Example sentences of "[vb past] to the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daisy came to the World Championships with me in Sweden last year and came fourteenth in the under fifteen year old class — a good result for her first competition . |
| 2 | Tension between Iraq and Kuwait came to the world 's attention in mid-July when Saddam Hussein launched a fierce attack on the policy of those Gulf states , principally Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) , whose over-production of oil he blamed for a corresponding slump in world oil prices . |
| 3 | Before Bob Mould happened to the world of American rock'n'roll there were two nations . |
| 4 | Tell me first , what happened to the world when I was in prison . |
| 5 | It was the nature of the place , he thought , perched up there on its remote peak , its back turned to the world , all the more obsessed with its petty intrigues and scandals because it knew them to be of no interest whatever to anyone else . |
| 6 | He studied medicine for two years but the sight of blood made him sick so , always a lover of shopping , he defected to the world of retail . |
| 7 | Then , with a last look at the empty corner , Conradin returned to the world that he hated . |
| 8 | Now it was the English helmet which belonged to the world of the news reel . |
| 9 | Despite the size of the stables and the fact that he belonged to the world of flat-racing where appearances count for something , Short had made no compromises . |
| 10 | Indeed , the Teds had appeared on the streets before postwar meat-rationing had been abandoned in Britain — which might suggest that they belonged to the world of postwar austerity , rather than ‘ affluence ’ . |
| 11 | He knew this not just because Uncle Titch said he had — you could n't believe anything a grown-up told you , and Uncle Titch belonged to the world of grown-ups even if he was n't — but because of the tricks he could do . |
| 12 | From the helm he waved to the world skimming past , to a fisherman in a row boat with a long-legged dog sniffing the air from the prow ; to a capsized windsurfer , and three children running on a strip of sand . |
| 13 | He made a few gamey remarks to his first Hollywood leading lady , Olivia de Havilland , and she announced to the world that he was ‘ a coarse-grained man with a coarse-grained charm and a talent not completely developed ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ I told the IFA that if we got to the World Cup finals and they wanted me to stay on I would and if we did not qualify I would stand down , ’ says Bingham . |
| 15 | Rubbish Fadeev clung to the world championship lead despite falling on a tripe loop in yesterday 's original programme . |
| 16 | Athelstan dosed his eyes , praying from whatever psalm he could remember to fend off the awful terrors which clung to the world of men . |
| 17 | Although only eight of the 23 British Columbia players who went to the World Cup were on hand for the two games it was enough to see the host province safely through to championship no.23 by virtue of wins over Alberta — and that was a close call indeed — and NEWFOUNDLAND . |
| 18 | ‘ When you fall behind , you are punished by life , ’ was the remark to his host , relayed to the world by Gennady Gerasimov , the Soviet spokesman . |
| 19 | Many would have claimed that it served none , that it was but the result of the Fall and of sin , and that it brought only harm and hurt to the world . |
| 20 | We sat down to breakfast in the garden , and listened to the World Service news . |
| 21 | I was only half awake when I listened to the World Service . |
| 22 | To everyone in Virgin who had met him , it was only a matter of time before George O'Dowd proved to the world at large what he already believed , they suspected , and a not inconsiderable advance was banking on — the fact that he was a star . |
| 23 | She was also discovering that there was more to Sean O'Farrell than the frivolous charm which he presented to the world . |
| 24 | Her subsequent unhappy reaction caused him to regret that he had inadvertently damaged her self-esteem by destroying part of her image of self which she presented to the world . |
| 25 | Deep down , well hidden beneath the façade of arrogance and ice that he presented to the world , a warm , caring heart beat within Adam Burns . |
| 26 | He preached to the World Scout Jamboree and was blamed by the Daily Telegraph for reading his sermon to a multitude of boys and that the notes were too visible when they were blown about by the wind . |
| 27 | ( In its drive to attract foreign capital , Zimbabwe had in September 1989 acceded to the World Bank-backed Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency convention . ) |
| 28 | The Second Period was the time during which was laid down the evidence the nature of which has been revealed by men such as Charles Darwin and others , who gave to the world an understanding of the way in which evolution has operated through thousands of millions of years . |
| 29 | Elinor [ sic ] Roosevelt had just died and I said how beautiful I thought the message Adlai Stevenson gave to the world . |
| 30 | Was Sony that gave to the world transistor radios … |