1.  A and B squadrons amalgamated into a single squadron.

2.  A baby girl emerges into the world with the pattern for her future possible children already laid within her body.

3.  A beautiful Philippino nurse with a warm smile slid out of - as we slid into - a small office.

4.  A big noise in the record industry, whatever that Cornelius stuffed things into his suitcase.

5.  A bipartisan drive to change the rules for financing federal campaigns is running into stiff resistance from veteran members of Congress.

6.  A black car swung into the drive.

7.  A boy chopped the tree into pieces and burned it.

8.  A boy pushed his head through the opening and craned his neck to see into the room.

9.  A brace of partridge whirred into the air.