Sentence examples for a ditch at from inspiring English sources

Mr. Russell thanked Mr. John for their collaboration, saying he "found me in a ditch at the side of a highway of life and took me up to the high stages with big audiences, and treated me like a king".

As a young girl in England in 1952 I was nervously smoking my first cigarette with a friend, hiding in a ditch at the far end of the school hockey field at lunchtime — coughing and laughing quite loudly, I am sure.

The sergeant got very wound up when he came to the bit about the boy breaking into the German man's house, finding the shotgun and the belt of cartridges, and then creeping back toward his own house, hiding in a ditch at the end of the garden and waiting for the opportunity to shoot.

We were talking about it last night and he said: 'Well, I still wasn't last up the mountain.'" That competitive spirit in the face of adversity shone through for Thomas – the speed with which he got back on his bike after a high-speed dive into a ditch at Gap was stunning – and the other scions of Ellingworth's academy: Stannard, Kennaugh, Rowe and Cavendish.

The sport is littered with riders being robbed of their chance for glory by mechanical mischance – just think back to some of the most famous bike tosses in cycling history: Bradley Wiggins dumping his Pinarello in the 2013 Giro del Trentino or Bjarne Riis throwing thousands of pounds worth of time-trial bike into a ditch at Disneyland, Paris during the 1997 Tour de France.

A few remains of carbonized rice were uncovered in a ditch at this site.

Perhaps they should after this Michael Choo Cabin crew have access to emergency locator transmitters, but these are electronic distress beacons designed to be used in the event of a ditching at sea or forced landing rather than in flight.

Before then, the oldest specimens (beetle carapaces) came from a ditch deposit at the Ikegamisone site (ca. 2000 BP).

I didn't want people coming and thinking, 'I don't know enough about Iris Murdoch,' or, 'I should have read up before going to see this.' " In the most powerful scene in the movie, Ms. Dench and Mr. Broadbent are lying in a muddy ditch at the side of a road after a car accident caused by Iris's sudden attempt to leap out of the moving vehicle.

This was the place where Mrs. Fritz once asked Arnie to hit a tee shot across a drainage ditch at the No. 6 hole when he was 6 years old.

Rees Jones, Robert's son, did more work before the 1991 Open, including turning a drainage ditch at No. 16 into a stream.