Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ While engaged in watching the movements of the several species of the great family of Procellaridae , which at one time often and often surrounded the ships that conveyed me round the world , a bright speck would appear on the distant horizon , and , gradually approaching nearer and nearer , at length assumed the form of the White-headed petrel , whose wing-powers far exceed those of any of its congeners ; at one moment it would be rising high in the air , at the next sweeping comet-like through the flocks flying around ; never , however , approaching the ship sufficiently near for a successful shot , and it was equally wary in avoiding the boat with which I was frequently favoured for the purpose of securing examples of other species ; but , to make use of a familiar adage , the most knowing are taken in at last ’ ’ ; one beautiful morning , the 20th of Feb. 1839 , during my passage from Hobart Town to Sydney , when the sea was perfectly calm and of a glassy smoothness , this wanderer of the ocean came in sight and approached within three hundred yards of the vessel ; anxious to attract him still closer , so as to bring him within range , I thought of the following stratagem : — a corked bottle , attached to a long line , was thrown overboard and allowed to drift to the distance of forty or fifty yards , and kept there until the bird favoured us with another visit , while flying around in immense circles ; at length his keen eye caught sight of the neck of the bottle ( to which a bobbing motion was communicated by sudden jerks of the string ) , and he at once proceeded to examine more closely what it was that had arrested his attention ; during this momentary pause the trigger was pulled , the boat lowered , and the bird was soon in my possession . ’ |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the Australian is still likely to preside over the punishment of the opponent who beat him in the World Open final . |
| 3 | Spice drew us round the world , showed us it was round , and led us to confront ourselves again . |
| 4 | He is still smarting from a put-down in the magazine City Limits which condemned his Around the World in Eighty Days as an exercise in ‘ male back-slapping imperialism ’ . |
| 5 | He had failed to recover from the structural hip injury which troubled him throughout the World Cup and the date of his return could not be forecast . |
| 6 | The Mail senior staff who stuck with her in Hong Kong and whisked her round the world to safe houses ca n't talk ; Pamella ca n't talk ; her lawyer Tim Taylor ca n't talk . |
| 7 | The merger would have resulted in by far Britain 's largest food company and placed it among the world league of major food groups , capitalised at around £5bn . |
| 8 | I brought them into the world . |
| 9 | you see , and he was , he , he probably brought me into the world , you see but , er you see , and Mrs erm , you see , she was married to Doctor and he used to come up to see my father and we had a different door then door being that 's got a yale lock on now but he he 'd say , hello Frank , you know always so you got , oh he was so nice and it was such a shame that he died |
| 10 | The phrase ‘ A Dave McCullouch band ’ was often used to describe those whose musical wanderings took them into the world of personal art ethics and therefore obscurity . ) |
| 11 | brought him into the world ( Luke 1:34–35 ) ; |
| 12 | Together they offered it to the world 's women . |
| 13 | Now extremely overweight and looking older than his sixty-five years , Brando spurns most film offers , although he appeared in The Freshman in 1989 and promptly denounced it to the world before it was even in the can . |
| 14 | As Terry Butcher admitted afterwards , Peter Shilton 's goalkeeping ‘ kept us in the World Cup ’ . |
| 15 | For both , the archetype is the solo practitioner , disparaged by that label ‘ horse and buggy doctor ’ , who , in the myth , brought us into the world , smoothed our fevered brows , and eased by magic potions the anguish of illness . |
| 16 | Ponomarev then announced it to the world at an International Conference on Nuclear Physics in Vancouver during August 1977 . |
| 17 | Whatever happened to the case of the Sevso silver , the Roman hoard valued conservatively at £40 million , blocked in a New York court since February 1990 when Sotheby 's proudly announced it to the world , only to have the Lebanon and Yugoslavia , and later Hungary , claim that it had been removed illegally from their countries ? |
| 18 | He introduced me to the world . |
| 19 | In recognition of his enormous contribution to world tennis , fellow ITF members presented him during the World Champions Dinner in the elegant Pavilion Gabriel in Paris , during the French Open , with a specially commissioned bust , complete with that pugnacious chin which perfectly reflects the determined response he has always presented to any potentially damaging challenge . |
| 20 | Kylie , based in the opulent comfort of London 's St James 's Club , favourite hunt of Hollywood superstars like Clint Eastwood , was everywhere it seemed that summer — and the record sales reflected it around the world . |
| 21 | I also had it in the World War . |
| 22 | why consumers pay er in the European Community , it 's because we paying them two or three times more for our food than we would do if we purchased it on the world market erm . |