41.   He took her arm as she hesitated at the top of the steps and, as they walked along the deserted promenade, his arm slid round her.

42.   He took her arm and for a moment Sophie resented his high-handed manner.

43.   DUP Councillor Sammy Wilson has admitted he would take up arms to resist a union between Ulster and the Republic.

44.   Mr Lasic left his Fife home several times during the war in Croatia to take up arms in his homeland.

45.   And does that mean that law-abiding citizens should take up arms just in case they encounter a robber armed with an illegal gun?

46.   And in the case of sports, which were invented precisely to serve as ritualized battles, taking up arms against war metaphors seems especially quixotic.

47.   As hard-line Hutu militants have drifted home among the other refugees, many have taken up arms again.

48.   As in Kosovo, a minority ethnic Albanian group has taken up arms against a dominant Slav government.

49.   As a logical extension, no court would confirm on a private militia the power to take up arms against the government.

50.   As the repression worsened, some villagers took up arms and joined the guerrillas, but most members of the community fled the violence.