(1) Ministers can glean vital gossip about cabinet reshuffles if they keep on the right side of their drivers, who form the most high-class grapevine in Britain as they wait in the Speaker's courtyard at Westminster while their charges vote in the Commons.
(2) Its buildings, arranged around a sociable courtyard and a slice of towpath, also nourish a community of businesses that sustain between 250 and 300 jobs, all of which could go if the site’s new owner, Galliard Homes, has its way.
(3) In the silence, I heard a car reversing in the courtyard and then the Þrst slow notes of the call to prayer.
(4) Long Word... Long Word... Blah Blah Blah... I’m So Clever is at the Pleasance Courtyard, to 30 August JOE LYCETT Facebook Twitter Pinterest Joe Lycett.
(5) He is allowed a short, solitary walk in a courtyard each day, and is monitored by security cameras around the clock.
(6) On returning to the courtyard you can take an optional loop through the bee and butterfly wildflower meadow – the start of the path is just behind the engine shed building.
(7) He went on to publish several short-story collections, including A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard, set in Morocco and with an underlying theme of kif smoking.
(8) Alex Horne: Monsieur Butterfly is at the Pleasance Courtyard, 15-29 August JOSEPH MORPURGO Facebook Twitter Pinterest Joseph Morpurgo.
(9) Here, it’s easy to make yourself comfortable in the sweet, slightly whimsical bedrooms that open onto a serene, tree-filled courtyard.
(10) It is a plausible claim, judging by the cacophony of trumpets, cymbals, drums and violins erupting from classrooms, corridors and the courtyard: hundreds of children aged six to 19, some in trainers, others in flip-flops, individually and collectively making music.
(11) At the Pleasance Courtyard, Have I Got News for You regular Reginald D Hunter will perform a show called Work in Progress …and Niggas , for which tickets cost £13.
(12) Random grenade blasts and gunfire sent ripples of tension through the crowds, tearful women ducking as explosions rocked the courtyard.
(13) Some face the interior courtyard, while other, more atmospheric (though also noisier) rooms overlook Alvaro Obregon Avenue.
(14) "We were in the courtyard [of Millbank] and people were smashing through the glass to get into the building and saying 'Come in', so we just went into the building," said Olivia Wedderburn, 18, from east London.
(15) As an added bonus there is a shady courtyard area – which is just as well because people who get a table inside don’t move.
(16) 73 Kloof Street, +27 21 424 6169, onceincapetown.co.za The Backpack Facebook Twitter Pinterest Founder-owners Toni Shina and Lee Harris have created a homely hostel spread across four adjoining houses with cool courtyards and flowery gardens, a chillout lounge, communal kitchen, health-food cafe and terrace bar.
(17) I saw one soldier on the wall of the courtyard shooting inside.” Another witness said he saw soldiers setting fire to the clinic later that afternoon.
(18) Then he stepped over the bodies and chased children into the school courtyard where witnesses said he pursued a child, the eight-year-old daughter of the principal, grabbed her by the hair, pulled her to him and shot her at close range.
(19) In Raj Beti's courtyard, the evening light fades, leaving her face in shadow.
(20) His awareness of US technical capabilities was such that he would wear a cowboy hat when out in the courtyard of his villa to make it impossible for him to be identified by hovering drones and surveillance satellites.
Yard
Definition:
(v. i.) A rod; a stick; a staff.
(v. i.) A branch; a twig.
(v. i.) A long piece of timber, as a rafter, etc.
(v. i.) A measure of length, equaling three feet, or thirty-six inches, being the standard of English and American measure.
(v. i.) The penis.
(v. i.) A long piece of timber, nearly cylindrical, tapering toward the ends, and designed to support and extend a square sail. A yard is usually hung by the center to the mast. See Illust. of Ship.
(n.) An inclosure; usually, a small inclosed place in front of, or around, a house or barn; as, a courtyard; a cowyard; a barnyard.
(n.) An inclosure within which any work or business is carried on; as, a dockyard; a shipyard.
(v. t.) To confine (cattle) to the yard; to shut up, or keep, in a yard; as, to yard cows.
Example Sentences:
(1) Which means Seattle can't give Jones room to make 13-yard catches as they just did.
(2) Osman had gone close before that, flashing a shot over from seven yards after a corner.
(3) There were still 25 seconds left on the clock when Vernon Davis reeled in a catch at the Baltimore nine-yard line, but San Francisco could not convert on second or third down.
(4) When one pig was housed in a hut with a small outside yard a nychthemeral rhythm was sometimes superimposed on that imposed by feeding.
(5) He unleashes a scorching drive from about 18 yards, which Joe Hart tips wide via his right post.
(6) It hasn't been so exposed to the brutal learning culture Scotland Yard has been through with cases like Stephen Lawrence and Victoria Climbié.
(7) The Bears put together a 74 yard drive capped off by a Matt Forte run to give the Bears a one point lead... rather than "run" as I said earlier.
(8) The police on Scotland Yard's press operation Kit Malthouse, assembly member chair, Metropolitan Police Authority "I doubt whether money is changing hands.
(9) Jesús Navas played a one-two with Touré down the right and from his awkward cross the England squad goalkeeper fumbled the ball inside his six-yard area from where Fernando scored with an overhead kick as dextrous as it was surprising.
(10) Until that point, Bravo had looked assured, often straying 30 yards off his goal-line and confident enough to try a couple of passes that many goalkeepers would consider too risky.
(11) Bernard Hogan-Howe, the Metropolitan police commissioner, made the comments as he announced that Scotland Yard has begun two new inquiries.
(12) Yards away from a genuine station, he used a huge funnel to fill up a car sagging under the weight of its occupants and market produce.
(13) Dortmund seemed certain to score after Reus and Grosskreutz swapped passes on the edge of the area and Reuz tapped the ball into the path of Gundogan, charging in to meet it five yards out.
(14) The subjects responded to a mail survey that defined before surgery and after recovery functioning in relation to 22 activities of daily living representing personal care, housework-yard work, and recreation-social activities.
(15) Scotland Yard announced its decision to investigate a few hours after John Prescott, the former deputy prime minister, complained that Deen had not been arrested.
(16) John Yates, a Metropolitan police assistant commissioner, was criticised by the Conservative chairman of the Commons culture and media select committee, John Whittingdale, for failing to disclose information to MPs, but the Yard continues to refuse to say how many victims it has warned, and how many members of the royal household, military, police and government have been warned of evidence that Mulcaire intercepted their voicemail.
(17) As Cavani was shunted of the ball, it broke to Suarez, who aimed a quick-witted toe-poke at the bottom corner from 15 yards, only to be denied by Buffon, who showed tremendous agility to plunge to his right and tip it around the post!
(18) 8.51pm GMT Falcons 27 - Seahawks 21, 3:35 4th of quarter The smash mouth Falcons are back on first down, Turner has 12 more yards.
(19) As one source close to the inquiry put it: “There was a hell of a lot of dirty stuff going on.” Two earlier Yard inquiries had failed to investigate the relevant notes in Mulcaire’s logs.
(20) 7.48pm BST 2 min: Blaszczykowski runs towards the Bayern box for the first time but Ribéry tracks him all the way and eventually dispossesses him some 20 yards out.