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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A dawn raid by about 200 heavily armed law officers bagged more than 30 members and associates of the white-supremacist prison gang.
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Almost his first action was a post-election dawn raid in July 1983 on departmental budgets.
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Seven pistols were discovered under a bed in a dawn raid on a flat.
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They also recovered some stolen ammunition during a dawn raid on this flat in Notting Hill.