1.   Police took cover in combat positions but did not return fire.

2.   The young of many species take cover as soon as an alarm call is given.

3.   We got off and took cover for a while, then came up and got another bus to Fulham.

4.   We were forced to take cover in a barn.

5.   Shoppers took cover behind cars as police marksmen returned fire.

6.   But its challenger in the share race, Middlesbrough stockbroker Wise Speke has also suffered as the market takes cover during the current bout of election fever.

7.   The massacre of the horses, unable to take cover upon the warning whistle of a shell, had become prohibitive.

8.   FIRE CREWS took cover after they came under attack from stone-throwing youths last night.

9.   And the Gray Man of Pawleys Island, who perished in a hurricane and now warns tourists to take cover when storms approach.

10.   Around Cu Chi, all human life had taken cover in an increasingly elaborate tunnel system deep in the hard red earth.