1.   And not a minute before my brain exploded.

2.   But that is not an uncommon situation on long-range commercial aircraft, and none have spontaneously exploded before.

3.   In the national capital, Jakarta, one man was killed when a hand grenade exploded before dawn at a shopping center.

4.   Others, the type experts say mostly likely dropped on Afghanistan, are set on simple fuses to explode shortly before hitting the ground.

5.   Then, as you dip over the El Paso Mountains, dropping into the Indian Wells Valley, it almost explodes before you.

6.   They narrowly escaped death by fleeing the hotel in the middle of the night just minutes after a telephoned warning and moments before the bomb exploded.

7.   We knew it was an A-bomb but none of us had ever seen one explode before.

8.   Witnesses reported that the plane was on fire and exploded before hitting the garage.

9.   A car bomb exploded before dawn Wednesday outside a hotel-casino in a Lima suburb, killing three people and injuring eight.

10.   A bomb exploded before dawn, damaging a bank in a seaside town in the northwest of this violence plagued French Mediterranean island Tuesday, police said.