(1) And just a few games shy of making history, the Warriors blew a 17-point lead and fell to the Minnesota Timberwolves – another team that didn’t even come close to making the playoffs – after forcing the game into overtime.
(2) The hype of thewhole week blew up in one overreaction from me.
(3) When a row about this blew up in March 2010 , just before the election, the prime minister claimed only to have been aware about it for less than month.
(4) One of the other attackers in the car is believed to have been Brahim Abdeslam, a Belgian jihadi who blew himself up on Paris’s Boulevard Voltaire.
(5) To keep the statistics rolling, last season's best-viewed match came in April when Chelsea blew the title race wide open by defeating Liverpool 2-0 at Anfield – it was watched by more than 3 million people on Sky.
(6) The final whistle blew and virtually all the Scarborough fans ran on to the pitch to 'celebrate'.
(7) "When it blew up you could see the shock wave hit the wheat field, boom," he said.
(8) The row blew up after Luzhkov criticised the Kremlin last week, questioning Medvedev's decision to suspend a Moscow-St Petersburg road-building project.
(9) The Sounders tried to keep the deal secret, but fans with access to Twitter and cellphone cameras blew the lid off.
(10) Perhaps, too, it’s the reason why another great Scottish poet, Hugh MacDiarmid, blew hot and cold about him.
(11) As the final whistle blew, Wenger, suddenly wreathed in smiles, hugged his staff, players and even Alan Pardew, a managerial rival with whom he has not always enjoyed the most cordial of technical area relations.
(12) Two factors aligned for the extreme low in the snow pack last year: winter temperatures too warm to allow formation of snow in the Sierras, especially at lower elevations, and a phenomenon known as the “Ridiculously Resilient Ridge”, the high pressure atmospheric formation over the north Pacific that blew storm tracks off course, preventing rains from reaching California.
(13) Osborne also blew a £600m hole in Labour’s plans to fund its cut in tuition fees from £9,000 to £6,000, taking the money to fund his savings package.
(14) Steel bands, choirs and dancers performed while the mass of people, many with their children, blew horns and whistles as they passed alongside parliament.
(15) "At first I was taken aback by how quickly this thing blew up."
(16) As Wayne Rooney placed the ball on the penalty spot, blew out his cheeks and prepared for the moment he had been waiting for all this time, Wembley lit up with a thousand and one flash bulbs.
(17) Marian Gaborik's goal meant that Chicago blew three leads in the game, something their fans can chew on during the intermission.
(18) Their average age was 23.5, with the oldest being Crawley father Abdul Waheed Majeed, 41, who blew himself up driving a truck bomb during a prison break in February.
(19) A former undercover spy who blew the whistle on abuses of a covert Scotland Yard unit has offered to speak to an inquiry if police chiefs withdraw their threat to investigate him for breaking the Official Secrets Act.
(20) At least two people – a woman, identified by police as Abaaoud’s cousin, Hasna Aitboulahcen, who apparently blew herself up by detonating an explosive vest, and a man hit by multiple gunshots and a grenade – were known to have died in the seven-hour assault on the rundown apartment block .