Example sentences of "had gone bankrupt " in BNC.

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1 Unfortunately , by 1846 they had gone bankrupt .
2 STRIKER David Hirst is back in business after believing his season had gone bankrupt .
3 Says Catherine ‘ My flatmates and I were expecting the return of our £780 deposit when we were told the agency had gone bankrupt .
4 The king ensured that vital funds continued to flow , and was in any case disposed to make concessions on the question of cartels because many of the monopolistic companies had gone bankrupt and were useless to him .
5 He bought a small printing firm that had gone bankrupt , and because of contacts in the Labour Party and all kinds of left-wing political groups , soon had a bread-and-butter basis of pamphlets , brochures , tracts , leaflets , and then a couple of small newspapers .
6 He had bought too many farms and had gone bankrupt in the agricultural depression at the beginning of this century .
7 Fumio Abe resigned as secretary-general of the Miyazawa LDP faction on Dec. 12 , amid allegations that he had received 100,000,000 yen ( about US$780,000 ) in undeclared political donations from the Kyowa Corporation , a steel frame manufacturer which had gone bankrupt in November 1990 , and several of whose executives were later charged with fraud .
8 He was charged with having received 80,000,000 yen ( about US$630,000 ) in bribes from Kyowa , a steel frame manufacturer which had gone bankrupt in November 1990 , in return for providing confidential information to the firm concerning development projects on Hokkaido .
9 Last year an East India company in the tea trade had gone bankrupt , and the court found it had actually been insolvent for a quarter of a century — which had come as a great surprise even to the directors .
10 My father had gone bankrupt , and my mother was nearly penniless , but as a relative of Robert Barclay , I got a good bursary .
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