(1) In the basket are snakes he has trapped himself: a cobra and an earth boa .

(2) Whenever I am in the presence of a star, my chest tightens like a boa around my heart as I think of some witty lead into a conversation with them.

(3) Stuck to my bed, muscles rigid as a flexed boa , sweat pooling in the depression in my chest, I dreamt in horror of the two headed bull.

(4) Yeah, it's about time rock started to embrace its feminine side - will we ever see a rock star happy to wear a boa or make-up, or perhaps mince about the stage in a catsuit?

(5) A pet snake - a Californian boa - survived for a year in an empty house in Belgium after being left behind by mistake when the owner moved.

(6) She had on long white gloves and a feather boa , as she sauntered onto the scene clutching her handkerchief she pretended to faint, and drop the hankie.

(7) He or she is coiled up, at head-height, and even when our guide pulls the branches in which the snake is nestling down a little to give us better view, the boa remains in steadfast slumber.

(8) The strange time overlap represented by this show reaches its height as Tessie tosses her white fur boa about and sings about her ÔÇÿcurvesÔÇÖ while stroking her huge abdomen.

(9) His low voice muttered wistfully looking further down the path and seeing the wall that encased the palace like a boa and it's prey.

(10) The boa was cut up and its meat, a local delicacy apparently, distributed to those present for consumption.

(11) There was a feather boa around her neck as she played and I sang ÔÇÿgood-bye, good-bye foreverÔÇÖ and it was a wonderful evening.

(12) His unnamed female counterpart - a common boa - is longer at 7ft, but apparently has a sweeter personality.

(13) She slowly peels back her boa and unceremoniously tosses it to the side.

(14) Sauntering around the black and white checked floor, I spun my boa attractively at anyone who gave me a second glance.

(15) The coastal rosy boa , a gray snake with brown longitudinal stripes, occasionally shows itself.

(16) But instead I have gone with a more traditional flapper look, tassely little dress, feather boa , long black gloves, cigarette holder, fishnet stockings.

(17) The boa , which could grow up to 13 ft, or four metres long and live to be 30, is now being looked after in an animal haven in Surrey.

(18) Turns out, he said, that a boa will kill you only if you're mean to it or take its babies.

(19) A few times, after he had missed his jump, he glared at me out of the corner of his eye, like a boa gauging its next victim.

(20) You know about the whale, but not about the boa down in Argentina.