31.   He marched out to the East Front of the Capitol, instructing his bodyguard to warn police that the loud bangs that would soon ring out were not gunshots.

32.   Heard a lot of commotion and then a loud bang.

33.   It can be a loud bang, and can break soldered joints.

34.   MGM officials denied a gun was fired in the hotel during the melee, attributing a loud bang to a champagne bottle hitting a marble floor.

35.   Officers threw two grenadelike devices that create a loud bang, a bright flash and smoke near the man.

36.   Suddenly a loud bang shook the living room of his rented house in Laurel Canyon.

37.   Suddenly, loud bangs broke the silence.

38.   The elevators dropped about a foot and we heard a loud bang.

39.   The loud bang of Israeli tank missiles and the echoing recoil of the cannons echoed in the valley.

40.   There was a string of loud bangs and bright flashes under the second car of the train, which passengers interpreted as explosions.