1.   Four minutes past two ... I open the lid and reveal a discouraging mass of loose papers.

2.   His tongue flicked nervously across dry lips as he prepared to open the lid.

3.   On the screen a woman nonchalantly opens the lid of a washing machine and out leaps one of the Things.

4.   Quick as a flash, Lavender got her pencil-box from her satchel and slid open the lid just a tiny bit.

5.   Then, on second thoughts, she opened the lid just the tiniest fraction so that the creature could breathe.

6.   To open the lid, you simply loosen two thumbscrews.

7.   When night does fall, she opens the lid and stretches out her two front pairs of legs.

8.   When the six-digit combination showed, he flicked back the locks and opened the lid.

9.   You open the lid by grasping a handle shaped like a burned match.