Example sentences of "has [verb] the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | JAMES WATTANA , 19 , from Thailand , has broken the world table clearance record with a time of 3min 45sec in Brussels . |
| 2 | Sally Gunnell has broken the world record to win gold in the women 's four hundred meter hurdles final in Stuttgart . |
| 3 | Surrounded by the toys and the gadgets of his calling — tape recorders , mini television sets , world-band radios — he is the quintessential Japanese combination that has conquered the world : a tinkerer turned businessman . |
| 4 | The Cotswold-stone shop sells bears vintage ( £2,500 ) and everyday ( £10 ) , and owner Ian Pout has trawled the world for the top teddies . |
| 5 | Although he has travelled the world , Edinburgh and the family memories it evokes , are still profoundly important to Graeme Souness . |
| 6 | George wanted to obtain shapes that were visually stimulating in the sky and has been so successful that , since his start in Hawaii , he has travelled the world , influencing many other like-minded free spirits . |
| 7 | Bradley who has travelled the world with his accordion sets the pace in more than 36 Irish tunes including Village Where I Went to School and The Galway Shawl . |
| 8 | Mrs Ashton used to sing with the London-based Salvation Army Songsters and has travelled the world with them , says Mr MacConachie . |
| 9 | A teenager who 's aiming to become the next Paul Daniels has joined the world 's most exclusive group of magicians . |
| 10 | In themselves they 're historic , but it was Ponting 's expertise as a stills cameraman that has given the world a stunning pictorial account of a legendary expedition . |
| 11 | In books and interviews he has reminded the world that the French Surrealist poet Aragon , having praised Kundera 's excellent novel The Joke in 1968 , and having fulminated against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia — his legs would ‘ refuse ’ to take him to Russia any more — made it to Moscow four years later ; and that another French poet , Eluard , abandoned his Prague friend , the Surrealist Kalandra , to the executioner . |
| 12 | The town has caught the world 's attention , but the horrors are further reaching . |
| 13 | A House of Commons report has blamed the World Bank for contributing to rainforest destruction . |
| 14 | Since then , he has won the world singles three times outdoors and three times indoors , four Commonwealth gold medals , a Commonwealth fours gold , a world indoor triples gold , six world indoor pairs golds and 26 national titles , the singles six times on grass and nine times on carpet . |
| 15 | Hill , who impressed the team with his speed in a recent test session at Estoril , has agreed a one-year contract with a two-year option to partner Prost , who has won the world championship three times . |
| 16 | At last he has won the World Formula One title — and we 're offering you this marvellous memento of his triumph . |
| 17 | His face was old and young , sardonic and knowing , amused and handsome ; the face of a man who has seen the world 's wickedness and knows how to match it with his own . |
| 18 | For the last twenty three years Sharon Mace has seen the world from a disabled trolley . |
| 19 | Further along the Pacific coast is Los Angeles , which has dazzled the world as supreme creator of the Hollywood legend , immortalising glamour and feeding the minds of twentieth century filmgoers . |
| 20 | The pollution-free air has made the World Health Authority recommend the Costa Blanca as one of the most healthy places to live . |
| 21 | Today technology has made the world very small . |
| 22 | On her visit Diana took France by storm and she has shown the world how happy she is carrying out official engagements on her own — in contrast to the Korean trip which she shared with her husband and which exposed their coldness towards each other when they spent most days unsmiling and glum . |
| 23 | Now Linford has shown the world that ‘ clean ’ athletes can win . |
| 24 | Since earliest times , mankind has classified the world into four elements — earth , air , fire and water . |
| 25 | The new £400 000 company has bought the world rights to the system from Dykins . |
| 26 | This is despite the fact that its acreage of farmland is about the same as that of the United States , a nation that has become the world 's greatest grain exporter . |
| 27 | It has become the world 's most popular passenger car diesel since it was introduced just over 10 years ago . |
| 28 | And in a country whose language has become the world 's lingua franca its literary culture is its culture . |
| 29 | Nigeria has become the world 's fifth largest oil exporter . |
| 30 | Trite though it may sound , the Pacific , unlike its sister seas , is an ocean of many worlds indeed — and at the same time by being so has become the world ocean , as dominant and all-encompassing as its immensity suggests it has to be . |