Sentence examples for Wellington from inspiring English sources

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He writes: Muhannad Fala'ah/Getty Images He wore tattered trousers, muddy wellington boots, a grubby anorak and avoided eye contact.

But in the meantime, in low-lying parts of Britain, wellington boots and sandbags may make wiser investments than houses.

And, indeed, he was surrounded by evidence of disarmament, of a kind: the bodies of militiamen yet to be buried, and a motley collection of prisoners.One of the prisoners, a small, skinny boy named Claude in oversized wellington boots, was being put through his paces by a captured sergeant.

Morgan replaced him but this campaign got off to a disastrous start with heavy defeats handed out by Australia in Melbourne and New Zealand in Wellington, a match that lasted around half the allotted overs in total, before the first win was gained against Scotland in Christchurch.

Merkel kicked off her day with a speech to a joint session of parliament in the royal gallery, which is decorated with the Daniel Maclise portrait of the meeting of the Duke of Wellington and the Prussian field marshal Blücher before the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo.

Colin Graves, the incoming chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board, made Pietersen a live issue again on Sunday when he said a return for the 34-year-old batsman was possible if he scored big runs in county cricket, an unexpected development which came hours after England's nine-wicket thrashing by Sri Lanka in Wellington, the team's third heavy defeat of a demoralising World Cup.

Among the personal accolades, he was player of the tournament at the world junior championship in 1999 and was voted the Ospreys' players' player of the year in 2009-10, having previously played for Toulon after leaving the Hurricanes in Wellington.

Wellington will celebrate 150 years as a capital city with a week of festivities planned for July, and is to provide one of the venues (along with Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Hamilton, Napier and Nelson) for the ICC Cricket World Cup, which New Zealand is co-hosting with Australia from 14 February to 29 March.

Len, was really Lionel Murray, was born in Hadley, Shropshire, educated at Wellington grammar school.

Andrea's pink coffin was decorated with stars and arrived in a horse-drawn carriage, entering and leaving the church to song from family and friends, including her parents Wellington, 38, and Charity, 32.