11.   Crime is low, perhaps because everybody flees well before dark.

12.   Dye fled before police arrived, authorities testified, leaving a trail of stolen items he apparently tossed away to avoid being caught with them.

13.   Having got the message, many fled before the show opened in Munich.

14.   Her parents met in Hong Kong, where they fled just before the Revolution, and came to Canada when Mina was a baby.

15.   Hundreds of workers fled before Ernest Hall Jr. killed Marshall and himself.

16.   In a familiar tactic, the troops apparently opened fire on the villages Tuesday morning, sending streams of frightened families fleeing before setting homes alight.

17.   In many villages destroyed by bombing, survivors have said that al-Qaida leaders were never there, or fled before American bombs and missiles struck.

18.   In the morning, as we first entered the forest to start our collections, everything fled before us.

19.   In turn, thousands of Serb civilians have fled before the advancing government forces.

20.   Instead, they probably fled before the bombing, moving like ghosts to fight again elsewhere.