Example sentences of "wound up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it lasted , the Auxiliary did good work , but after the President 's death it declined and eventually was wound up during the Glasgow Congress in 1920 . |
| 2 | Section 221 provides that an unregistered company may be wound up under the Act . |
| 3 | Less than cheery playwright Mike Leigh 's vicious attack on the nouveau riche starred his wife Alison Steadman ( for a change — not ! ) as dinner-hostess Beverley , wound up to the point of implosion with niceties , niggles and appearances . |
| 4 | But it was now three o'clock in the morning and the debate was quickly wound up with the money being voted for the site and foundations . |
| 5 | and my comment was that before getting too sort of wound up about the way we get public |
| 6 | The locals are getting wound up about the game . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't understand why you should get so wound up about the prospect of making love now , when before you were … offhand about it . ’ |
| 8 | Andy Payton and Stuart Slater showed , for example , that they may now have come to terms with the tribal ritual that is entitled to pass their understanding until time and circumstances dictate that they become as wound up as the rest . |
| 9 | Kate was down in the pit lane for the Friday qualifying session , her nerves nearly as wound up as the drivers ' , knowing that Ace was waiting to live up to his name with the fastest lap . |
| 10 | For in the topsy turvy pecking order which is the current Russian economy , the middle class academics , civil servants and doctors have wound up at the bottom of the wages spiral , their savings largely , meaningless . |
| 11 | Clerical Medical 's fund will have to be wound up at the end of five years , which will ensure that it will have to pay CGT in full on whatever has been made . |
| 12 | The scheme is due to be wound up at the end of December 1993 but until then , excepting one or two minor technical amendments affecting mortgage rescues/property management subsidiaries , the rules will remain unchanged . |
| 13 | Even Trepper was captured and the Rote Kapelle was wound up at the end of 1942 . |
| 14 | It was accordingly wound up at the end of May . |
| 15 | On 5 July 1991 the Bank of England presented a petition for an order that an authorised bank be wound up on the ground that it was insolvent . |
| 16 | He had no doubt that the case could be wound up on the strength of it . |
| 17 | George Orwell was particularly fond of striking these contrasts between the ordered stability of the past against the awfulness of the present , and he was also thoroughly wound up in the myths of English civility : ‘ The gentleness of the English civilisation is perhaps its most marked characteristic ’ , he wrote in an essay of 1940 , ‘ Everyone takes it for granted that the law , such as it is , will be respected , and feels a sense of outrage when it is not . ’ |
| 18 | NOTICE To : Smith & Jones ( Contracts ) Limited , whose registered office is situate at Coldharbour Road , Thames Marshes , Essex WHEREAS ( 1 ) You are justly and truly indebted in the sum of £1250 to Robinson Bros Ltd trading as Go Fast Transport whose registered office is situate at Cornmarket Chambers Ipswich Suffolk more particularly in respect of transport costs for the quick delivery of fragile machine equipment and related warehousing costs ( 2 ) By Section 517 ( 1 ) ( f ) of the Companies Act 1985 it is provided that a company may be wound up by the court if the company is unable to pay its debts ( exceeding £750 ) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to you pursuant to Section 518(1) ( a ) of the Companies Act 1985 that you are required to pay the said sum of £1250 to Go Fast Transport ( GFT ) not later than 3 weeks from tomorrow 's date AND that if you neglect to pay the said sum or to secure or compound for it to the reasonable satisfaction of GFT an application will be made to the court for your winding up by petition presented by GFT under the provisions of Section 519 of the Companies Act 1985 . |
| 19 | The haulier should be aware of the circumstances in which he ( or his debtor ) may be wound up on a voluntary basis and the circumstances in which his company ( or his debtor 's ) may be wound up by the court . |
| 20 | The Insolvency Act 1986 , Section 122(1) provides that a company may be wound up by the court if : |
| 21 | the company has by special resolution resolved that the company be wound up by the court ; ( Provisions ( b ) and ( c ) relate to public companies . ) |
| 22 | Section 122(1) of the Insolvency Act 1986 provides that a company may be wound up by the court if : |
| 23 | This still exists in a limited form in relation both to companies and to individuals , in that where a person is adjudged bankrupt or a company is wound up by the court , dispositions of property made by the debtor or the company after a prescribed date , usually the date of the presentation of the petition for a bankruptcy order or a winding up order , are void unless the court otherwise orders : sections 127 and 284 . |
| 24 | The debate was wound up by the Home Secretary who was at his most Clarke-ish , punching the air with his fists and pushing back a lock of hair a la Heseltine . |