Example sentences of "[v-ing] around the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rapid changes in the market place put a great strain on top management to ensure a company is keeping pace and is sufficiently aware of what is happening around the world . |
| 2 | They were under no illusions that they could do a better job from Detroit , but they had become increasingly concerned that they were getting out of touch with what was happening around the world , and that the tail was beginning to wag the dog . |
| 3 | Saga travellers are now jetting around the world , but in spite of the company 's undoubted success , as a 1989 report demonstrated there is little evidence that the British travel trade as a whole has fully understood the importance and increased spending power of the older and more prosperous customer . |
| 4 | Many people imagine that it is a glamorous life , jetting around the world for the big athletics meetings and receiving much media attention . |
| 5 | Malekith begins his great period of wandering around the world in search of magical artefacts of elder times . |
| 6 | One good reason , if you need one , for not going around the world . |
| 7 | RACING AROUND THE WORLD |
| 8 | Social embarrassment , duly fictionalised , is an odd commodity to export , and it does not figure in official balance-of-payments figures ; but it has been selling around the world since Fielding 's Tom Jones and Scott 's Waverley , not to mention Wodehouse 's Bertie Wooster . |
| 9 | Travel on two or four legs is the most ancient way of getting around the world . |
| 10 | ‘ We 've become a travelling circus ’ , said David Campese , ‘ moving around the world without taking a real break . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ At the moment she enjoys flying around the world after me and having a child would make that more difficult . |
| 12 | It 's a rare wife indeed whose genuine reaction to betrayal is fond indulgence ( ‘ Oh , Charles , you 're such an adolescent skirt-chaser ’ ) , dignified disinterest ( ‘ Where you choose to put your thingie while zooming around the world on so-called business is , quite frankly , no concern of mine ’ ) or outward serenity , as displayed by Jane Ashdown during the furore over Paddy 's affair with his secretary . |
| 13 | And it was Charles who went on , ‘ Do n't you think you 've done enough traipsing around the world ? |
| 14 | After years traipsing around the world they 'll now practise in Milton Keynes for their return to international competition . |
| 15 | It was while travelling around the world for the UN that she first became impressed with the simple forms of cosmetics made from natural ingredients used by remote communities . |
| 16 | It was while travelling around the world that the seeds of her future calling were first sown . |
| 17 | Even though he 's been travelling around the world , he 's kept up with what 's going on back home . |
| 18 | Richard is at Liverpool University reading geography , while Tim , a former head boy at Richmond School , got his geography degree at Liverpool last summer and is now travelling around the world . |
| 19 | Born in Canada , but now spending most of his time charging around the world getting into trouble , Watson is a young radical determined to stop animals such as whales and seals being hunted to extinction . |
| 20 | BUBBLING AROUND THE WORLD |
| 21 | The religions which are burgeoning around the world are the ones taking positive , proactive stances . |
| 22 | ‘ I once had ideas of sailing around the world , doing a Sir Francis Chichester , you know , but work got in the way , and I had to lower my sights . ’ |
| 23 | out on their own are the crew of Dodo 's Delight … the boat from Oxfordshire that 's sailing around the world … the wrong way against the winds and currents … the crew of old boys from Kingham school have landed in Rio next stop is the Falklands where they plan to be ashore for Christmas Day … |
| 24 | There are plenty of Americans like me , bumming around the world because our country has no jobs for us . ’ |
| 25 | Upon marrying Lovebird Johnston , Juan moved to the outskirts of Kingstown , St Vincent and finally found work packing bananas for shipping around the world . |
| 26 | Millions will be watching around the world and the word at the moment , Oxford are favourites . |
| 27 | Now 26 , she spent many years after college hitchhiking around the world , drifting through the punk scene in San Francisco to demonstrations in Dallas , squats in Amsterdam and the women 's peace camp in Cosmo , Italy , before a British producer recognised her itinerant musical talent and signed her up with the bestselling Texas Campfire Tapes LP . |
| 28 | Since the Trust was founded Hillary has spent much of his life touring around the world raising money , always with the same enthusiasm that once took him to the top of Everest . |
| 29 | Mr Ramsay said sorting out Mr Bond 's finances would take a team of accountants at least a year , with the investigation stretching around the world . |