1.   He and his wife, Kathy, moved from a large thatched house in Berkshire when they bought the property eight years ago.

2.   He got so low that the bamboos bent down and the roofs on thatched houses flew away.

3.   Where the simple thatched houses of peasants have always stood, all that remains are clusters of ripped and shredded clothing and a few scattered kitchen utensils.

4.   He has rebuilt a thatched house and acquired some livestock and a small fish pond.

5.   Her little thatched house in the nearby hamlet of Khtum was hit by shrapnel.

6.   Special attractions for backpackers are old Portuguese stone forts and traditional villages with beehive-shaped thatched houses on stilts.

7.   Special attractions for backpackers are old Portuguese stone forts and traditional villages with beehive-shaped thatched houses on stilts in the interior.

8.   The downpour and flooding demolished thousands of mud and thatched houses.

9.   An AFP correspondent who visited the scene after the battle reported that trees and thatched houses were splattered with blood and pockmarked by bullet holes.

10.   Another report said at least three thatched houses belonging to MMD members were burnt to ashes but no one was hurt.