Sentence examples for to wind it up from inspiring English sources

Despite widespread criticism of the scheme, and Michael Gove's decision to wind it up, the contract with Saudi Arabia appears to be going ahead.

But Mr. Penniman was able to wind it up and show him how things moved, and how all the gears and cams worked.

It is a thing we have to let go, we have to set the parameters, [we] have to wind it up and then off it goes".

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His terrible fate is the cause of a profound disagreement between his wife and daughter: Sylvia wishes to carry on the company in his honour; his daughter angrily wishes to wind it up and reject the grotesque showbiz compulsion which destroyed their family.

He goes back to the truck and opens the cab door on the driver's side and puts the helmet on the floor and shuts the door and goes out to the road and crosses to the fence, where he cuts the wire free from the fence post and begins to wind it up as he walks, passing the wire over his elbow at each turn to make a coil.

So, for some reason it just never occurred to me to actually wind it up and a colleague said to me you should give it a go, so I did.

"My aim was to slowly wind it up and try to get rid of as many people as possible.

Plastic and, he said, unbreakable, the computer will resemble the iPad and will "use so little power you should be able to shake it or wind it up to give it power".

"So I had to go myself and wind it up, wind it up to try to take the kick out of them".

It's basically one of those crowd control tapes with a spring loaded reel to wind it back up after use.