1.   A few of us just happened to be around when the melee began.

2.   Smoke rose over the track, firefighters rushed to douse flaming engines, and the melee began again.

3.   When the run ended, the melee began.

4.   It was not clear how the melee began.

5.   On the downside, trial testimony shows Lopez was nowhere near Combs when a gunfire-punctuated melee began inside Club New York.

6.   The melee began when anti-independence activists marched to the U.N. compound following the funeral of a militant killed in a brawl with independence supporters, witnesses said.

7.   The melee began when far-right activists gathered in protest of a museum exhibition on atrocities that German soldiers committed during World War II.

8.   The melee began when angry protesters charged the parliament building, pelting the doors with stones.

9.   The melee began when the youths threw stones at the soldiers at a checkpoint on the edge of the Israeli-controlled zone of the city.