1.   Charlie could hear rifles being cocked up and down the trenches as sleepy men quickly came to life.

2.   But one student said that just before the shooting, the riot troops cocked their rifles, prompting a hail of taunts from the students.

3.   I cocked the rifle and slid it to the floor of the car.

4.   That sets a dozen or so soldiers cocking their rifles and chasing through the narrow allies of the ancient city after the mini-demolitionists.

5.   When Little Joey absent-mindedly cocks his rifle, Shane snaps around like a gunfighter.

6.   I immediately froze, cocked my rifle and saw the car come at me.

7.   They were sitting on the side of a logging road when they thought they heard a deer and each cocked his rifle, loading a round into the chamber.

8.   Two soldiers approached the first vehicle, rifles cocked.

9.   Wearing a green military uniform, he held up and cocked a rifle, with a black suitcase presumably containing explosives beside him.

10.   German ISAF troops were earlier involved in an inca confrontation during which one of the bodyguards allegedly cocked his rifle.