Sentence examples for they were wound from inspiring English sources

The lawyer added: "Mr Woodhouse has held short-lived directorships of two businesses that left debts when they were wound up.

By Mr. Wuorinen's standards it is an easygoing piece: each instrument line had a distinct character, and they were wound around each other in constant, hard-driven interplay.

Hereford United were playing in football's seventh tier when they were wound up with debts of £148,000.

O'Leary, who left his position as boss of Welsh Premier side Neath when they were wound up, has a development role to guide Swansea's young professionals.

Cylinders were produced from T300/polysulfone powder-impregnated towpreg using on-line consolidation; they were wound using different mandrels (aluminum, steel), tow tensions (13.3 N, 44.5 N), cooling rates (natural and natural convection) and radius-to-thickness ratios (11, 5.5).

A new type of SiO2 contacting electrode was prepared to prevent the metal contamination from a conducting wire; the top end of an SiO2 glass plate was put between two single crystal silicon plates and they were wound by a molybdenum wire.

Just as they were winding down, they discovered that they had to start all over again.

Both are in their early 70s; if you didn't know better, you might think they were winding down into gentle rural retirement.

And his mate, whose name I didn't catch, says you can get stung by Stingrays - but it is highly possible that they were winding me up.

The remains were discovered shortly after the commission announced they were winding down the search at Carrickrobin after 16 months of painstaking excavation.

On Tuesday June 10th, the by now exhausted campaigners received a letter from the Revenue Commissioners saying that they were winding up the company.