Sentence examples for towards a ball from inspiring English sources

The club's tests had shown that he was fine to play but when he burst towards a ball in the 59th minute, with Ryan Bennett coming across to challenge, he pulled up dramatically.

In the couple of remaining ticks and tocks, Turkey keeper Rustu Recber – at fault for Croatia's goal after going walkabout towards a ball he was never going to reach – launched a long free-kick straight down the middle of the pitch towards the Croatia area.

Slackened rules on big hitting caused a raft of injuries, not least in the opening scramble which had replaced the mundane coin toss: two opposing players ran from 20 yards towards a ball waiting in the centre and the one to grab it secured possession for their team.

Video clips that indicated a causal implication (example sequence: an athlete running towards a ball – cut – a flying ball) produced higher false-alarm rates for pictures displaying the athlete kicking the ball than video clips that did not imply any causation.

Gameplay like running towards a ball in tennis was excluded to maintain simplicity.

With Ince absent from the side at that time as punishment for pulling out of the Umbro Cup in the summer of 1995, Venables was leaning towards a ball-playing central-midfield partnership of Redknapp and Gascoigne at Euro 96.

Eduard took his underwear off, and threw them towards me in a ball.

Weiters cruses a ball towards the gap in right-center.

Di Maria, on the edge of the area, fizzes a ball towards the top left.

8.30pm BST 29 min: Giroud turns Senderos, 20 yards out, then blooters a ball towards the top-left corner.

Ichiro is up to more of his old tricks, hitting a ball towards Andino but the O's 2B is totally psyched out by his speed.