11.   Return the plate to the freezer, and after a few minutes, check it by nudging it with your finger.

12.   The fourth line, the only one earmarked for checking by Muckler, is made up of Bill Berg, Brian Skrudland and Darren Langdon.

13.   The kind direction further softened an evening of political attacks on an incumbent president, attacks whose harshness the GOP had checked by having women deliver them.

14.   Then check it by first watering, then turning it upside down.

15.   They had bided their time instead of checking it by the second hand.

16.   Those needing footnotes, Bedford blithely assures us, can check them by retrieving his Columbia dissertation.

17.   Webley, a company based in Washington, D.C., is one of the only surviving companies that allow users to check e-mail by phone.

18.   When writing out a summons, they ask the violator for identification and then check by cellular telephone to see if the person has any outstanding warrants.

19.   You can check by examining outlets and receptacles.

20.   You could offer to check regularly by phone with your subordinates, for instance, or to continue to attend important staff meetings.