Example sentences of "[vb past] around the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | In October 1987 , when share prices crashed around the world , Hong Kong disgraced itself by closing for four days to protect local speculators . |
| 2 | Between 1577 and 1580 he sailed around the world — the first Englishman to carry out the feat originally achieved by the survivors of Magellan 's voyage 60 years earlier — plundering Spanish ships and towns of their gold and silver as he did so . |
| 3 | She sailed around the world between 1872 and 1876 , under the scientific direction of Charles Wyville Thomson , and was equipped with a chemical laboratory and many other up-to-date scientific facilities . |
| 4 | PRESIDENT-elect Bill Clinton 's pledge to change America echoed around the world last night . |
| 5 | By late 1987 the situation was again serious , this time attributed to the spectacular stock-market crash which echoed around the world . |
| 6 | Gordon Wilson , whose words of forgiveness to the terrorists who killed his daughter Marie echoed around the world , was there . |
| 7 | I went around the world , and I did n't fall off . |
| 8 | They went around the world with backpacks and no money , and they left home and lived together without getting married , and many of them became superstars when they were still only in their teens . |
| 9 | They went around the world sponging on friends . |
| 10 | I did that and now because of the corrupt politics of an organisation hated and disrespected around the world they 're challenging my rights to be called world champion . |
| 11 | One day he found himself in charge of the biggest train set in Never Never Land , and so he made some jolly exciting movies about friendly aliens , man-eating sharks , and an archaeologist who zoomed around the world thrashing Nazis . |
| 12 | It is just the latest of many ignorant assaults that are damaging a national asset envied around the world . |
| 13 | As Kylie jetted around the world from one assignment to the next , Dannii took time out from her own hectic schedule to be with her . |