Sentence examples for empty pitch from inspiring English sources

A try seemed inevitable when the prop Tonga'uiha, a totemic figure throughout for Northampton, suddenly emerged with the ball and an empty pitch in front of him.

Half-time was 15 minutes of watching an empty pitch and listening to fans chatting about the weather and eating pies.

A match against Dawlish Generals was cancelled at the last minute and a number of their players – including Johnson – still turned up, to find nothing but a few Crewe players training on an empty pitch.

The new citizens enjoyed being photographed in the stands with the pitch below - even though the TV cameras were not allowed to film the empty pitch because of some extraordinary concern that this would be in breach of the sponsorship rights sold by Wembley.

And at this very second I'm listening to random French conversation darting out of my speakers as the BetFair internet broadcast quite strangely just leaves us hanging there among the crowd staring at an empty pitch... oh, and now awful Europoop trance is blaring out of the stadium".

— were followed by a tracking shot of Don leaving the set and walking (alone!) across the empty, pitch-black soundstage next door.

Litter drifts around empty pitches, wasps hover near overflowing bins and dogs bark outside each embattled caravan.

A dozen empty pitches that already have planning approval have been offered to Dale Farm by a landowner near Stowmarket in Suffolk, but residents will need more.

Charlie Austin looks out of the window at Queens Park Rangers' training ground and points across the empty pitches stretching into the distance as he tries to do justice to the scale of Michael Owen's Manor House Stables in Cheshire, where he recently paid a visit and was blown away by everything he took in.

Japan is playing to its strengths as a technological powerhouse, proposing to broadcast live, full-scale 3D holographic games on empty pitches across the world.

The stands are empty; the pitch, still sodden and scarred from recent international rugby union clashes, is unused.