1.  Put it there!

2.  There was complete silence.

3.  There was an ominous silence.

4.  There was a short, ominous silence.

5.  Never go there alone at night.

6.  A baby born out of wedlock was a horrible sin for which there was no forgiveness.

7.  A barn owl usually lays an egg a day or every other day until there is a clutch of four to six.

8.  A basic task in political analysis is to determine whether there are some criteria by which political systems can be classified.

9.  A bell sounded somewhere in the house but there was no response.