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  • She said that she'd been listening to her radio when the station had aired an intercepted broadcast of an American prisoner of war speaking on Japanese radio.†   (source)
  • He slipped through a side door and wandered through the hospital for about fifteen minutes until a nurse intercepted him.†   (source)
  • She sometimes gets hung up, or intercepted.†   (source)
  • Edgar crouched on the cement pier, ready to intercept her if she bolted his way.†   (source)
  • The next day at school, I was walking across the cafeteria to our lunch table when I was intercepted by Daisy.†   (source)
  • The next war objective is very clear: We must capture the intercepted Trisolaran messages stored on Judgment Day.†   (source)
  • Wes and his friend cut into an alley, trying to intercept Ray before he could get to his house.†   (source)
  • I'll have to intercept Caleb before he mentions anything to our parents, but Caleb can keep a secret.†   (source)
  • I am familiar enough with electronic communications to know they can be intercepted.†   (source)
  • So I told him about my dad and the eggs and salmonella and how I'd been intercepting eggs for nearly two years.†   (source)
  • Argh, no — Quaffle intercepted by Warrington, Warrington of Slytherin tearing UP the field — WHAM!†   (source)
  • They spend all this time disguising the place so satellites can't see it, and they mask the handphone transmissions so they won't be intercepted.†   (source)
  • He intercepted the pass and raced toward his basket.†   (source)
  • On course for Hermes intercept.†   (source)
  • Feeling in need of a drink myself at this point, I intercepted the waiter as he came in my direction.†   (source)
  • See if we can intercept them.†   (source)
  • In May, the U.S. Navy began Operation Market Time—"to detect and intercept surface traffic in South Vietnam coastal waters."†   (source)
  • The kid who intercepted Brian Denehy's pass to Hands Down and punted it back longer than Denehy himself ever threw it.†   (source)
  • She intercepted Chaol as soon as she crossed the line of chalk.†   (source)
  • Or maybe he lets me because he knows the ramifications of intercepting a self-proclaimed caffeine addict.†   (source)
  • As soon as I got to the house I started looking for Emma, but Miss Peregrine intercepted me before I'd even made it past the front hall.†   (source)
  • If anyone were to intercept the letters, to find out about you—†   (source)
  • Moments later, we're intercepted by a large man with a scar from his chin to his ear.†   (source)
  • Leo and Jason charged to intercept.†   (source)
  • As she resumed her normal stride and approached the waiting area, she intercepted a nurse with a message for Jack Salmon in Room 582.†   (source)
  • An oil tanker from the Middle East intercepted a transmission one time.†   (source)
  • Then I made myself a pot of coffee, found a stale scone in the kitchen and forced myself to eat it, and was down in the shop and open for business by noon—just in time to intercept the mail lady in her plastic rain poncho (looking a bit alarmed, standing well back from rheumy-eyed me with my cut lip and my bloody Kleenex), although as she was handing the mail over to me with latex-gloved hands I realized: what was the point?†   (source)
  • I get an extra-large portion of pea soup and am headed back to Compartment E when Boggs intercepts me.†   (source)
  • The Varden haven't contacted me to explain how they lost the egg, so I suspect that their runners were intercepted by the Empire and the Ra'zac were sent in their place.†   (source)
  • Handheld looking glass communicators had never been viable for anything but short, cryptic intelligence reports, as dispatches could be intercepted by anyone at any time.†   (source)
  • A uniformed guard near the tour portal saw the confusion as Queue cut through and stepped forward to intercept the rude intruder.†   (source)
  • As class ended and Jenny and Marley rejoined me, Miss Dominatrix intercepted us.†   (source)
  • Why, the embassies were surrounded these days, and all the recent refugees had been intercepted and put in prison where most of them had disappeared forever.†   (source)
  • Mike intercepted us and steered us to his table.†   (source)
  • And her being in Ors in person was incredibly convenient—it presented an opportunity to tell her about the situation without anyone else intercepting the message and either spoiling whatever the plan was, or alerting wrongdoers that their plan had been discovered, making them harder to catch.†   (source)
  • As the men arrived, reporters intercepted them.†   (source)
  • Occasionally English planes retaliated and then the German fighters might intercept them right over Haarlem.†   (source)
  • Our SIGINT intercepted communication about a plot to launch a mortar attack on the American Embassy.†   (source)
  • I intercepted the news in code on my radio.†   (source)
  • and the underside of his backpack as though checking for tears or leaks, the daughter staring at skydivers who were hurtling towards a nearby pier and pulling up at the last moment and landing at a sprint, the son testing the rubberized jogger-friendly surface beneath his feet with each step, and then the minute ended and they were intercepted and led away, apparently bewildered, or overawed, for they held hands and did not resist or scatter or run.†   (source)
  • While just about every battle was going down, Army intelligence analysts were intercepting insurgent cell phone communications that were giving a blow-by-blow account.†   (source)
  • Apparently not: the more often pro quarterbacks put the ball up in the air, the less likely it was to be intercepted.†   (source)
  • The information on the cart was from a variety of sources, but to Ryan the most significant were tactical radio intercepts from listening posts on the Pakistani border, and, he gathered, from inside Afghanistan itself.†   (source)
  • She intercepted me on the front porch, leaving from a visit to my mother.†   (source)
  • Fortunately, Mr. Caruso, who ran the local string of Nova Sicilia franchulates that was in the process of beating the pants off of Enrique Cortazar, got wind of these attacks before they happened, probably by intercepting signal intelligence from Mr. Cortazar's fleet of poorly secured cellular phones and CB radios.†   (source)
  • Paul watched her hasten down the walk to the driveway, intent not on meeting but intercepting him.†   (source)
  • This apparatus enabled him to intercept a few coherent messages in the midst of a deafening roar from across the sea.†   (source)
  • Cavalry rode to the Occoquan River to intercept anyone who attempted to cross.†   (source)
  • I had no idea how much it would cost to get to Chicago, and I didn't dare go to the bank and draw out all my money, because I thought Doctor Gordon might well have warned the bank clerk to intercept me if I made any obvious move.†   (source)
  • Minutes later Syd'Quan Thompson ended Houston's final drive by intercepting Schaub, and we had our fourth win of the season.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, Pardee no longer was among the living when we intercepted the courier.†   (source)
  • Finally Abby intercepted, asking them to give him space.†   (source)
  • Jim sent two quarterbacks to the sidelines on stretchers and intercepted a pass and ran it back for a touchdown.†   (source)
  • If worse comes to worse I'll intercept her at her house.†   (source)
  • Ronnie tensed under his arm as Scott veered off to intercept them.†   (source)
  • The Health Minister intercepted them.†   (source)
  • Thank goodness someone reported the notes to Mr. Tushman yesterday, and he opened Auggie's locker and intercepted them before Auggie ever saw them.†   (source)
  • He takes out his ruler and confidently draws two vertical lines, noting points for asymptotes, limits, and intercepts.†   (source)
  • The fake Sebastian probably took them whenever he intercepted him.†   (source)
  • Paul brought the ball down and tried a behind-the-back pass to Ox, and Stealer intercepted the ball and started down-court again.†   (source)
  • You can overtake him—I mean you can intercept him—if you start right on now—cut across the turn, and go through the tunnel.†   (source)
  • intercepted by the hijackers on Route 131 and driven to an old railroad bridge, no longer in use, in a wooded area on the Hallowell-Crenshaw line.†   (source)
  • In the words of a surviving British intelligence report, "every street facing both North and East Rivers has wooden trunks made across ten feet thick filled with earth, in order to intercept any troops that may attempt a landing."†   (source)
  • They're going to get you for intercepting Major Major's correspondence, too.†   (source)
  • I was intercepted by someone who knocked the breath from me—the chief of police.†   (source)
  • Jimmy's face was purple as he came at Max, but the fitlooking blond boy intercepted the little man, stooping to place his hands on Jimmy's shoulders.†   (source)
  • Prior to now, Moody had intercepted all the letters sent by my anxious family and friends.†   (source)
  • Cersei would be displeased to learn that he had intercepted Stark's letter, but his father had sent him here to rule, not to please Cersei.†   (source)
  • He intercepts the bride, coming out unsuspectingly.†   (source)
  • At least a dozen Soviet ships have either been intercepted by U.S. warships or turned back of their own accord.†   (source)
  • He ran like mad, but Campion had got the alarm, you see, and he simply moved round and intercepted him further down the fields.†   (source)
  • Tom hurried to intercept them.†   (source)
  • Abdul intercepted Mortenson on the way to his room, tsk-tsking at the tear, and suggested they visit a tailor.†   (source)
  • She knew Nahuseresh was intercepting her messages.†   (source)
  • He had stepped away from the wall, intercepting her.†   (source)
  • But for Africans intercepted off the coast of Cuba or another Spanish colony, return— to Africa was an expensive proposition.†   (source)
  • A mob of men and women, all screaming and shouting, ran about wildly, crossing each other's paths, and intercepting each other as if deranged.†   (source)
  • No message (at least we intercepted none) reached Warden agreeing to his demand for more troops—but he started moving people out of Complex.†   (source)
  • Then, during an intercepted call to his family in 2010, one of his family members asked him what he was doing for work.†   (source)
  • It especially irritates them because when we built the lookout they sent a company to intercept us, and we destroyed them with our artillery before they crossed the glacier.†   (source)
  • The Germans had intercepted a signal from London about an arms drop.†   (source)
  • Some believe it is creatures from outer space, Martians in flying saucers intercepting and causing planes to crash.†   (source)
  • At this point a liveried footman comes in with a note on a salver and is intercepted almost absent-mindedly by the RESIDENT who takes the note and reads it.†   (source)
  • If Drizzt, at that time in midroll across the table, had realized just how close his form had come to intercepting the twirling war-hammer, he might have had a few choice words for his friend.†   (source)
  • Then we began to intercept reports from a certain clandestine police agency...reports that said you were alive and active in the L.A. area, that it involved families who'd lost loved ones on Flight 353.†   (source)
  • The water stops running and I'm ready to bolt down the hall to intercept her before she comes out, but the door opens before I can get there.†   (source)
  • So why didn't they just intercept it?†   (source)
  • I'll have to intercept the mail.†   (source)
  • I started over to her not knowing what I might say when my father intercepted me and said smiling in Korean, as if he were complimenting me, "She's a steady customer.†   (source)
  • More drama was taking place off the train as his relatives tried to intercept it before he reached Colombo.†   (source)
  • Can the SAPL intercept those missiles?†   (source)
  • In return, Gabriel would be granted complete and total access to France's voluminous files on the thousands of Islamic extremists living within its borders: the watch reports, the e-mail and phone intercepts, the immigration records.†   (source)
  • That means someone intercepted them before you got there.†   (source)
  • He had tried to tell me about it; but then, when I failed to understand, he had felt obliged to leave me in order to intercept and greet his friends.†   (source)
  • It springs from the universe and is the property of God, and the words have been intercepted—on the wing, so to speak—by such mediators as Lao-tzu, Jesus, Gautama Buddha and thousands upon thousands of lesser prophets, including your narrator, who heard the terrible truth of their drumming somewhere between Baltimore and Wilmington and set them down with the fury of a madman sculpting in stone.†   (source)
  • This time ANNIE intercepts her by pouncing on her wrists like a hawk, and her temper boils.†   (source)
  • Here, above where the trees intercepted the sunlight, there were certainties, including certainties of doubt.†   (source)
  • It came to rest, despite her efforts to intercept it, spread listlessly across the breakfast table.†   (source)
  • If the hostile reconnaissance jet came in from a base in Egypt or Albania, he would be in a position to intercept.†   (source)
  • He turned and looked at her, and intercepted the look that passed between the two women.†   (source)
  • Tate intercepted him.†   (source)
  • Marilla intercepted the look and said grimly:   (source)
    intercepted = caught
  • As usual, he intercepted Dorothy on the way home.†   (source)
  • We just can't guarantee owls aren't being intercepted any more!'†   (source)
  • I intercepted with Riptide, but his strike was so powerful, my blade could only deflect it.†   (source)
  • As they approach, Alice will help us intercept their path.†   (source)
  • And yet ...someone had sent those thugs to intercept me in the alley.†   (source)
  • This saying of her father's was reserved for particularly fine tackles and intercepted passes.†   (source)
  • Wormsign is on intercept course, your position, estimated contact twenty-five minutes.†   (source)
  • He naturally reaches for his glass, but I intercept it.†   (source)
  • You'd be eyeballing the intercept and using a thrust vector you can barely control:†   (source)
  • YE: It's because of the messages from the Lord that they intercepted.†   (source)
  • If anyone was going to intercept us, they would have done it before this.†   (source)
  • Now I was the one waiting out on the galena to intercept him if he came.†   (source)
  • By 1995, a quarterback was no more likely to be intercepted than a runner was to fumble the ball.†   (source)
  • Annabeth had intercepted the knife with her own body.†   (source)
  • I stepped to intercept my uncle's strike, but he charged right past me.†   (source)
  • Sato's team fully understood the importance of making an undetected intercept.†   (source)
  • I intercepted Chaol, and he informed me of your 'condition.'†   (source)
  • Well, I was just saying to Ron...what if someone had tried to intercept Hedwig?†   (source)
  • The dozer swiveled in the mud, skidding to intercept, and most of the rocks slammed into its shovel.†   (source)
  • For the moment, are we agreed to position Invincible and Pogy for the intercept?†   (source)
  • Police intercepted all of the family's incoming and outgoing mail.†   (source)
  • Before I could get to history, Mychal intercepted me.†   (source)
  • It read, FOLLOWING ENEMY PROPAGANDA BROADCAST FROM JAPAN HAS BEEN INTERCEPTED.†   (source)
  • "Got anything, Chris?" he asked his radar intercept officer, Lieutenant Commander Christiansen.†   (source)
  • Ethan ducked to one side, trying to get behind me until Annabeth intercepted him.†   (source)
  • I lurched toward her, but Uncle Randolph intercepted me.†   (source)
  • I'll arrange to have some of your messages intercepted by Imperial spies.†   (source)
  • At what point will they no longer be able to intercept Earth?†   (source)
  • This makes the messages intercepted by the Adventists even more important.†   (source)
  • It offered a minimum target profile, but it gave them a simpler geometric intercept solution.†   (source)
  • INTERROGATOR: We have already obtained all the Trisolaran messages intercepted by the Adventists.†   (source)
  • The launch will be fifty-two minutes before the intercept, and it takes twelve minutes.†   (source)
  • INTERROGATOR: Let's get back to those intercepted messages.†   (source)
  • But we could double or even triple our safe intercept range—†   (source)
  • We were able to correct the intercept range with Hermes's attitude thrusters.†   (source)
  • But there's a problem with the intercept velocity.†   (source)
  • As soon as Mark's S2 engine cuts out, we'll know our intercept point and velocity.†   (source)
  • "Easy enough if the intercept is good," Beck said.†   (source)
  • Once we reach intercept, it'll be Beck's job to get Watney.†   (source)
  • "And the intercept has to be within two hundred and fourteen meters," Beck said.†   (source)
  • The intercept distance was going to be way too big.†   (source)
  • Working out our intercept range and velocity ...†   (source)
  • But Hermes would be on a flyby, so the MAV would have to escape Mars gravity entirely to intercept.†   (source)
  • "Distance at intercept will be—" Johanssen stopped and choked.†   (source)
  • That'll bring the intercept range to zero.†   (source)
  • "Intercept velocity will be eleven meters per second ...," she began.†   (source)
  • As you know, the MAV will need to lose some weight to make the intercept.†   (source)
  • Martinez and Lewis stared at Johanssen as she brought up the intercept calculation software.†   (source)
  • "He'll get to orbit," Johanssen said, "but the intercept course may be compromised."†   (source)
  • To intercept Hermes, it'll have to reach escape velocity, but it was only designed to get to orbit.†   (source)
  • He charged towards me, but Carter intercepted him halfway up the slope.†   (source)
  • Sam stepped forward as if to intercept me, but I made one of my famous split-second decisions.†   (source)
  • He fell toward Frank, who made no attempt to intercept him.†   (source)
  • Fadawar successfully intercepted his weapon as well.†   (source)
  • It intercepted the cannonball midair, detonating a massive fireball.†   (source)
  • Thomas ran to intercept William, who led Suzan and two mounted tribe members.†   (source)
  • And how many to intercept these smaller bands of Horde that intend to distract us?†   (source)
  • The soldier who'd gone to intercept the train was standing outside, waist-deep in wildflowers.†   (source)
  • When she neared the door, a nurse stood and intercepted her.†   (source)
  • Jason intercepted it with his sword and deflected it sideways.†   (source)
  • They're intercepting all boat traffic in the Channel.†   (source)
  • Then he intercepted Nasuada as she was departing the festivities.†   (source)
  • She was quickly intercepted by a soldier, who held the struggling hag firmly by the shoulders.†   (source)
  • Emergency intercept requested of two subjects in black rental sedan bound for Logan Airport.†   (source)
  • A ring of BDA mirrors around Earth had intercepted about half, but the other half got through.†   (source)
  • It has been swept thoroughly; there are no intercepts.†   (source)
  • He thought of the grizzly bear his mother had intercepted at the edge of the woods.†   (source)
  • A pinpoint of warmth hit the center of my palm as if I'd intercepted a beam of sunlight.†   (source)
  • "That's why you rushed here to intercept me," Reyna said.†   (source)
  • He rushed to intercept her as she came from the bedroom, still in her long, lacy gown.†   (source)
  • They tried to intercept and failed; I can't say why.†   (source)
  • By the love of God, I hope we are intercepted by then.†   (source)
  • I intercepted him as he walked into the hangar and gave him a crushing bear hug.†   (source)
  • But before his line could tangle with mine, another whizzed out, and Shay intercepted the bird.†   (source)
  • I'll intercept a half a dozen employees of Les Classiques.†   (source)
  • Nasuada's guards moved to intercept the two of them, but Roran shouted, "Let them pass!†   (source)
  • Then Breeze intercepted a pass and fed Jo-Jo on the break.†   (source)
  • The plan is for us to cut you off on either side and intercept you.†   (source)
  • Abby reached out and intercepted it, hiding it in her fist.†   (source)
  • When the Horde moved to intercept, they would break off in a dozen directions to scatter them.†   (source)
  • Yossarian yelled, and bounded forward impulsively to intercept him.†   (source)
  • Guenhwyvar intercepted one, leaping past its master and crashing headlong into the demon hound.†   (source)
  • He must have planned it all and known where Sebastian would be and how to intercept him on the way.†   (source)
  • Set tried to lash out at me, but Carter intercepted him.†   (source)
  • What was your destination when our personnel intercepted you?†   (source)
  • Mr. McDaniels intercepted the sputtering, cursing hag.†   (source)
  • We took a gamble that we'd be able to intercept you.†   (source)
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