Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj] metres " in BNC.
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| 1 | The teachers are forced to cancel the 800 metres when the other competitors all withdraw rather than be humiliated by being beaten by me and my Mum is moved to tears of joy and pride as I win the 4 × 100 metres relay race on my own . |
| 2 | The Seoul 100 metres silver medallist , who had won the 200 metres unpressed in 21.30sec on Saturday , had more formidable opposition in the 60 metres from Michael Rosswess . |
| 3 | More recently , Mike McFarlane had won the 60 metres the previous year in Athens . |
| 4 | Using a scale a one centimetre representing a hundred metres So that 'll be nine centimetres . |
| 5 | Yates blamed father Mike 's coaching after he failed to reach the 1500 metres final . |
| 6 | RICHARD Nerurkar and Paul Evans defied the tough conditions to reach the 10,000 metres final , but Eamonn Martin missed out . |
| 7 | ‘ Imagine a 100 metres runner finding bricks and potholes in his lane when all the other lanes are normal . ’ |
| 8 | Here they were , parked a thousand metres up the dough-shaped mountain , huddled in Ellen 's Fiat 500 because despite the sun the wind outside was wicked . |
| 9 | Jim Campbell dominated the 5,000 metres winning in 14.15.3 , but his Annadale team-mate Davy Wilson had a off-day and finished a long was behind in second place on 14.47 . |
| 10 | Caribbean interest in athletics has been enlivened by the Olympic success in 1976 of Don Quarrie of Jamaica in the 200 metres and Hasely Crawford of Trinidad and Tobago who dominated the 100 metres event in the mid-1970s . |
| 11 | As it turned out , I went to Cosford and did run the 60 metres . |
| 12 | ONE of the happiest men in Basildon was Joe Mills , an Essex University student from Harlow , who claimed the 800 metres title by just four-hundredths of a second in the Championships ' best race . |
| 13 | Buster Watson was expected to win the 100 metres , but I came through and clocked 10.4 seconds for a personal best and a county record , which still stands . |
| 14 | Vicki Jamison , of Lagan Valley , had a double in 100 and 400 hurdles while Bobby Farren , of Sparta , lead all the way to win the 5000 metres in 14 minutes 11.87 with Noel McMonagle winning the B race . |
| 15 | Sharron Davies ' bid to win the 400 metres individual medley title for a record sixth time will be watched with added interest now that she has been given the opportunity to swim the event in Barcelona next month . |
| 16 | The kite string is making an angle of forty degrees there and it 's got a hundred metres of the line payed out . |
| 17 | Would his lungs bake , and his eyes poach , and his skin crisp to crackling before he had even fallen or slid a hundred metres ? |
| 18 | One theory is that the oil has sunk , and is drifting in globules a few metres below the surface of the water . |
| 19 | Cram , who hopes to win a 1500 metres place in Barcelona , won by a comfortable five seconds . |
| 20 | They ran for the shelter of a large chunk of dislodged temple that had fallen a few metres away . |
| 21 | posts are erected every hundred metres , right ? |
| 22 | Carl Lewis has called the 100 metres ‘ ten seconds going on ten years ’ . |
| 23 | Elisabeth walked the few metres down the path to the round dolmen . |
| 24 | Not quite the same as Ed Moses breaking the 400 metres best while running over hurdles , maybe , but quite an achievement nevertheless . |
| 25 | The Hunters moved with a distorted slow-motion gait through the corridors of the abandoned station , occasionally taking off and flying a few metres . |
| 26 | Ben Johnson improved in four years from being a skinny undersized 15-year-old to running the 100 metres in 10.25 and becoming one of the world 's leading juniors — on nothing more exceptional than plenty of food , regular training and competitive instinct . |
| 27 | Grindley may have his fate in his own hands , with Black spurning the chance to run tonight and deciding to run the 200 metres in this weekend 's Pearl British Championships at Crystal Palace . |
| 28 | She had not walked a hundred metres before she tripped over a loose stone and went crashing over a steep overhang . |
| 29 | You can start vibrating them as soon as your have laid a few metres . |
| 30 | I had my problem hamstring and knew that I had n't had the necessary training to run a 200 metres after a 100 and a relay . |