Perhaps Michael Morpurgo can let his formidable imaginative powers stray back another hundred years from the Great War, and take us into the yard of the Chateau of Hougoumont where – on another June 18 - the outnumbered, red-coated Coldstream guards fought valiantly to close the wooden gates against hordes of Napoleon's finest and by so doing turned the tide of the battle.
Along with around 1,300 other men, women and children, Adeline has taken refuge in the yard of the Nativité Church in Kaga Bandoro, now an informal settlement for people who have fled their homes because of widespread violence.
He used to take the lorry to the yard of the National Coal Board, where he bagged coal and took it round to his customers in the neighbourhood.
Perhaps the council may start to take notice given the yards of coverage generated by last night's victory, all promoting the name of Northampton.
A flicker of wind, a sudden gust across the yard, takes the pages out of her hand; she doesn't even have to toss them.
The younger boy has stood strong and taken to the yard for hours of play, shunning such electronic distractions, and we were thankful and proud.
There was this Islander with a long ratty walking around the yard taking the piss out of everyone.
2 Foot Yard took the uncategorizability of the evening about as far as it could go, way out on a limb; and managed the acrobatic feat of pulling it off with music at once bizarre and compelling (although the lyrics were hard to follow on a first hearing).
It can take 45 minutes to whirl the yards of white cotton bandage around her arms, her legs and her stomach.
A false-start penalty on Keller — one of three on the team — pushed them back 5 yards and took the ball out of the hands of Tebow, who, it appeared, was going to score his first touchdown as a Jet.
