Example sentences of "it [vb past] out [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the top of the boom the group 's worldwide housing business made only £35m ; in 1991 it wiped out years of British housebuilding profits by writing off £25m against just one housing estate — the St Mary Abbots luxury development in Kensington . |
| 2 | Although CDC would not come clean with its actual choice of another RISC , it ruled out Sparc , said DEC 's Alpha was just vapourware and admitted it had been positively influenced by HP 's technology commitment . |
| 3 | She could almost write his hurt for him , his wonder at another of Sylvie 's acts , trace the workings of his mind as it ferreted out reasons , laid blame at his own doorstep . |
| 4 | Murder appalled him because it took everything from the victim with no possibility of restitution , it blotted out memories of a past and hopes for a future . |
| 5 | Last year it paid out £1.9 million . |
| 6 | It turned out Paul had been wrong . |
| 7 | It turned out Lewis had checked with the education college about the course . |
| 8 | And it turned out chap had been locked out and he forced one of his windows himself to get in . |
| 9 | But when I pressed O it turned out W but you know as we 're typing and all of a sudden you 've pressed O , and then I say I press W I got W up but no O. |
| 10 | I had to check with John what had been sent and it turned out Rollersnakes — or one particular roller skating employee of said carpet shop/skateboard emporium — had kept most of my stuff for themselves and given me their old stock off the shelf . |
| 11 | This gracious and well-proportioned early 19th-century building has a varied past : it started out life as a rectory , became a farmhouse , and is now a comfortable country hotel . |
| 12 | It was a lie so blatant , it brought out Rosie 's anger . |
| 13 | It brought out Marxists , the lost armies of CND , Michael X , continuing his transition from Rachmanism , dress designers , artists , priests . |
| 14 | Just before WIN was smashed by the KGB , it sent out delegates to Paris and London and Washington and soon afterwards these delegates received news through various sources that WIN was being built up again . |
| 15 | It did n't touch anything till his stomach , whence it sent out radiance . |
| 16 | The most damaging effect of the Education Reform Act would be if it snuffed out teachers ' belief that it is worthwhile thinking and talking about what they are doing . |
| 17 | Ultimately the government will probably bail out Krakatau as it bailed out Mr Liem 's Indocement , South-East Asia 's largest cement producer , which faced bankruptcy in 1985 after expanding too rapidly . |
| 18 | The company 's poor performance has been brought about by adverse factors that have dogged Lowndes since it bought out Harris Queensway , which had grown fast in the early 1980s only to fall on more difficult times . |
| 19 | As they watched , it tore out Hugo Baskerville 's throat . |
| 20 | He claimed in the press that it set out Government policy , but it was a million miles away from our policy . |