1.   When the check comes, the lobbyists almost always pick up the tab.

2.   And when an infrequent check did come in the mail, it invariably bounced.

3.   Before the Cliburn, they rarely knew where the next rent check would come from.

4.   A heart-rate check comes at the halfway point of six workout sequences, the latter part of which focuses on lower-body toning.

5.   Alicia knows when the check comes in the mail.

6.   By contrast, paper tax returns mailed to the IRS will take from six to nine weeks to be processed before a refund check comes back in the mail.

7.   Check comes, get on the State Street bus.

8.   Checks have now come in from every state in the Union.

9.   Down came checks issued by the New York City Housing Authority and records of unemployment checks from the New York State Department of Social Services.

10.   For Ms. Garcia, who applied for retraining after losing her job at Sun Apparel, those checks will come at the cost of self-respect.