11.   Counts, who races motorcycles in his spare time, guns the engine as he leans into a turn.

12.   Exhausts crackled like those of dragsters as the racers, barely able to idle, jockeyed at the line and gunned custom-built engines.

13.   Hill gunned the engine just as Lewis got himself in front of the car.

14.   Phone and cable-television companies are gunning their engines now that Congress has passed legislation that means fewer rules of the road on the information highway.

15.   Ten minutes into the show, Fagan announces that he must gun his engines and leave the dolphins behind.

16.   The aircraft gunned its engines twice before crashing, Merringer before it slammed into a grassy area, Merringer told the Associated Press.

17.   The birds are still dreaming, and the garbage trucks are just beginning to gun their engines.

18.   The father leaned in the passenger window, grasping for wisdom as the son gunned the engine.

19.   The pilot gunned the engine and swung the plane back into the air before the wing hit the ground.