Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | It meets , and even surpasses , all the criteria laid down by the World Cup committee after the inaugural event in 1987 ; that there should be healthy commercial environment , that the event should be well supported and that it should take place in only one country . |
| 2 | He decided that he was never likely to do even as well as they and that he had better look for another career , which eventually he found successfully in the world of travel . |
| 3 | They peered down on the world like two eyes , one half-closed . |
| 4 | Spiritual congress of this kind is , in fact , found all over the world and throughout history — as the biographies of famous Christian and other mystics confirm and occurs more often than is generally supposed in our own contemporary Western world . |
| 5 | Singer was an enthusiastic supporter of the concept of the United Synagogue ; he moved easily within the world of wealth with which the New West End was associated , enjoyed the friendship of the Rothschild family , and acquired an unrivalled reputation as a preacher of great power and eloquence . |
| 6 | She rose up in the world without lifting a finger when she married into the gentry and I daresay she let him feel the difference been them . |
| 7 | When English merchants moved out into the world beyond Europe , it was natural enough that the Spice Islands became their ultimate objective . |
| 8 | 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 trustworthy statement , deserving full acceptance that Christ Jesus came in to the world to save sinners . |
| 9 | Instead , he sailed alone round the world . |
| 10 | The adventure takes place in our world ( Earth , that is ) and Luigi can find himself transported all over the world . |
| 11 | The carriageway was empty and sealed off from the world by chipped grey railings down the centre and either side . |
| 12 | I was before I came up in the world , true , but lower-middle-class , not working-class . |
| 13 | I think it 's time you and I came back into the world . |
| 14 | When I came back to the world of RAM and ROM , my subconscious had apparently been connecting up some loose neurons , and everything fell into place . |
| 15 | The drama to be told was an epic of cosmic dimensions and significance , played out on the world stage . |
| 16 | You see it played out round the world . |
| 17 | They came out of the world writing pop songs , at the very end . |
| 18 | He came out into the world again . |
| 19 | On that day , various poptastic things happened all over the world , all to convince you that AIDS is a terrible thing , that safe sex does n't mean no sex and that we must all love one another and usher in a new era of positivity etc etc . |
| 20 | It was the highest of five bids opened yesterday by the world champion , Garry Kasparov , and his British challenger , Nigel Short . |
| 21 | He boxed magnificently in the world senior championships in Finland , and was beating a top Cuban until things went disastrously wrong in the last round . |
| 22 | He boxed magnificently in the world senior championships in Finland , and was beating a top Cuban until things went disastrously wrong in the last round . |
| 23 | A number of hitherto-unknown species have been discovered in the Vu Quang nature reserve in western Vietnam during a survey organized jointly by the World Wide Fund for Nature and the Vietnamese Forestry Ministry . |
| 24 | GUIDING the Eagles in 1992 will be new coach Clarence Culpepper of Maryland , replacing Jim Perkins , who stepped down following the World Cup . |
| 25 | Geoffrey Wilkinson 's deputy was Peter Bardon who joined the RAF soon after the Second World War and served all over the world , particularly in the Far East . |
| 26 | The Glosters served all over the world and we sample life in India during the 1930s . |
| 27 | The great Dust Bowl which Maggie has seen only from the air , was once the long flank , the turning of the armpit of a dragon greater than Fenna , the great dragon laid out across the world its tail cooled by the oceans of the Antarctic and its breath , no longer fire , turned to ice around its head in the most northerly places of the globe . |
| 28 | Now , as the light leached back into the world , he saw the door open at the head of the steps and a figure appear . |
| 29 | OLYMPIC champion and top seed Jan-Ove Waldner tumbled out of the World Championship s in Gothenburg when easily beaten by Jean-Michel Saive . |
| 30 | It harked back to the world of the fourth- and fifth-century Christian emperors ; at the same time it signalled a new world of money-using economic agents including peasants and small-scale traders . |