11.   Uncle George always had terrific stories that fired up our imagination.

12.   Gingerly, I fired up Outlook and connected to the Net.

13.   He took the paper, nodded briefly and ran out to his bike, firing it up instantly.

14.   Along the way, Nen fired up his new teammates by striking out five of the six batters he faced, including Bell, Jeff Bagwell and Moises Alou.

15.   An avid Rollerblader, she fired up her computer one night and scanned the Web for instructions on how to rotate the wheels on her inline skates.

16.   And Boyd fires up the cooker.

17.   And in an attempt to bolster their bottom lines, Anderson and the News Group instituted programs that have fired up even more controversy among the small publishers.

18.   And later on there could be a jump in gas prices as furnaces are fired up this winter.

19.   And the exhaust tone when he fired up the Ford to move it for photos . . . well, it was to die for.

20.   And the Kings unwittingly helped the L.A. cause, firing up way too many blanks.