Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [vb pp] out a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forced to convene yet another extraordinary meeting by sacked directors trying to get back on the board , Amalgamated Financial Investments has sent out a suitably apologetic letter to shareholders . |
| 2 | Vonadk reported on Jan. 8 that resistance fighters had carried out a grenade attack in Phnom Penh on Jan. 6 , killing a number of " traitorous Vietnamese puppets and lackeys " . |
| 3 | At the Penta the porters had worked out a neat scam with the airline crews who regularly booked into the hotel . |
| 4 | Although the companies surveyed paid out a total of £64.021m in audit fees to 1,674 different auditing firms , £36.893m of it ( 57.63% ) went to the top 12 , which audit 28.66% of them . |
| 5 | ‘ Companies have taken out a tier of management to save money , appointing financial controllers as directors designate , ’ warns Mr Austin . |
| 6 | And it seemed Fergie 's ten man heroes had squeezed out a momentous victory until the soccer fates suddenly stabbed them in the back in the pouring rain of Moscow . |
| 7 | A Georgian parliamentary commission which was established to investigate the incident later concluded that the interior troops had carried out a ‘ punitive action — a planned mass massacre , committed with especial cruelty ’ . |
| 8 | AMID a confusion of conflicting reports , Russia yesterday denied one of its planes had carried out a raid that killed one man and wounded eight people in Sukhumi , capital of the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia . |
| 9 | The torches beam picked out a notice telling of the Covenanters who had been imprisoned there three hundred and fifty years before and another commemorating the once famous Scots buried under the damp , heavy earth . |
| 10 | In fairness , it must be said that the professions have worked out a number of checks and balances to this system , and a common alternative to a percentage fee , hourly rates , can work out as an even more expensive open cheque drawn on the public purse . |
| 11 | More recently , certain United States government figures have ruled out a settlement which would leave the PDPA as the ‘ backbone of the Kabul Government ’ and they have indicated the unacceptability of the continuation of a ‘ communist front government ’ in Afghanistan . |
| 12 | The auditors had carried out a specific investigation of the Gimco bills and with regard to recoverability , they had no more than an assurance from Gimco , an Abu Dhabi entity , that the bills would be honoured ‘ within three to four months or earlier when able ’ and an unsupported statement by G that he believed Gimco would pay . |
| 13 | The trees had thinned out a little , the closer they got to the coast , until they passed by the last of them and stepped on to sand that seemed to stretch endlessly in either direction . |
| 14 | Councillors have thrown out a motion calling for a ban on foxhunting on all council owned land . |
| 15 | The scandals have brought out a rash of new political movements , all of which want Tokyo 's dominance curbed . |
| 16 | A spokesperson commented that " more than 700 scientists have sent out a clarion call for action , and the USA was the only wealthy country not to make tangible promises " . |
| 17 | Poachers have carried out a sustained assault on tigers in the Indian reserve of Ranthambhor , 140 miles south of Delhi . |
| 18 | Responsibility for the bomb has been claimed by the IRA and the police have carried out a full investigation . |
| 19 | The clever children have worked out a way to milk the system . |
| 20 | Bomb disposal experts have carried out a series of controlled explosions on a store of Second World War weapons and ammunition . |
| 21 | A woman with more than five hundred cacti has worked out a solution to the prickly problem of how to keep the plants looking at their best . |
| 22 | Jacqui had paid out a thousand pounds for something that could be reproduced at will . |