Example sentences of "[vb pp] out [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never mind the crater in the window , never mind the tyres with several thousand miles scraped off their lives , never mind some brand new little glitch that had better be sorted out a.s.a.p. in the cab 's suspension . |
| 2 | MICHAEL Caine 's supersmart London caff , Langan 's Brasserie , recently shelled out £2,000 towards two smart black cast-iron litter bins . |
| 3 | Die Hard director John McTiernan is putting one together at Fox ( ’ Grab that Uzi , Maid Marion ! ’ ) , and production company Morgan Creek has just shelled out £1.2m for Prince Of Thieves , a reworking of the Sherwood Forest legend . |
| 4 | Paul Hardyman ( full back ) : A few months ago Hardyman was down in the dumps Sunderland had shelled out £350,000 for another left back , Anton Rogan , and his days at Roker looked numbered . |
| 5 | They are now sixth with supporters angered by the run of poor results particularly as Rovers have lashed out £5.4m on a make-or-break spending spree . |
| 6 | ‘ Prophets ’ and ‘ Issue ’ fell comfortably into a well thought out series of paintings . |
| 7 | Management consultancy not only made him rich ( he sold Telesis for $1m and has just forked out $1.25m for a Washington house ) ; it also convinced him that America 's ludicrously wasteful health-care system was undermining the nation 's competitiveness abroad . |
| 8 | One clubs , Wasps , decided to wait until Saturday to make their decision , much to the annoyance of their opponents , Harlequins , who had forked out £1,500 for an overnight stay in a hotel . |
| 9 | The devoted duo have splashed out £50,000 on Butlins visits — £1,000 more than they paid for their house . |
| 10 | Southampton have splashed out £1.5m on Perry Groves and Ken Monkou , with £750,000 earmarked for Sunderland 's Gordon Armstrong . |
| 11 | That overdraft has resulted from club-record spending by the Owls manager , who has splashed out £4.3m in his 18 months at the Hillsborough helm . |
| 12 | There was also the story , this time true , that she had splashed out $250,000 on a luxury home in the suburbs of her native Melbourne , only to rent it out while she stayed at home with her beloved parents . |
| 13 | PETE Waterman , the Svengali pop boss behind Undercover 's Baker Street smash , has splashed out £40,000 on an historic train engine called the Thunderer . |
| 14 | ACTOR John Thaw has splashed out £425,000 on a fourth home for himself and wife Sheila Hancock . |
| 15 | The Premier League favourites feared that ground re-development would have left Highbury with a ‘ graveyard ’ atmosphere , so splashed out £150,000 on a mural , depicting rows of cheering and scarf-waving fans . |
| 16 | ‘ I have already paid out £100,000 in legal fees . |
| 17 | IBM has paid out $3.63 in dividends so far this year , and cutting out the fourth quarter payout altogether would save it a very welcome $680m or so . |
| 18 | BA has already paid out £610,000 in libel damages and £1 million costs , but Virgin wants the new settlement to cover damage inflicted in the three years of the ‘ dirty tricks ’ campaign of customer poaching and publicity smears . |
| 19 | BA already have paid out £610,000 in libel damages and £1 million costs , but Virgin wants a settlement to cover damage inflicted in the three years of the ‘ dirty tricks ’ campaign of customer poaching and publicity smears . |
| 20 | The Government has paid out £150m to former BC investors since the company 's collapse , and it first voiced its intention to recover as much of that sum as possible from BC 's professional advisers almost three years ago . |