Example sentences of "[to-vb] around the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Francis Drake was the first Englishman to sail around the world . |
| 2 | A boat called Dodo 's Delight sailed out of Falmouth harbour this week … on board a crew of old boys from Kingham Hill School in Oxfordshire … they 're off to make history as the first school group to sail around the world … they 'll be gone for twenty months … so we 're waving them goodbye in our Friday Feature |
| 3 | A one time marine and lifelong sailor Bob Shepton has always wanted to sail around the world … for three years he 's been planning and preparing for this voyage … |
| 4 | Cape Horn has always been a challenge and something he wanted to do … he says the aim is to be the first school group to sail around the world … the other aspect is the whole challenge of the voyage |
| 5 | The US Masters champion said : ‘ To be the best in the world you 've got to play around the world , but I do n't expect to see Americans playing over here . |
| 6 | Italian pilot Mario Mazzucchelli is planning an attempt to fly around the world nonstop , passing over both Poles , and doing it solo . |
| 7 | You would have to fly around the world four hundred million times to add one second to your life ; but your life would be reduced by more than that by all those airline meals . |
| 8 | Rasa ( b ) is the name of a mythical river personified as a Goddess and said to flow around the world . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's all very exciting for me at the moment , here I am about to go around the world for the first time , seeing cities like New York , which I have always dreamed of seeing . |
| 10 | As interest rates continue to fall around the world , bonds could well prove to be the investment opportunity of the 1990s . |
| 11 | When 26-year-old Tim Haller , from Horncastle , Lincs , bought a double-decker bus in 1988 , his great ambition was to travel around the world in it . |
| 12 | To travel around the world |
| 13 | Welcome back : Thousands of teenagers will be packing their rucksacks to travel around the world this summer , and get away from the stress of exams . |