatime table
25 Jarvis wandered about the world as young people do , but instead of driving a van to India or observing political upheaval in Central America or getting into trouble in Africa he went to look at metro systems .
26 On 15 September 1984 Charles was once again by Diana 's side at St Mary 's Hospital when Prince Harry came into the world .
27 Jesus had had many interviews with people , we 've looked at some of them over these past few weeks , the time when he met with Nicademus , the religious leader , the time he went out of his way to meet with a woman of Semaria in her dyer need , the other occasion that we looked at er a week or so back when he called Anzakias from that tree of which he was hiding , last week his judge , pilot , but of all those interviews and as many others that we have n't looked at this surely must be one of the strangest as Jesus himself is in the process of dying and as he is dying he is confronted with another person who has a need , but Jesus your need is as greatest as any body elses , your pain , your suffering , your physical suffering was every bit of great as those around you , why be bothered with others is n't that so often our story , when we are in need we can forget all about other people , it does n't matter there need , its poor me , what about me , what about my need , what about my requirements , what about my suffering , but we see here how Jesus apart from any thing else deals with his own suffering , he deals with it by ministering to the needs of other people , and this surely then must be one of the most strange and one of the most interviews that our lord ever had when he was here on earth , with this dying thief , but he was more than a thief he was a er , he was a re a rebel , he was a terrorist or a freedom fighter depending on which way you wanted to look at it and he was dying for his crimes and he was n't alone because there there was this man we 've been talking about , there was Jesus and there was another one , another criminal on the other side and we find that this is all in keeping with what god had promised , all there in , in line with his prophecy way back in Iziah chapter fifty three , it tells us that he was numbered with the transgressors , that he died with sinful men with , with law breakers and here it is its happening right in front of the , the very eyes of the Jewish leaders and the jewish authorities our lords intention in coming into the world was to save men and women , to seek out and to save sinners , remember thirty odd years previous to this event the word had come , for Mary his mother , to Joseph , we will call his name Jesus because he will save his people from their sins and later on writing to Timothy the apostle Paul in the first chapter of the first book in verse fifteen he says it is a trust worthy statement deserving full acceptance that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners , this was his purpose , this was his reason for coming into the world , not to be a good man , not to be a , a great leader , not to give us some model that we can , you know , that we can plan our life out and try and live up to his standards , he says I 've come to give my life as a ransom , I have come to save and to seek that which was lost and here in this incident as he himself is dying and is in physical pain and torment he is carrying out this very work , of seeking out and saving of those who will turn to him , those who will put their trust in him , he is saving the lost , and we see in a wonderful how great the compassion of Jesus was and is , in reaching out and rescuing those who are lost , here we see our lord suffering the most terrible agony and yet in the midst of his own sorrow and pain and , and torment he thinks of this dying thief and extends his grace and mercy to him .
28 He says it 's a trustworthy statement deserving full acceptance that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners , among whom I am foremost of all !
29 Then , with a last look at the empty corner , Conradin returned to the world that he hated .
30 Where Amanda discovered in the world divine intent , benevolent order and rigorous justice , her father had seen only chaos , hazard and malice .
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