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  • Officers from the police's Central e-Crime Unit arrested the teenager in what they describe as a "pre-planned intelligence-led operation" on Wednesday.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • As well as Mr Duggan, a police officer was also shot in Thursday's incident, which happened in what was called a "pre-planned" event, under Operation Trident, which investigates gun crime in London's African and Caribbean communities.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • As well as Mr Duggan, a police officer was also shot in Thursday's incident, which happened in what was called a "pre-planned" event, under Operation Trident, which investigates gun crime in the African and Caribbean communities.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • A former medical student was sentenced Tuesday to 13 years in prison for using a Taser to attack a pregnant woman in a crime that a Montgomery County judge called a "pre-planned reign of terror."

    The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - washingtonpost.com Dan Morse 2011

  • Indeed, as the Los Angeles Times points out, "Once largely relegated to slips of the tongue during live events, censored cursing has evolved into a pre-planned, or at least largely expected, punch line that's network-approved and no longer lowbrow."

    Daniel Cubias: What the !#$@%*?: Will the Rise of Spanish Redefine Indecency? Daniel Cubias 2011

  • Indeed, as the Los Angeles Times points out, "Once largely relegated to slips of the tongue during live events, censored cursing has evolved into a pre-planned, or at least largely expected, punch line that's network-approved and no longer lowbrow."

    Daniel Cubias: What the !#$@%*?: Will the Rise of Spanish Redefine Indecency? Daniel Cubias 2011

  • A pre-planned and rehearsed flash mob just sounds so wrong.

    Glee Flash Mob Hits Seattle This Saturday « PubliCola 2010

  • Indeed, as the Los Angeles Times points out, "Once largely relegated to slips of the tongue during live events, censored cursing has evolved into a pre-planned, or at least largely expected, punch line that's network-approved and no longer lowbrow."

    Daniel Cubias: What the !#$@%*?: Will the Rise of Spanish Redefine Indecency? Daniel Cubias 2011

  • During the interval Newcastle's forwards coach, Paul Moriarty, told a television interviewer that Brookes, who had struggled against Brian Mujati, was being given a "couple of minutes 'break"? implying that his substitution and subsequent reintroduction five minutes after the break had been pre-planned.

    Newcastle substitutions against Northampton investigated by RFU Ian Malin 2010

  • Frustrated in his pre-planned division of the kingdom, he kicks away the map in disgust and snatches a coronet off Cordelia's head with a savage cruelty.

    King Lear – review 2011

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