Example sentences of "world in [pron] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found it ‘ intolerable ’ to think of the toys falling into the hands of other children — ‘ The idea of a crowd of embryo right wee fellas ’ ' getting hold of them and Bolshevising and applying to their own base purposes that well-ordered world in which we spent so many happy hours ’ . |
| 2 | But I think it is reasonable as well as constructive to allude to the possibility that the human spirit is indeed evolving , that we are gradually ‘ widening the circle of compassion ’ , moving away from the narrower , more self-interested , more aggressive forms of social organisation to embrace the concept of one world in which we do indeed see ourselves as members of one human family . |
| 3 | It should not be imagined , however , that the newborn Earth remotely resembled the world in which we live today . |
| 4 | The real world in which we live unfortunately provides us with several inevitable distortions . |
| 5 | Innocent that she was , for all the sophistication conferred on her by the great world in which she had once lived , she readily agreed to Rose 's suggestion , and when they had parted Rose took care to remind her of her promise . |
| 6 | Larsen , the protagonist of Juan Carlos Onetti 's The Shipyard , for example , caricatures the thrusting , social-climbing heroes of nineteenth-century fiction by assuming charge of a shipyard and paying court to the owner 's daughter , but the world in which he operates grotesquely parodies the industrial age 's spirit of optimism and progress , for the owner is bankrupt , his daughter is mad , the decaying yard is no longer operational and the two remaining employees spend their time reading out-of-date files . |
| 7 | Behind all of this lies the sportsman 's desire to avoid entering the world of common man , a world in which he clocks in and out and collects his wage packet , a world that seems grey , though he has never known it , a world in which he is not stretched , a world that does not bring such pain or pleasure . |