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  • Part of the southbound exit was barricaded, but three faded orange barrels had been moved to make a driving space. Darkness Becomes Her
  • We escorted them into the camp, passing the guards who had barricaded themselves into the sentry box. Times, Sunday Times
  • We had carers going in but she shouted at them and barricaded the door. The Sun
  • The court heard that, once inside, the defendant shut the front door, barricaded himself in, said he had a 12 bore shotgun and threatened to kill everyone there if they tried to enter.
  • The French had been able to spare but few troops for this point, but they had barricaded the streets of the town and posted a company of chasseurs, seventy-five in number, at the bridge with a mitralleuse. A Journey Through France in War Time
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  • Pimentel, 61, barricaded the road, prompting a lawsuit from the church.
  • It really barricaded me into the closet for a longer time than I should have been.
  • The rioters burnt buses, barricaded the streets and torched their own houses. Times, Sunday Times
  • The march quickly fell apart, not even making it to the heavily barricaded convention centre where delegates were staying.
  • We had carers going in but she shouted at them and barricaded the door. The Sun
  • Mrs Kernan, a widow and his official carer, said she had barricaded him in his bedroom before summoning relatives.
  • Hundreds of prisoners armed with makeshift weapons then barricaded themselves inside the block. Times, Sunday Times
  • Over several hours of negotiations, police tried to call the barricaded man, but he had disconnected his home phone and damaged his cell, Kozak said. Glenwood Springs Post Independent - Top Stories
  • Called "agha mama," or "father uncle," by his guards, Karzai now lives in a relatively modest house with a marble facade on a barricaded street manned by police in downtown Kandahar City. Ahmed Wali Karzai, an ally and obstacle to the U.S. military in Afghanistan
  • There was heavy fighting in Nanning, where our people were barricaded in an old district of the city, with no more than a hundred rifles between us.
  • Large parts of the city centre were barricaded off, and the windows of virtually all shops and department stores were boarded up with wooden or plastic panels.
  • We are now in the dark in this room and we have barricaded all the doors. Times, Sunday Times
  • In Caketown, these include a brittle suburbanite Bruce calls The Matriarch, who has barricaded herself into her house out of fear of a deadly airborne virus.
  • The streets of the old hotel zone were empty as residents barricaded themselves in their homes and tourists cowered inside small hotels. Times, Sunday Times
  • Grassroots peasant activists burned crops, mined and barricaded roads, derailed trains, set fire to buildings, beat up strikebreakers and punctured the tyres of blackleg drivers.
  • Some bystanders barricaded themselves inside nearby shops. Times, Sunday Times
  • These are messy matters corporate chieftains would much rather handle behind closed - or, even better, locked and barricaded - boardroom doors.
  • The corridor leading to the underground rail system was heavily barricaded and manned by starguards while others stood guard around the room.
  • We had carers going in but she shouted at them and barricaded the door. The Sun
  • He requested that the building be barricaded and patrolled hourly by local gardaí.
  • But Baghdad's streets are barricaded, armed and patrolled by vigilantes.
  • The driveway and gate were barricaded with two patrol cars to prevent this very situation.
  • They barricaded themselves inside their house.
  • barricaded the street with burnt-out cars
  • The door to the apartment was barricaded from inside and when Gardai moved in, two shots were fired with a sawn-off shotgun at close range, injuring two Gardai.
  • Dozens of families in the farms around the hamlet have practically barricaded themselves into their homes.
  • The fighters are barricaded into positions with sandbags and are prepared to fight to the death. Times, Sunday Times
  • Then the barricaded rebels of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement greet the dawn with militant anthems and defiant chants.
  • Some bystanders barricaded themselves inside nearby shops. Times, Sunday Times
  • They arrested hundreds of protesters who had barricaded themselves inside. The Sun
  • He had dragged himself away to the office, barricaded himself in, and sunk upon the floor in a gin-soaked nightmare, wherein he died a thousand deaths while the valorous fight went on around him. THE TERRIBLE SOLOMONS
  • That Friday night he ran out of tobacco, threatened to kill himself if he was not given some, assaulted his cellmate and barricaded the cell.
  • The rioters burnt buses, barricaded the streets and torched their own houses. Times, Sunday Times
  • After three days and nights barricaded into his office, Kristall's managing director was exhausted and just a little tetchy.
  • The streets of the old hotel zone were empty as residents barricaded themselves in their homes and tourists cowered inside small hotels. Times, Sunday Times
  • Beckett had complained that he was barricaded into his home by an RUC Landrover which parked against his front door.
  • Below Houston, each street into Soho was barricaded and manned by huddles of cops.
  • The cult has been barricaded in a block of buildings since a shootout with federal agents on 28 February.
  • You see people running from the building there, in addition to the students who were just kind of barricaded inside that -- that building next door. CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2007
  • Three dozen youths had barricaded themselves in with a mattress and furniture but maybe he did not realise how many potential victims cowered inside. The Sun
  • The door wasn't locked; it was heavily barricaded.
  • The door to the apartment was barricaded from inside and when Gardai moved in, two shots were fired with a sawn-off shotgun at close range, injuring two Gardai.
  • When the police arrived he then decided to become violent and barricaded himself into the flat.
  • The fighters are barricaded into positions with sandbags and are prepared to fight to the death. Times, Sunday Times
  • Up to 200 people are thought to have been taken hostage there or were barricaded in their rooms. The Sun
  • One man was shot dead as protesters burnt buses and barricaded roads across the city. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some bystanders barricaded themselves inside nearby shops. Times, Sunday Times
  • They arrested hundreds of protesters who had barricaded themselves inside. The Sun
  • As the block-long pens filled up, police barricaded the blocks leading into the avenue, forcing those trying to join the protest to walk further and further north just to reach it.
  • The armed rebels had barricaded themselves in the old town.
  • And last year a 20-year-old remand prisoner was found hanged, while rioting prisoners barricaded themselves into a cell in August.
  • Hundreds of prisoners armed with makeshift weapons then barricaded themselves inside the block. Times, Sunday Times
  • They heard a great crashing and smashing of things before it gathered beyond the barricaded door breathing stillness and the chill of death and oblivion through the cracks in the door.
  • Hundreds of prisoners armed with makeshift weapons then barricaded themselves inside the block. Times, Sunday Times
  • As the marchers zigged and zagged in search of safe ground, authorities bombarded and barricaded the activists into a drawn-out stalemate that resulted in further arrests. HUFFPOST HILL - Super Committee Democrats Announce What They'll Eventually Cave On
  • One man was shot dead as protesters burnt buses and barricaded roads across the city. Times, Sunday Times
  • Three dozen youths had barricaded themselves in with a mattress and furniture but maybe he did not realise how many potential victims cowered inside. The Sun
  • They barricaded her in with their trolleys so she couldn't escape.
  • I went back into the building and barricaded the door with a vending machine.
  • They barricaded themselves into one area in the landing on the wing causing damage to fixtures and fittings.
  • The road outside the jail was turned into a veritable fortress since last night with both ends barricaded.
  • As of 5 PM Friday, officials still had the block barricaded, meaning the only parking available to shoppers throughout the entire afternoon was in the lots behind the stores on both sides of Front Street, which is also County Road 620 and State Route 28, one of the county's busiest highways. Plainfield fire shuts down Front Street block
  • While most of the world is dead, there are small pockets of survivors that exist in barricaded cities across the globe. EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Finally…the Zombie MMO we were all waiting for.
  • All the streets south of 14th Street have been barricaded off and are being guarded by state policemen.
  • Migration maps were thumbtacked to her apartment walls; encyclopedic census reports barricaded her bed. Strangers at the Feast
  • An armed robber stormed into a high street bank and made off with £1, 600 while police barricaded the building, wrongly believing he was still inside.
  • The cult has been barricaded in a block of buildings since a shootout with federal agents on 28 February.
  • It caused a lot of tension, riots, and they barricaded the cells.
  • The persons invading the San Jose office barricaded themselves in a conference room where they defaced the walls and damaged furniture.
  • Students barricaded gates with burning tyres in an effort to prevent police from gaining access and dispersing the crowds.
  • The activity was highly unusual as the barricaded street leading to her house has been left untended since her house arrest began.
  • The doormen barricaded the club's entrance as the soldiers allegedly tried to get to him.
  • Then we barricaded ourselves in, piled our mattresses against the cell door.
  • The boy barricaded the door to keep the stranger out.
  • One man was shot dead as protesters burnt buses and barricaded roads across the city. Times, Sunday Times
  • About forty prisoners are still barricaded inside the wrecked buildings.
  • When the talks broke down the angry workers barricaded senior management in their offices, deflated their car tyres and disconnected water to the city.
  • Police barricaded the streets in front of the courthouse.
  • Tehaa, alone among the Raiateans, was cragsman enough to venture the perilous way, and dawn found him in a rock-barricaded nook, a hundred yards to the right of Grief and Mauriri. THE DEVILS OF FUATINO
  • In the first major court case involving the Class A drug in the city for years, Geraldine Kelly, prosecuting, said the building in Cromer Street had been barricaded.
  • The dominant available images prescribe a particularly parochial set of options: a barricaded and insulated rejectionist leadership; pitiful masses suffering in teeming refugee camps or squalid, quarantined communities; and, most prominent of all, terrorist suicide bombers, fanatical malevolent creatures, bereft of normal human motivation and well beyond our comprehension. January « 2008 « Bill Ayers
  • Striking construction workers rallied in Lima and barricaded the Pan-American Highway, blocking the movement of passenger vehicles and trucks.
  • Three dozen youths had barricaded themselves in with a mattress and furniture but maybe he did not realise how many potential victims cowered inside. The Sun
  • We are now in the dark in this room and we have barricaded all the doors. Times, Sunday Times
  • Then the barricaded rebels of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement greet the dawn with militant anthems and defiant chants.
  • The soldiers barricaded the streets to prevent an attack.
  • We are now in the dark in this room and we have barricaded all the doors. Times, Sunday Times
  • There were several lines of trenches dug into the area outside the armory, stretching from the pavement all across the hundred yards of lawn to the barricaded doors.
  • She's barricaded herself into an office on the fourth floor.
  • How does that explain barricaded subway stations or these fucking creatures?
  • The police barricaded off the entrance to the square.
  • Up to 200 people are thought to have been taken hostage there or were barricaded in their rooms. The Sun
  • Despite This Day withdrawing the article and apologising, protestors burned down their offices, barricaded the streets with burning tyres, and began looting and burning homes and businesses.
  • The street where the President lives is always barricaded
  • Up to 200 people are thought to have been taken hostage there or were barricaded in their rooms. The Sun
  • The streets of the old hotel zone were empty as residents barricaded themselves in their homes and tourists cowered inside small hotels. Times, Sunday Times
  • I understand that she was almost barricaded into her home based upon perceived fear by [the patient] that she would be victimised or harassed.
  • The soldiers barricaded the streets to prevent an attack.
  • In another instance, a family with young children was barricaded into a room while a gang ransacked the house.
  • Some time in 1891, police barricaded a quiet street in Handsworth and raided the home of a Mr Cavargna, a soft-spoken insurance agent, aged 55.
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  • As Hackberry walked deeper into the shadows, the sunlight that had fractured on the ridgeline disappeared, and he could see the tents and the pickup truck and the SUV and the mountainside in detail, and he realized the mistake he had made: You never allow your enemy to become what is known as a barricaded suspect. Rain Gods
  • At least 11 of the 15 small shops surrounding the square are barricaded with graffiti-covered metal grilles.
  • They barricaded themselves inside their house.
  • He had barricaded himself in the living-room, where he was sitting cross-legged in the middle of the floor.
  • The rioters burnt buses, barricaded the streets and torched their own houses. Times, Sunday Times
  • Streets have been barricaded with burning tyres and at least one Iraqi has been wounded, although it is unclear how this happened.
  • Those doors are deliberately barricaded before murderers set fire to the building.
  • They arrested hundreds of protesters who had barricaded themselves inside. The Sun
  • The scouts barricaded themselves behind tree trunks and threw up breastworks of fallen trees.

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