1.   Critics generally agreed it was funny, but some admitted to feeling uneasy about laughing at Frank Spencer as his world collapsed around him.

2.   Altogether, it put immense pressure on Brown in a pocket that regularly collapsed around him.

3.   As for Charlotte, she is ill with a tumor and a heart problem that has her collapsing around town at dramatic moments.

4.   As its granules collapsed around my tongue, a magical serum became part of me.

5.   Ausmus, despite having a forearm to his neck and both benches and bullpens collapsing around him, managed to restrain the charging outfielder.

6.   But it was too late, and her home collapsed around her.

7.   But it is often required by perpetual-care cemeteries to prevent the ground from collapsing around a grave when the casket begins to erode.

8.   Fast asleep when the earthquake hit before dawn on Tuesday morning, Pabst awoke to a loud rumble -- the sound of his house beginning to collapse around him.

9.   Having failed to show up for a bail hearing on Tuesday, Durst is now a fugitive, and with it a tortured life that was collapsing around him.

10.   He had lost much of his savings in the stock market, and an array of other Internet companies had collapsed around him.