Sentence examples for for the pony from inspiring English sources

A friend of his, posing as a wealthy player, came to the stable and offered the stableman a much larger sum for the pony.

Goatman says he needs other zoos to pay 75p a kilo for the pony meat for the trade to be sustainable economically.

"Looking for the Pony," presented by the Vital Theater Company, takes its name from the old joke about the child shown a pile of horse manure who happily starts digging because "there's got to be a pony in here somewhere".

The "big push" for the Pony brand by Pony International will come for the spring 2004 line, said Steve Bannon, a managing partner at The Firm who will be a member of the Pony executive committee.

But when the health-insurance-company lady (Lori Funk) and the patient's lawyer (Debargo Sanyal) in Andrea Lepcio's top-notch "Looking for the Pony" do battle — literally, with wrestling holds — spontaneous applause tends to break out.

Except for the Pony Penning festival, at the end of July, when the Virginia herd is made to swim to a nearby island where the local volunteer Fire Department auctions some of them off, the ponies run free among the pines and scrub in the company of deer, foxes and a colorful convergence of native and migrating birds.

The Avanti's style, performance and compact 2+2 seating area helped pave the way for the pony-car generation, some collectors say.

In one way the storm was lucky for the ponies.

Death saturates the whole endeavour, not least for the ponies and dogs, who "started as an engine and ended as fuel".

Over the past decade, Faulkner says she has "tried everything" to maintain a sustainable market for the ponies in an attempt to ensure their survival.

Despite a neglectful mother and an aunt not above exploiting her 7-year-old niece's gift to gratify her fondness for the ponies, the winsome and wisecracking Annie manages to survive into adulthood and marry.