1.   Announcement of the awards set champagne corks popping.

2.   At the NoS offices the champagne corks had been popping.

3.   Others barely notice the baskets of warm toast, the crisp bacon and popping champagne corks.

4.   The champagne corks popped but then the reporter told us the house had been repossessed.

5.   The noises of men talking and laughing and the sound of champagne corks popping filter out into the corridor.

6.   Yet no one is popping champagne corks.

7.   Willi was busy undoing the wire round the champagne cork.

8.   And finally, a hotel owner is popping champagne corks tonight after being told he can carry on flying the flag.

9.   No sooner had the excitement died down in Coventry than champagne corks were popping at Courtaulds Fibres in Grimsby.