1.   Dawson felt as if he were the advance party for a dawn raid.

2.   In any other part of the country, police would have apprehended the drug dealers in a series of dawn raids.

3.   Police smashed a major drugs ring after a series of dawn raids.

4.   To talk of dawn raids in the circumstances is palpable nonsense.

5.   The police swooped down on them in a dawn raid, and all five gang members were arrested.

6.   In Kiev the parade went ahead after students blockading the route had been ejected in a dawn police raid.