1.   Police officers had spent several weeks scanning videos of their previous encounters to identify trouble makers.

2.   And the starry-eyed interaction that characterized previous encounters was notably absent.

3.   As a match progresses, the level becomes littered with carcasses and assorted body parts from previous meaningful encounters.

4.   As with the alleged previous encounter, Lewinsky said the president took a call from a member of Congress while she was performing oral sex on him.

5.   Bradley defended himself far more aggressively than he had done in previous encounters with Gore.

6.   A bottle levitates over the crotch of the reclining male, who is pulling out its stopper, as if to release the scent of some previous encounter.

7.   Agassi suggested that Gaudenzi, thanks to owning a ferocious home-court advantage, might prove a tougher opponent Friday than he had in their two previous encounters.

8.   But Dick Bennett, the coach of Wisconsin, said he would be careful not to put too much emphasis on the previous three encounters.

9.   He supported Ms. Messinger based on previous encounters with her, but he also said she was running an anemic campaign.

10.   In his previous Southern encounter with McCain in South Carolina, the Texas governor won convincingly.