(1) He studied the creature carefully, feeling the texture of its skin on its unmarked cheek with the pad of his fingers, keeping the claws well away from it.

(2) Natasha left me with a pad of paper and some writing utensils, some colored wax, and I've taken to drawing.

(3) She then heard the soft pad of Alexia's feet across the hall floor as she made her way to the kitchen.

(4) He could sit down with a drawing pad and sketch out almost every movement of a game.

(5) I tore a sheet of paper from the pad and began my message.

(6) The police raided my pad

(7) Her hands fell limply into her lap and the drawing pad slipped to the floor, sheets of paper spilling out around her feet.

(8) The pad is three inches thick, a third of which is closed-cell foam.

(9) Unlike road cars that usually use steel brake discs and an organic pad material, F1 cars use carbon discs and carbon pads.

(10) The soft pad of papyrus reed sandals made me turn around.

(11) Conran originally planned to turn the house into a bachelor pad - the basement was to be a party room but is now a family room.

(12) The two males held their silence as she finished, all the noise ceased apart from the soft pad of hooves in the night air.

(13) There she could see the headquarters very clearly, and all of the different vehicles parked around it, and the helicopter pad .

(14) Bend your thumb across your palm, touching the tip of your thumb to the pad of your hand just below your pinky finger.

(15) The pad shapes itself to your leg and the bottom can go inside a sock.

(16) Each was bound along the left ledge with the kind of rubbery glue used to bind a pad of writing paper and featured jokes and an occasional smidgen of story.

(17) Cut the pad shapes to form placemats and arrange them on your table.

(18) Fold a paper towel or cloth to make a thick pad , as large as the label.

(19) A pad of cotton wool

(20) She sketched something on a big white pad