Example sentences of "the ball [adv prt] [prep] the " 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 | By a fluke , Thomas managed to kick the ball up into the air and her eyes followed Vitor as he leapt to catch it . |
| 3 | Deane picked the ball up outside the area and run diagonally at goal , beat 2 or 3 defenders and took it past another but the ball was running away and Speed came in and hit it with his right foot . |
| 4 | He picked the ball up on the edge of the Ipswich penalty area , turned and struck a wonderful left-footed shot over the rooted Forrest and into the top corner of the net for his 18th goal of the season . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 ! ! ) |
| 7 | The subtleties of the contest — running off the ball , watching an individual contest between two players rather than following the ball around through the camera lens — may be sacrificed but these failings have not deterred the audience . |
| 8 | Gloucester beat Bristol 29–15 after both sides decided to throw the ball around in the sun at Kingsholm . |
| 9 | ‘ We like to play the ball around like the Continentals , but we still work as hard as any team in England . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Prudhoe , who had called for the original cross , could only tip the ball on to the bar and McCarthy headed the rebound home . |
| 12 | Prudhoe , who had called for the original cross , could only tip the ball on to the bar and McCarthy headed the rebound home . |
| 13 | O'Connell 's header found Graham completely unmarked inside the penalty box but Goram did enough to touch the ball on to the bar . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A ruck was set up to the left of the Cambridge posts and , when Smith flicked the ball out to the right , Hein charged through on the overlap to score behind the posts . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A bemused Southall found himself cautioned for time-wasting and a few seconds later had to pick the ball out of the net . |
| 18 | Campbell surged between two defenders , shrugging off Pearce 's challenge , then drove the ball out of the reach of Sealey , the on-loan goalkeeper from Aston Villa back at Highfield Road after an absence of nine years . |
| 19 | Watch out for the credits at the beginning of the programme : I 'm willing to bet my next season 's average that the batsman hitting the ball out of the ground will be Australian , while the batsman being clean-bowled by Merv Hughes 's moustache will be English . |
| 20 | ‘ Our keeper picked the ball out of the net twice in the first half and did n't have much else to handle . ’ |
| 21 | Charlotte , her eyes on Albert who was taking her attention , asked him rather half-heartedly to desist , but the boy threw the ball out of the window . |
| 22 | I had a struggle getting the ball out of the scrum |
| 23 | Well done , I , very good , I had a struggle getting the ball out of the scrum , right |
| 24 | His mistakes usually make Lukic pick the ball out of the net . |
| 25 | Notts County will disagree with that after picking the ball out of the net 5 times . |
| 26 | He has n't , but on this occasion and for the second time with just over twenty minutes played , the Pisa goalkeeper was picking the ball out of the back of the net . |
| 27 | I kept throwing the ball back to the wrong player . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He insisted : ‘ In the 18-yard box you should be allowed to pass the ball back to the goalkeeper . |
| 30 | The ones I 've got at the moment are having a little difficulty in working things out , one does n't realise that it 's not best to try to head the ball back to the goalie when there 's a man breathing down the back of his neck , the other has n't been able to find his brain and the oldest one of the lot is always injured . |