1.   A group of police officers stepped inside a room with blood-red walls.

2.   Each morning the Macia group stepped onto their skis and snowboards outside their hotel-room door and made a run down to the chairlifts.

3.   My Lindblad group had just stepped off the shuttle van from the airport after a two-hour flight from the busy Ecuadorean port city of Guayaquil.

4.   Only twice during the tour did the group step outside the bus.

5.   There is plenty of evidence that the group stepped back, took a deep breath and reassessed its approach to making music.

6.   Within months, the group stepped out of court with a better contract.

7.   This year the group is stepping up its efforts in oil exploration and production in Sabah through its two production sharing contracts with Petroliam Nasional Bhd, Dingle said.

8.   The group stepped into a waiting car to head to a house in central Kindu, capital of Maniema province.