1.   A ban on tobacco industry name-brand sponsorship of sporting events would take effect a year later.

2.   A brief mood of shapeless hysteria took hold of the claustrophobic young community, which ended abruptly with a short holiday.

3.   A climber who lost his footing was taken to hospital with serious injuries.

4.   A cocktail bar, with two or three bar stools in front of it, took up the whole of one corner.

5.   A complete floor in a central telephone complex in Belfast was taken over by army technicians.

6.   A crazy man, some one she had never seen before, took a shot at her from a rooftop.

7.   A culture of isolation and relentless profit pressure had taken its toll.

8.   A degree of anaerobic filtration should take place in this media.

9.   A few nights later, I took three or four at once, to see what happened.