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Simple sentences
Tom and Mary ran into the air-raid shelter.
Cellphones do not work in the air-raid shelter.
Tom's number plates were stolen and used in a ram raid.
Movie subtitles
It's a raid!
Do you know how mad everyone is about this guy who's causing a raid every night?
The way you won that yacht and that ridiculous raid.
Raid.
Where's the General? He took to the cellar, Sir, when the raid began.
There may be an air raid, but it is not likely to be a very serious one.
An air raid is approaching Everytown.
One air raid should do it.
What is this, a raid?
He led a raid on that Shantytown where Mrs. Kennedy got into trouble.
Fell leading a bombing raid upon the enemy trenches.
Peter Colley lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards was killed in action during a trench raid on the night of November the 6th.
Air raid.
A private air raid?
The tiny country standing in our way will not have a chance to defend itself. One air raid should do it.
Is it for this that you hold me back from a raid on Spain?
Indian raid. Four of my workmen wounded. And they've stolen 20 head of horses.
Must find Indians who raid wagon train. and steal from Iron Horse camp. so redcoat chief know we speak with straight tongue.
They oughta be. They're three that were stolen in the raid and wasn't brought back with the others.
While attempting a raid on the Panama treasure caravan. he was captured by Spanish troops. and is now a condemned prisoner on one of His Majesty's galleys.
I'm a senior air raid warden.
Every time we raid Nick, he proves he doesn't own the place.
It's a raid.
Was that an air-raid warning?
An air raid. I told you we'll be late.
Never enjoyed an air raid more.
In the shadow of a death raid, I can meet you and feel more intensely alive. than walking around in peacetime, taking my life for granted.
In the moment you left me after the air raid, I knew I must find you again quickly.
Air-raid alarm.
Skimmed milk for six weeks you don't know how wonderful it is to be able to come downstairs and raid an icebox.
One day the air-raid alarm went off, and everyone ran. Just she and I were left.
News and current affairs
Blix had opposed the raid.
The muted response of the Arab states to Israel's recent mysterious air raid on its territory reflects its isolation within the Arab world - an isolation with which the Syrians are extremely uncomfortable.
The Egyptian high command was convinced that Sharon's crossing was only an overnight raid by light forces.
Sharon sought natural fighters rather than dutiful soldiers, and he carefully planned each raid, always sending some men well beyond the target of the attack to ambush any reinforcements.
Air raid sirens were finally heard in Israel's two largest cities.
Hamas acted by increasing rocket attacks on nearby Israeli territory, and by launching a raid into Israel itself, killing two soldiers and capturing another.
One illustration of this attitude is the recent raid on the headquarters of the Media-Most conglomerate whose television and radio stations, as well as newspapers, have been critical of the Chechnya campaign.
The raid - by heavily armed and masked men! - was allegedly carried out to investigate unlawful actions by the company's personnel.
In the former case, Obama personally managed a unilateral use of force, which involved a raid on Pakistani territory.
The Army of Islam joined in the raid that abducted the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in June 2006.
Obama, for his part, scored points by shaming Romney for having opposed the illegal raid that killed Osama Bin Laden.
In the background of this legal and moral failure is major cheerleading about the Bin Laden raid, in which a US Navy SEAL team swarmed a compound in a residential Pakistani neighborhood and assassinated a lot of people.
Likewise, this month the magazine Vanity Fair published a hagiographic behind-the-scenes look at the steps that Obama and his team took in the run-up to the raid.
Last November, for example, seven French soldiers were killed in a regime-ordered air raid against the northern rebels.
And, in the midst of this tussle, the US sent Navy Seals to find Bin Laden at a compound deep in Pakistani territory, informing Pakistan's government only after the raid was over.
When such a moment arrived, totally out of the blue (or so it seemed) with Hezbollah's raid on July 12, 2006, Israel's two top politicians were completely out of their depth, stumbling into a war for which neither they nor the Israeli Army were prepared.