Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] the uk " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like many , he got known in the UK through the Virgin ‘ Techno ’ compilations but , when he came to Britain with Inner City 's ‘ Big Fun ’ tour , his career and personal life nose-dived when Blake discovered he was epileptic . |
| 2 | In 1987 fast food services really started to spread throughout the UK . |
| 3 | Hermes , earlier in 1991 , decided to withdraw from the UK market citing catastrophic trading losses in the UK as their reason . |
| 4 | On Dec. 1 Talb 's Uppsala home was raided , and the clothing seized taken to the UK for forensic tests , following court and Swedish government approval . |
| 5 | The solution was provided by Mark Cole , a brilliant climber and naturalist who had come from the UK with us . |
| 6 | According to the report , details of the " blacklist " had been passed to British intelligence officials by the former first secretary at the Chinese embassy in London , Feng Baosheng , who had defected to the UK in mid-March . |
| 7 | It was also hoped that there would be a general improvement in Anglo-Iraqi relations , which had deteriorated following the UK 's efforts to thwart Iraq 's acquisition of advanced missile and nuclear technology [ see pp. 37332 ; 37390-91 ] . |
| 8 | The Act removed the right of people who had settled in the UK before 1973 to register as British citizens , and replaced this with the opportunity to naturalise as British at the discretion of the Secretary of State at the Home Office . |
| 9 | Within eight to nine years production of hops had halved in the UK . ’ |
| 10 | Sadly , little of this work had appeared in the UK . |
| 11 | The evidence was that he had worked in the UK for 40 weeks and in Italy for 50 weeks . |
| 12 | Thomas Ward , who had returned to the UK from the United States in June 1991 , still faced charges under the Theft Act 1968 . |
| 13 | Sales optimism had rebounded in the UK , suggesting a recovery was set to take hold , said D&B 's chief economist , Joseph Duncan . |