1.   He stepped around the center and nearly had Banks down when the quarterback tossed the ball away.

2.   Moving carefully, Benny stepped around the edges of the room, and opened the window shutters.

3.   And Clinton, who both protested against the war and avoided serving in it, has always had to step gingerly around such matters at home.

4.   Another suggested detergents so powerful that the cleaners would need chemical-warfare protective suits, even as unprotected subway riders gingerly stepped around them.

5.   As Quayle was stepping briskly around a turn in the Milford parade, he came upon a marquee.

6.   At least two other top players on the tour have privately grumbled about the way tour officials delicately step around the absences of Venus and Serena Williams.

7.   At the news conference Friday, Clinton and Hashimoto neatly stepped around foreign-policy issues on which the two countries clearly had some differences.

8.   All around me, crowds of commuters with briefcases and headphones walked by, stepping around me without breaking stride.

9.   But Bush knows how to step around a political minefield.

10.   But there were definitely danger zones in our conversations during these years that we stepped around, so as not to fall through.