1.   Defying drenching rain, bagpipes skirled and Gurkha officers barked their commands for parting precision drill.

2.   Directorial commands are barked, followed by loud thuds and groans, as her dancers hurl themselves against walls or dive off platforms onto mats that have been miked.

3.   He nodded, barked a command to an unseen employee, made a stroke of a pen on a form and passed it to the cashier.

4.   Several bodyguards, also dressed in black and wearing combat boots, followed him around, barking commands into walkie-talkies.

5.   Soldiers marched down the street, barking commands.