Sentence examples for a block the from inspiring English sources

After we drove less than a block, the local police pulled us over.

But within a block, the officer and the suspects crossed paths again.

But within a block, the downpour had rolled off my waterproof jacket and soaked my jeans through.

But when a stutterer is experiencing a block, the awkwardness, embarrassment, even pain may be felt also by the listener.

On almost all issues, because many do not attend regularly and crossbenchers and bishops never vote as a block, the coalition can ensure victory with 180 votes.

Quinn is a recruitment consultant who currently lives "a football kick from the electorate", just a block the wrong side of Alexandra Drive.

Most Tory MPs also realise that a block-the-fire-station blackmail strategy, unleashed at the height of a global economic crisis, is risky.Instead, a supposedly safer wheeze is generating enthusiasm: to head into the next general election promising a formal renegotiation of British ties with Europe, with the results to be put to a "validating referendum".

In the A-block the 20 auditory stimuli were randomly presented under the instruction to categorize the emotion expressed by the music.

"I pushed the Cadillac a block up the street.

Place a block at the end of the redstone.

The west as a block - the USA and Europe - represents slightly less than 15% of the world's population, but its consumption far outstrips most of the rest of the world, with one study finding that the US, Europe and Japan together suck up 80% of the world's natural resources.