Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [prep] the uk " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Millie came to the UK in 1964 on the strength of her huge hit ‘ My Boy Lollipop ’ , Edwards also arrived , and recorded under the tutelage of Chris Blackwell , Island 's Jamaican-born boss . |
| 2 | In his absence , the 200 metres final was won by Allyn Condon of Sale in 21.75 secs 0.70 secs slower than the personal best Gookey recorded in the UK Championships . |
| 3 | The first Rottweiler to be imported from Germany came via the UK , owing to very strict quarantine regulations . |
| 4 | The few French privatisations that occurred before the current Socialist government came in — Compagnie Financiere de Suez being a good example - excited heavy demand from French retail investors , rather as British Gas and British Telecom did in the UK . |
| 5 | Although we in the UK were behind the Americans in introducing the mandatory carriage of FDRs in public transport aircraft fitted with turbine engines , we had the advantage of learning from their experience since some foreign registered aircraft of American manufacture which were fitted with FDRs crashed in the UK . |
| 6 | In February 1984 , the SS Elgaren sailed from the UK with a precious cargo on board , Oxford G–AITF ( formerly RAF ED920 ) . |
| 7 | While sales of Ford cars fell 17 per cent , Ford Credit upped its contracts by 15 per cent from 539,000 to 620,000 , and financed 318,000 new sales — equivalent to nine of every 20 new Fords sold in the UK in 1990 . |
| 8 | Despite being in Alaska at the time , en route round the world with his wife , Pat aboard their yacht Blackjack , Mike returned to the UK in 1989 , specially to design Q2 . |
| 9 | Van den Berghs marketing director Bill Young carried off the UK Marketer of the Year award at a packed ceremony in London late last week . |
| 10 | John West arrived in the UK in 1973 as part of the South African Admiral 's Cup team sailing aboard Jackaranda , and like many young visiting yachtsmen he decided to stay . |
| 11 | After his Karakoram trip Steve returned to the UK and decided to winter in anticipation of leaving for Nepal and Makalu the next year . |
| 12 | This is crucial for the mass-market mover , the car which last year accounted for 59 per cent of all the BMWs sold in the UK . |
| 13 | The United Kingdom Parliamentary Human Rights Group Report , published on April 4 — the day the Dalai Lama arrived in the UK for a nine-day pastoral visit — and alleging that over 1,000,000 Tibetans had died between 1950 and 1984 as a direct result of Chinese rule , brought the same response . |
| 14 | For overseas readers who did not receive our Classic Aircraft supplement on the Vulcan issued to the UK readers |
| 15 | Fang and Li travelled to the UK on June 25 on a US military aircraft . |
| 16 | Britain already has a foothold in this market — the only home-grown resist available is an electron-beam resin that Philips developed in the UK . |
| 17 | After a three-year period in North America , Britten and Pears returned to the UK in 1942 at the height of the Second World War . |