Example sentences of "the ball [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pumped the ball over to the far post where Whitton finished off , heading past Alan Kelly from eight yards . |
| 2 | He picked the ball up on the halfway line and strode to the edge of the area , where a mix-up between Richard Hall and Ken Monkou allowed him to run on and beat Tim Flowers . |
| 3 | ‘ At Elland Road I was expected to go and win the ball and that was about all they liked ! ! — get the ball up to the big front men and look around for the knock downs ’ ( Batts obviously did nt look very hard cos he did nt find many ! ! ) |
| 4 | From the resulting corner , Paul Simpson 's corner , Andy Melville flicked the ball on at the near post , Martin Foyle 's header hit the under side of the bar and bounced away . |
| 5 | Pickering lost the ball on the edge of his own area allowing Gooding to thread the ball through for the unchallenged Maskell to shoot home . |
| 6 | Playing one of his few games in goal for Scotland , the Perth-born keeper , rolled the ball out to the experienced Manchester City fullback Willie Donachie ; with a shot of slide-rule perfection , Donachie lobbed the stranded Blyth , scoring a perfect own goal which gave Wales a fortunate draw . |
| 7 | Chelsea might have increased their lead 15 minutes later , but Wise elected to shoot across the face of goal rather than pull the ball back to the well-positioned Fleck . |
| 8 | I kept throwing the ball back to the wrong player . |
| 9 | If I were playing tennis , I would put the ball back in the hon. Gentleman 's court by asking whether he thinks that those claims are genuine because they have been put through someone 's letter box and because they ask the recipient to sign the form and post it back . |
| 10 | Hand 's team , however , replied impressively seven minutes later when Maskell , transfer-listed at his own request after scoring 33 goals last season , scored his first of this , Cecere laying the ball off to the ambitious young man whose crisp drive was a powerful argument for a rise in status . |
| 11 | In the next attack Toman again ran at the defence and laid the ball off for the supporting Les McJannet ten yards out , but the full back was denied by a last ditch tackle . |
| 12 | He tap-loaded the next cartridge , not bothering to use the cumbersome ramrod , but just slamming the rifle 's butt hard on the ground in hope that the blow would jar the ball down to the loose charge . |
| 13 | Micky Bennett 's free-kick was flicked on by Gary Blissett and Allon steered the ball in at the far post . |
| 14 | Who else but the irrepressible Cowan who knocked the ball in at the far post after an excellent build-up involving Gregg Davidson , Peter Murray , Russell and Sandy Fraser who supplied the final pass . |
| 15 | While there was nothing extraordinary about the goal itself , Chapman turning the ball in at the near post after Clough had driven an indirect free-kick low through a crowd of players , the circumstances in which the kick had been given were a little odd and left Everton looking apoplectic . |
| 16 | Fiona Lee made it 2–2 when she squeezed the ball in at the near post , but Shorney restored Slough 's advantage with her second penalty after Crook had stopped the ball illegally . |
| 17 | Rocastle continued to play brilliantly and it was he who crossed the ball in for the third . |
| 18 | Boyd took the ball in from the one yard line to reduce the Tornadoes lead to one point . |