31.   For a month after the funeral, buglers seemed inclined to miss that note in taps with unusual regularity during the many times it was sounded at the cemetery.

32.   From the moment the gun sounds at noon in Hopkinton, the race seems a romp.

33.   He said the results were only preliminary and, indeed, had been marred when a fire alarm was sounded at the laboratory interrupting the test.

34.   His beeper did not sound at all last week.

35.   How pathetic you sounded at the press conference announcing your departure.

36.   If Vilnius sounds like love at first sight, it was.

37.   Internet Phone was not daunted, and I had a clear, if half-duplex, conversation that sounded just fine at both ends.

38.   It is still winter, the tag end of February, and at lunch nothing sounds better than a big mug of soup.

39.   It sounded first at Key Biscayne, Fla., two years ago as Hingis nailed Serena but not Venus, and was reprised at Rome last year.

40.   It sounds at first like a foray into the land of family values and patriotism.