Sentence examples for prevent the ball from inspiring English sources

On the first chance, Gao barely held on to prevent the ball from crossing the goal line.

In the last Ashes series the instructions to ground staff were that they left the outfield as long as possible in order to help prevent the ball cutting up.

A widespread view within football is that Champion was wrong on two counts to make his claim – because Suarez sought to withdraw his arm to prevent the ball hitting it and used his own trademark celebration in innocence having scored.

George Burgess, so impressive so far on debut, drives outside of the 10 but from the kick deep Billy Slater does brilliantly to prevent the ball bouncing out for a head & feed to England.

Kidderminste's goalkeeper, Danny Lewis, seemed certain to paw the ball away but, back-pedalling, he lost his footing and could not prevent the ball hitting the inside of the post and bouncing over the line.

57th over: India 177-6 (Dravid 104, Mishra 13) Mishra gets a big step in against Swann, with his forward defensive solid enough to prevent the ball popping off the pad and into a danger area.

I don't know how high they're going, but maybe it'll prevent the balls from hitting my car every day".

When executing a tackle the aim is to dominate the contact situation and prevent the ball-carrier from gaining territory and retaining the ball.

Tie the string off at the end of each strand, to prevent the balls from sliding off.

Only Moss's punch prevented the ball from reaching Heskey and resulted in the corner that led to the goal.

The conflict was this: A split-finger is usually gripped to reduce backspin on the ball because backspin prevents the ball from dropping.