Sentence examples for a ditch at the 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".

Worries over steep Medicaid cuts and how many people could potentially lose protections or their health coverage altogether drove the GOP effort into a ditch at the end of July, when BCRA failed by seven votes.

A man has been arrested on charges of threatening President Clinton with explosives that were found in a ditch at the Eugene airport before Mr. Clinton was to arrive on June 13.

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.

McDowell, who fell from the lead at last month's Players Championship with a closing 79, dropped more shots at the second and fourth before going from the rough and into a ditch at the 433-yard fifth for another double bogey.

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

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.

The victim's father was certain that he saw Bundy in a ditch at a construction site on the nearby UPS campus the morning his daughter disappeared.

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 van ended up on its roof in a ditch at Pikins Crossing near Carno at 12 35 GMT.