1.   If the situation is basically stable, the drama then begins when something occurs which has the potential to destabilise it.

2.   Map-making, co-ordinates, scale The drama begins with the children being shown a treasure map.

3.   The drama began when police were called to a pub car park in Blaydon, Gateshead, where a man was reported sniffing glue in a car.

4.   And that was before the drama had really begun.

5.   As for Kovalev, his drama began a few hours before faceoff.

6.   For Fox, the drama began nearly nine hours earlier, when she stepped up to swim the second leg in the preliminary.

7.   Great dramas have begun to unfold.

8.   Guests and hotel staff members said the drama began in terror and ended quietly, with some of the gunmen apologizing.

9.   In a prelude to the main plot, the drama begins with lifelike news reports of fictional railroad accidents.

10.   In the movie, the drama would begin in much the same way it did in real life.