Example sentences of "take [adv prt] the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | You feel you are standing up straight for the first time in your life ; you can do anything while this feeling lasts , you can take on the world . |
| 2 | HEARTS ' John Robertson yesterday spoke up for all the members of Scotland 's impromptu squad to face Germany when he railed against any suggestion that the side who will tonight take on the world champions at Ibrox is made up of ‘ second class citizens ’ . |
| 3 | PRESIDENT-elect Bill Clinton kept a careful distance from world problems yesterday as he worked with aides to plan the administration that will take over the world 's most powerful country when he takes the oath of office on January 20 . |
| 4 | Lord King , the BA Chairman , talked of the need to create an airline which was ‘ capable of taking on the world ’ in an increasingly ‘ global market place ’ ( refer to Table 2.2 ) . |
| 5 | Taking on the world |
| 6 | The Irish are seeing something of a cricketing revival … it 's the fastest growing sport in their home country , and they feel confident about taking on the World 's best . |
| 7 | Yes , the implications are very heavy , I had not realised what you 'd just said , and we should refer that to Amanda and indeed take all take it on board , otherwise we 'll be taking on the world . |
| 8 | Today I took on the world No 1 , and that 's not easy , and beat him from the back of the court . |
| 9 | Put Kurt Cobain , Dave Grohl and Chris Novoselic on a stage or in a rehearsal space or in a studio and they can still wreak magic , the three losers who took on the world and won . |
| 10 | The stimulus which carried Boycott and Steele along might be of help to others who took on the world from modest beginnings . |
| 11 | This led , through X The Unknown ( 1957 ) , which parodies the complacency of the authorities towards the radiation threat and Quatermass 2 ( 1957 ) , in which the visiting monsters come much closer to taking over the world , to the cycle of horror films that started with The Curse of Frankenstein ( 1956 ) , moving away from immediate contemporary concerns towards mythological narratives that touched some of the same fears and terrors . |
| 12 | To have taken on the world in that state would have been political suicide . |
| 13 | EVENTS / Conkering heroes take on the world |
| 14 | Lola gets up to no good with her handsome boyfriend , but it 's a basic boy meets girl story of how the pair defiantly take on the world . |
| 15 | He had been ready to defy the conventions and take on the world — and win ! he thought . |
| 16 | Take on the world and never cry craven , he 'd said . |
| 17 | The first year you 're running on adrenalin and you 're going to take on the world . |
| 18 | Dragging himself through the daily routine which gets him into his beige-toned synthetic fibres and out of his neo-neo house , he roars off in his Jag ( number plate , VIC 100 ) , fag in mouth , Carly Simon on cassette , ready to take on the world . |
| 19 | In any case , 100 Welsh players having the opportunity to take on the world champions and learn from them will do a lot of good for Welsh rugby . ’ |
| 20 | Schladming , just to the east , which tried to take on the World Cup commitment , has suffered similarly . |
| 21 | How Jon Solly plans to take on the world |
| 22 | It is even possible to take on the world . |
| 23 | Perfectly groomed from head to toe and with all that assurance , she was ready to take on the world , Arlene thought with satisfaction , for she looked on Paula as her very own creation . |
| 24 | The federal project in Europe would in some respects have enlarged Westminster 's competence , because of the capacity it accorded Europe 's national governments to take on the world 's financial markets and thus broaden the taxing , spending and borrowing options that have been , up until now , in the shadow of highly conservative directors of international capital flows . |
| 25 | No longer does Gascoigne want to take on the world single-handed , and his reckless nature has been replaced by a more thoughtful approach . |
| 26 | Now with the release of her new album , ‘ Shepherd Moons ’ she prepares to take on the world again , with music of an almost other-wordly beauty . |
| 27 | She felt refreshed and renewed , filled with such a healthy glow of well-being that she was ready to take on the world ; and Johnny Latimer with it . |
| 28 | Pat Kinch is here at RAF Fairford to take on the world . |
| 29 | A carriage driver and his horses are on their way to America to take on the World 's best in the sport . |
| 30 | This hatred and distrust was fuelled when Arthur Kitson of Kitson Empire Lighting Company in Stamford introduced him to the famous anti-Semitic forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion , which claimed that the Jews were about to take over the world ( an example of modern mythologising for political purposes ) . |