1.   Ellis quickly passed the note to the woman, looking around to check that no one had noticed.

2.   He smiled often and passed notes to members of the defense team.

3.   I passed the note back to her.

4.   The teacher saw Phil passing a note to his neighbour.

5.   Also on the rise are lone-bandit takeover robberies, during which the robber brandishes a gun, rather than passing a note and trying to be inconspicuous.

6.   But during the week, the Giants confidently passed notes among each other, with predicted scores scrawled on paper.

7.   But later that day, when Mason was going through a particularly rough patch of questions from Stanton, Sharpton scribbled and passed a note to Hardy and Maddox.

8.   Deputy County Attorney Murray Greenberg said that at one point during the proceedings last week, he passed a note from Penelas to Leahy.

9.   He regularly scribbles on a pad of paper and passes notes to them.