Example sentences of "[vb past] on the business " in BNC.
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| 1 | A company owned and run by Mr and Mrs Bunch carried on the business of purchase and resale of bulk butter . |
| 2 | ‘ You know she carried on the business alone when her father died , got guts has that girl . ’ |
| 3 | In a civil question between the creditors of a deceased and insolvent certificate-holder and his widow , who , without objection by the creditors , obtained the certificate and thereafter carried on the business without any agreement being made regarding her paying her husband 's debts , or the application of the profits during her tenancy , it was decided that she was not bound to account to the creditors for the profits earned by her under her own certificate : Stewart 's Trs. v. Stewart 's Executrix ( 1896 ) 23 R. 739 . |
| 4 | They had three sons and six daughters ; the eldest son , John Wesley Hackworth ( 1820–1891 ) carried on the business after his father 's death , 7 July 1850 , at his home in Shildon , county Durham . |
| 5 | His widow Mary Ann carried on the business with the assistance of her late husband 's associates , including Pierre André , who with John Chapman began a large-scale map of Essex ‘ for Mrs. Rocque ’ . |
| 6 | In Re A Company 's Application [ 1989 ] 3 WLR 265 the plaintiff company carried on the business of providing financial advice and was subject to the regulatory scheme imposed by FIMBRA pursuant to the provisions of the Financial Services Act 1986 . |