1.   Shells now began to fall with increasing regularity among closely packed men.

2.   At midafternoon, rebel mortar shells began exploding in Gisenyi, in northwestern Rwanda, where refugees had jammed the border crossing hoping to escape the civil war.

3.   But when shells began to fall, the medics dropped him and ran.

4.   Indeed, by midafternoon, machine-gun fire and artillery shells began flying out of Chugha, a front-line village still controlled by the Taliban.

5.   Once the crabs have shed, they are yanked from the tank before their shell can begin to harden, usually within four hours.

6.   Once, when Fatima Colic was looking for water, Serbian shells began to explode nearby.

7.   Shell began a process of selecting contractors to develop disposal and re-use ideas with an eye toward recommending one or more options to the U.K. government.

8.   The concrete shell is beginning to chip away, like a Philippine Ozymandias, revealing the wire mesh beneath it.

9.   When the shells began falling near the town of Sipovo a few days ago, the army called her husband back from a brief leave.