Sentence examples for on the ball only from inspiring English sources

Ashe gets his racquet on the ball only twice.

Three Bills players converged on the ball, only to crash into each other and drop it.

Before Leicester played Racing in the semi-final, they resolved not to give the fly-half Dan Carter any time on the ball only to find that in the early stages it was the scrum-half, Maxime Machenaud, they needed to pay attention to.

Don't let your teammates discourage you, focus on the ball only.

Remember, the Bills put together elite numbers in 2014 on that side of the ball, only to falter when their defensive-minded head coach came on board.

Australia led 6-3 after 23 minutes through two Leali'ifano penalties, both given against Mako Vunipola for collapsing but rarely in recent years has an attacking team been penalised so regularly at the breakdown: when Ben Mowen was blown after releasing the tackler, getting back on his feet and contesting for the ball only to be shoved by an opponent, it summed up the swing from the previous week.

Benoît August overthrew and Luke Narraway caught the ball, only to knock on with the line at his mercy.

Two minutes of stoppage-time had been played when Lee Byrne found space down the left: after exchanging passes with Jonny Vaughton he chipped to the line where Charlie Amesbury, a replacement for the injured England wing David Strettle, who is set today for a third operation in 14 months on the same metatarsal, gathered the ball only to spill it over his own line under contact from Byrne.

Hedgecock carried the ball only once on a handoff this season.

The Jets did not try to run again on that drive, and Martin got the ball only eight more times.

His club clipped a branch on his backswing, and he advanced the ball only about 40 yards, still in the deep rough.