1.   He punctured a tyre in the last lap.

2.   According to police investigators, the two men probably punctured her tyre while the car was parked in the shopping centre.

3.   Even car tyres were punctured.

4.   Investigators said predatory criminals were known to puncture the tyres of lone female motorists and then track them down from major shopping places to offer assistance.

5.   In northern France farmers intercepted a Dutch lorry on the Franco-Belgian border near Valenciennes and forced it to stop after puncturing a tyre.

6.   Barricades and spiked devices to puncture tyres will be deployed across the city, while police will be issued with powerful bikes to enable them to give chase.

7.   The thieves punctured the tyres of the bus and military vehicles before leaving.

8.   Police were on the scene in minutes and to stop the gunmen getting away, passers-by punctured the tyres of the minibus in which they had arrived.

9.   Passers-by punctured the tyres of the minibus in which they had arrived and the driver of a garbage truck blocked a road junction outside the building with his vehicle.