The whole world knew it was coming.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing on BP Oil Spill

The excessive appetite for pigeons that had overcome her suddenly, and the way she had devoured them, like an animal she was doomed, for sure, and everyone knew it, everyone in Bugues, the village, the whole world knew it.

NEWYORKER: The Stolen Pigeons

From the moment Lesley Griffiths told the Health Committee on October 20th that she was prepared to see whole boards go (she meant the management boards who run the health boards) she knew she was inviting the whole world to look if, come the last day of March, she blinks and pays up.

BBC: In the red, in the firing line

As consulting chef to Windows on the World, I knew we had a winner in White Clam Risotto with Whole-Poached Lobster in Green Sauce, with its title's promise of festive and unusual flavors.

WSJ: The Rules of Recipe Attraction