1.   Moira telephoned with profuse apologies for the misunderstanding.

2.   Our profuse apologies go out to both gentlemen.

3.   The following day, Moira telephoned the Daily Telegraph with profuse apologies for the misunderstanding.

4.   He made profuse apologies.

5.   Then the policeman recognised me, breaking into profuse apologies.

6.   He offered profuse apologies for being late.

7.   And King backed away with profuse apologies, as though he had just been dipped in hot bacon grease.

8.   Journalists who were hustled back on to the plane one day, were welcomed with profuse apologies two days later.

9.   Profuse apologies followed.

10.   Maulvi Mohammed Rabbani, the senior Taliban official in Kabul, arrived at the station and offered profuse apologies to Bonino and the journalists, he said.