1.   After checking our papers, the border guards let us through.

2.   Certainly he had bribed more border guards and Communist officials than he could remember.

3.   Drug money has financed ministers and members of parliament and co-opted thousands of policemen and border guards.

4.   Eventually we managed to get the border guards to see reason.

5.   Here, a border guard and two customs officers, all in uniform, came aboard to inspect our documents.

6.   His adversaries include still more cossacks, a border guard or two, a rabbi, and a pugilist.

7.   Last November, after bribing the border guards, she crossed the frozen Tumen with her blind daughter.

8.   The bikes were, technically, contraband, but the border guards turned a blind eye.

9.   The border guards waved us through.

10.   The budget surplus could be used to hire and train more border guards.