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Sentence Examples The upside of this is that it's a good excuse to ditch the usual skylarking. Police and firefighters saved a motorist from drowning after his car left the road and plunged into a water-filled ditch yesterday. For those looking to ditch dairy, nondairy milk options are plentiful in most grocery stores these days. The east and west ditches are enfiladed by small, two storey demi caponiers whilst the main ditch is covered by a full caponier. And, if you plant local aquatic species in a drainage ditch or under a downspout, they act as a natural filter for pesticides in the water. A passing motorist found the car, which had hit the bridge parapet and rolled into a ditch near the river. His cuirassiers plunged into the thick of the fray at once, driving the Swedes pell-mell back across the ditch and road. The vehicle came to rest in a ditch where it caught fire and was completely destroyed. In one town, invading militiamen had filled an irrigation ditch with concrete. Why did Isabel Gonzalez carry flowers to a roadside ditch for more than 50 years? How could she just completely ditch me, and for the one person who at that time truly hated me. The trick is to ensure that the words you speak when you ditch her reveal your true personality at last. Steve was at work and my mother was sleeping, so I could ditch school today. The ditch around Stonehenge would have been dug using animal bones and deer antlers to loosen the underlying chalk. But surely now is the time to take the bull by the horns and ditch the deadwood. Colin Todd may ditch plans to sign a left-sided player if he can land two centre forwards. But, after a week of skating vert with pads and not making much progress, they decided to ditch the idea. He says the ditch in Holland Road which runs beside his land is not draining because it is used as a dumping ground for rubbish. Apply one technique, refine it as and when, then ultimately stick with it or ditch it. The question is, do I ditch my old friends and lifestyle in favour of glamour models and showbiz parties? Show More Sentences In the medieval period there was a wide ditch in front crossed by a drawbridge. With a last ditch effort, he managed to shove the ball up so that it glanced off his hands and away from him. Meanwhile Roberts, no longer protected by his own name, assumes Haskell's identity long enough to ditch the car and find Sue. Then I proceeded to dig a small ditch and hide them in it, concealed by fallen leaves. Built in the glacis style, there is no berm but a continuous 11 m. slope from the ditch bottom to the bank top. Just above the fine silt on the base of the ditch were four partial cattle skulls and a cranial fragment, probably also cattle. And therefore, one has either to ditch the condescending attitude to the electorate, or the social democracy. She was right to ditch the passage since it would have jarred with the spirit of reasoned debate. Besides, you can ditch boring conversations by really going to powder your nose. Now that the galactico era is ending the club are unlikely to ditch such useful performers. The day lilies in the ditch north of Five Corners are orange summer sentinels, fully at attention. In January of 1999 a truck was going uphill, slid into the ditch, rolled over on its side, and ruptured a fuel tank. I planned to go shopping for new jeans today, but I'm afraid I'll end up in a ditch, phoning AAA for a tow truck. Soldiers put in place barbed wire and razor wire, dug up fields next to the barrier, and widened a water-filled ditch. They did this by excavating a portion of the ditch and constructing a series of berms to retain water. Immediately in front was a narrow berm, beyond which was a V-profile ditch. The ability to shift the blade right and left comes in handy for slope and ditch work and for grading roads and parking lots. He wrote to the landowner implying that he had also encountered an Early Medieval ditch on one of the lower breaks of slope on the northern face. The Windies were making a last ditch effort to save the match with Lara at the middle. No need to ditch the chocolate chips always and forever, but regularly substituting something like fruit or frozen yogurt is smart and delish. Show More Sentences The ditch would need to be braced to prevent cave-in and a safety fence would need to be built around the ditch. To her big surprise, she actually managed to get her car out of the ditch within moments. The submission also urged ministers to ditch plans by which they would no longer be accountable to the judiciary. The film's goal is to encourage youngsters across the district to ditch junk food and eat more fruit and vegetables. It took a world war to finally ramp federal spending up to the levels needed to pull the economy out of the ditch. I don't care to know who you are, tell the Turnkey you found it in a ditch, whatever! Their armored amphibious vehicle had taken fire and, making a sharp turn, plunged into a deep ditch, rendering it immobile. You ditch the standard template you grabbed off the shelf when you first started blogging, in favour of a design of your own making. As kids head back to school, they can now ditch their traditional paper, plastic and metal lunch carriers for a natural cotton canvas sack. Lanes one and two of the motorway were closed for about an hour while two wreckers were used to drag the lorry from the ditch. The cat scampered along the side of the ditch, its coat shiny black from the morning rain. And there was also a time when a shire horse got stuck down a ditch and we had to pull it out. Stitch in the ditch of the seam from the right side. Stitch across the ends over the cord and backstitch to secure. I landed in the ditch with a thump, as the shocks tried to absorb the impact. A fireside chat over a disappointing bottle of wine prompted a Bradford couple to resolve to ditch their day jobs and set up their own business. An irrigation ditch ran alongside to the left of the track and was filled with water, weeds, waist-high rushes and reeds. A bank and ditch ran north-west towards the main camp on the central knoll near the trig point. The remains of the suicide vehicle was lying across a ditch near the stanchions of the flyover. The struggling group decided to call it quits after a last ditch effort to recruit new members failed. An ancient rule of wisdom advises that when the blind lead the blind they all stumble into the ditch. Show More Sentences A low bank and shallow ditch divides the interior of the fort, but is probably not contemporary with the use of the fort. This comprised an enclosure bounded by a single rampart and ditch on the eastern summit, more or less over the site of the Neolithic camp. The keep in stone encircled from the full water ditch that we see today was built at this time. Skinflint walkers can walk on by the gatehouse and follow the deep ditch that runs outside the high outer curtain of 14 th-century walls. On a more populist level, sunken living rooms are reinvading suburbia as Americans ditch large open spaces for rooms with more intimacy. And many villagers volunteered to help dig a ditch that will divert floodwaters from one beck to another. Its orientation, however, was curious, running diagonally across the ditch extension towards a position off-centre of the mound. Behind the bungalow, a lawned area led down to a compost heap and a small ditch at the bottom of the garden. High winds are thought to be responsible for a double-decker bus crashing through a barrier and into a ditch today. They had made it to the main road in front of the hotel when their car spun out of control and careened into a ditch. Armstrong followed his move a split second later, motoring around the others and up behind Beloki as if he were being winched out of a ditch. One of their missions was to fire illumination flares to aid commercial and military aircraft that were forced to ditch at sea. He only survived because he was swept into a ditch and a man spotted him and pointed out a route to safety. Who could be content with the mud pies of children playing in a ditch when he'd seen the work of Saramantha's greatest sculptors? Hopefully our flashers were visible from the road, as the ditch was quite low. Beginning in the quilt center, machine stitch in the ditch along all vertical seamlines. Primroses bugle, greater stitchwort, violets, celandine and many more other flowers scatter the verge and banks of the large ditch along side. Not only was the water cascading down the walls of the well, but there was also an irrigation ditch barely 60 feet away. The creature before her came sinuously forward up out of the ditch, folding its wings back to its scaly sides, so incredibly intent. Ayako walked over to the new tombstone and placed the urn into the small stone ditch right in front of it. Show More Sentences Burke's opportunity to ditch the skivvying came when his ailing grandfather divided up some inheritance money before passing away. Time and time again, Kennedy, McNamara Varga, Agathe and Thompson flung themselves into last ditch tackles and won. Suddenly, he slams the car into reverse on the muddy road, almost sliding into a ditch. It also looks as if one of the last two undeveloped lots across the street from the ditch will become a construction site within days. This government stroke means that it takes so much longer to dig a ditch, to construct a building, build a bridge or a piece of railroad. One note of caution though, there is a very deep ditch near the tracks and if you get stuck in it it's a long ways to go for help. Up on the opposite side of the road, hiding in the tall grass of the ditch, was a little orange and white striped kitten, peeking out. The men sent a Mayday radio message at about 11 am and made a classic ditch landing south of St Martin's Island. Having collided with the crash barrier, the car struck a pedestrian bridge, before rolling into a ditch where it caught fire and exploded. Between each plot, there's a strip of no-man's land disguised as a hedge or a ditch. So this Saturday, April 16, is your chance to ditch your slow, pokey and unused technology. Surveying was the essential precondition to owning land, building a mill race, or constructing a canal, railroad, or irrigation ditch. The Act party really needs to ditch this hopeless excuse for a free-market advocate. Inside the bounding ditch might be a paling fence, or a live hedge, or a stone wall. He looked around the village, which consisted of half a dozen mud huts and a wooden palisade with a ditch surrounding it. The water in the ditch is too shallow for fish to live in but I bend down toward it, hoping in vain to find a school of tiny minnow. The undercarriage struck soil that had been piled up from a ditch excavation and flipped the aircraft. I suppose you can all see that I have managed to ditch the pensive mood I was in when I made my previous post. Rowan, a five-year-old cob and shire cross who is 16 hands tall, was trapped for six hours in a water-filled ditch at a farm. Rubbish is something we tut-tut at when we come across sweet wrappers, fertiliser bags or even a discarded fridge stuck in a roadside ditch. Show More Sentences Drain water from pools, hot tubs and roof drains to a ditch or separate dry well. On TV screens across the globe, for more than three months now, the sheep have been jumping into the ditch without a bleat of protest. The car really was on a bad angle, hovered over the ditch like that, it looked like we'd had a terrible accident. The driver's side window opened, which allowed more water to pour into the car and also make it sink further into the mucky bottom of the ditch. A motorist ended up in a ditch and a second driver was slightly hurt when a pedal cycle was thrown from a road bridge on to the A64 today. Mis-timing the approach can see the horse actually land in the open ditch or clout the fence halfway up. There was traffic disruption after bomb disposal experts were called out to remove an unexploded mortar shell found dumped in a ditch. People are being urged to ditch low-paid unskilled work to take advantage of a jobs bonanza in the construction industry in Bradford. In the middle Iron Age, open settlement was superseded by a large enclosure surrounded by a 6m-wide ditch, with an associated field system. The track was not used often, but had a water ditch on one side which would regularly have to be drained through a sluice gate. A small baobab tree is growing out of the filth in the middle of the concrete-lined ditch. The only way both of these principles can be true is if we ditch many of our notions of time and space. In the midst of digging a ditch for a new fence line one summer, he pickaxed into a massive tangle of hibernating snakes. After that, she led us along a thin, icy path on a dike between the channel and a deep, muddy ditch with sharp sticks jutting up from the bottom. Just to complicate matters a little more, there is a deep ditch running from corner to corner in the field. There was a ditch on the north side, and a military zone on the south defined by an earthwork called the vallum. Perennial sowthistle is common in cultivated areas, ditch banks, meadows, and neglected areas. But as he was about to climb up the muddy ditch, another water tree fell on him. Next, we came across a wide canal or antitank ditch that was filled with water. He dived into the weeds and rolled into the ditch filled with ice-cold water. Show More Sentences Anyway, I had some people telling me to ditch the girl, others telling me to forgive and forget. I mean come on you can't just ditch us because you moved across the country. If you want to ditch school and come over to hang out with me, they why should I stop you? On my way to school I thought of multiple possibilities to ditch classes today. It continues to be a difficult temptation to ditch church and watch all the Sunday morning political shows, but I resisted today. He could see the blood on my face and thought it might be necessary for me to ditch my plane. Why didn't the pilot just head out to sea and ditch the plane so the Chinese wouldn't have gotten a chance to capture it? At this point, the crew realized we might have to bail out or ditch the aircraft. Yes, you can bail out of the aircraft or you can ditch the aircraft in the ocean or you can land. I was concerned that I was either going to have to ditch the aircraft or would have controllability problems on deck. The flight turned into an Immediate disaster and had to ditch in icy waters. Three crew members returning from an attack on Genoa died after their aircraft was forced to ditch in the River Humber. The aircraft had to ditch in the North Sea and all six crew members were able to scramble out and into a dinghy. Every few days, the dunny can would be emptied into the same ditch the kitchen scraps. She knew Andy wouldn't just sleep with her and then ditch her. The kitchen sink emptied straight into a ditch, and there was no garden at all but for an overgrown orchard with a few apple trees and wild cherry seedlings. These early ditches had silted up a number of times and at one stage, metalworking had taken place in the sheltered area provided by the ditch banks. There was a ditch in right field before the fence started that, once in a while, a player would fall into. The woman attempted to escape by reversing the car, but lost control and ended up in a ditch at the side of the quiet country road close to Wistow Mine. We found six species in a single small ditch beside the road to Bull Pond. Show More Sentences We hit a ditch and in about ten or 15 minutes all was quite. I jumped out and fell into a deep ditch by the side of the road. The vehicle hit a ditch and turned over on the driver's side. The sequence reeks of a pet-project so long in the gestation that the creators aren't prepared to ditch even one of the million ideas they came up with. There are also plans to dig a culvert to carry water if the drainage ditch is full but he doubted there was enough room to dig one within the width of the road. The main frontier comprises a stone foundation about 4.3m wide on which stood a turf bank up to 3m high, fronted by a berm and a ditch normally about 12m wide and 3m deep. This year's excavation returned to the metalworking area outside the mound's ditch and uncovered a wealth of finds including a sword pommel and ingot mould. We may not have slipped straight into the gaucho lifestyle, our horse being more determined to deposit us in a ditch then to stick on the road, but we were learning. Now Glasgow's city fathers appear to be winning their last ditch struggle. A seaside town needs to ditch its comic postcard image as a faded resort for trippers and become a vibrant community where people want to live and invest. Whether you know them as mudbugs, ditch bugs, river lobsters, crawlybottoms, crawdads, or crawfish, anyone who has spent time in streams is familiar with crayfish. Flanking chambers built into the inner wall of the ditch provided covering fire across the face of each caponier to prevent the enemy laying charges to destroy them. We've been trying to solve the garden's drainage problems recently, but been hampered by the jungle-like growth of most of the things near the ditch. As I back our minivan into a three-point turn, I fail to see that the tall wildflowers growing at the side of the road are actually rising from a ditch. The racer slued to the side and hit a ditch that Brent had not seen. I slipped on the severed shank of a buffalo and fell hard into a ditch. The more widely this is known, the more it is likely to promote a sense of fatalism, as people ditch their diet or fall off the wagon and blame it on their genes. The arbours were wooden dining halls, surrounded by a hedge and ditch with an elaborate entrance, that were used as places of entertainment and feasting. Then you discover that the process has all the glamour of digging a ditch. He went over black ice and spun off the highway into a ditch. Show More Sentences The right wing should ditch the tricorn hats and replace them with mirrored sunglasses. If you want a more formal look, better to ditch the hankie altogether than impose straight lines. The car spun and landed in a V-shaped ditch, which held the doors shut. What it's done is ditch a blah celebrity in favor of a wow celebrity. The school nurse offers children injections of vital immunizations, helps heal headaches, stomachaches and twisted ankles, and handles the occasional attempt to ditch class. Then a blue van struck the front of the lorry as it was in the ditch, pushing two ladders, which were on board, into the driver's side of the lorry cab. I started making a plan to ditch the aircraft in the event of a flameout. Sixteen days later, his severed head was found in a drainage ditch miles from their home. I really hate it when people ditch me without even a phone call. This would connect the castle to a roadway usually across a moat or ditch. I say ditch her and jump the next plane back here to Paris, buddy. In what was seen by many activists as a line in the sand, the party's national assembly came out strongly against leadership plans to ditch its traditional opposition to Nato. We nearly had a nasty experience with a ditch and a make-do bridge that it turned out we didn't need to cross anyway, and ended up calming our nerves in The Withy Cafe. The tow truck driver who eventually towed the truck out testified it had to be towed out of the ditch because the left front wheel was down in the mud and stuck. Sal wakes him up to ditch the car and has trouble sleeping himself. He'd found the tile in the lowest part of the broken ditch, his shovel ringing against it as he made a few peremptory thrusts into the broken soil. I tore along the ditch, as the car was struggling to stay in control. It depicts an exhausted Texas oil field on scrub land, an old railroad bed and a watery ditch converging in the distance. If America really wants to help Africa grow with trade and investment, it needs to ditch a number of stereotypes it still holds. But no-fault divorce takes away a woman's bargaining chips when her husband decides he wants to ditch her. Show More Sentences Outside the lodge, running along its perimeter, was a small ditch lined by posts topped by a chest-high wooden beam. When Jerry Lee was taken home and his car was towed from the ditch, the deputies forgot to administer a test for intoxication. The overall design of each battery was that of an irregular pentagon surrounded by a deep ditch, which was enfiladed by three caponiers and a counter-scarp gallery. I buy shares when they look cheap, and if others wish to ditch their shares in the summer, I could be ready and waiting with my chequebook in hand. A ha-ha was a six-foot deep ditch, vertical at the edge of the property, so that the neighbor's cattle could graze right up to the line, appearing to be one's own. The outer defences comprise only a V-shaped ditch across the headland. At the first obtuse fact and boring tangent, readers will ditch them. Yet if he were to die tomorrow in a jeep accident, drowning in ditch water as Mike did, it would be fundamentally indecent and mean-spirited of me to sketch such a portrait. There are some redeeming features, but thus far the show needs to ditch the schmaltzy love triangles and sensationalism and focus on character and story. Rather than ditch the gun and run as a New York kid might, the younger pedro allegedly pointed it at the officers. The stagnant pool of green water at the bottom of the ditch rises slightly. Along the inner and outer ditch sides of the walls of Old Owu silk-cotton trees were planted at regular intervals of about 150 metres, though they were also planted in groups. He had been prompted to do so by the existence of at least one ditch around the hill top, which had been recognised some 200 years earlier by the antiquary William Stukeley. Excavations of the ditch have recovered antlers that were left behind and after their age was tested it was revealed that the first henge was built over 50 centuries ago. This circumvallation had begun modestly enough as a yard-high rampart with stockade and ditch, but successive developments raised it to well over 30 feet. Then I ended up in the muddy drainage ditch, so I was in a word, filthy. You need some breathing room, but you don't want to totally ditch Lindsay. A life-size bronze arm of a Roman statue has been excavated from a rubbish-filled ditch or watercourse in the City of London, just south of the Roman amphitheatre. During a morning press conference, dormer said he believed that Gilbert most likely fell into a drainage ditch and drowned. They have applied to the government to ditch the traditional polling booth in favour of a pilot to send out 165,000 eligible voters a postal ballot. Show More Sentences He, at points of his journey, supervised the work by directing attention to unwatered sections by a blocked ditch or the overgrowth of of weeds on another section. When I found her as a kitten, she was sitting in a ditch mewing. A ditch and a line of trees ran along the edge of the playing fields. It also made sense for Sorenson to ditch Bachmann for entirely political reasons. Who knew explaining how to change a tire and back out of a ditch could be so seductive? Did they ditch class, or did their teachers declare an impromptu holiday? Long before its construction an Iron Age hill fort of the 6th century B.C. occupied the site, its double ditch can still be seen on the west of the castle. But they are far from disconsolate, because they have confirmed that the defensive ditch of the medieval Castle is still in good condition and where they expected it to be. In some cases, the construction of the bank and ditch was a stage that followed other activity on the site. There are cropmark indications that an outer ditch existed and that a roundhouse or henge was located inside the monument. But following more medical advice, Suarez made the decision to ditch the 25-year-old and replace him with Real Espana's Edder Delgado. A FORMER Armed Forces servicewoman is urging Midland pupils to ditch their school uniform to raise cash for charity. The bank was purposely reduced in height and the ditch continued to silt up. Thirty further cremations were placed in the enclosure's ditch and at other points within the monument, mostly in the eastern half. Lucy looked at the tall grass and the Queen Anne's lace, the chicory, the bedstraw and sweet clover, waist-high in the shallow ditch. Over the course of time, the palisade might be replaced by a fine brick or stone wall, and the ditch serve also as a moat. A Middle Saxon phase with pits, possible buildings and a ditch represents phase 6 and medieval ditches and furrows dose the sequence. An unaccountable committee of supposed worthies approves the construction of a ditch which underwhelms friends and fans alike. Those are hideously bad ideas that have driven us into the ditch we're in. These can be a river, ditch, strip of trees, hedgerow or even an underpass to a highway. Show More Sentences His last ditch slide tackle on Billy Jones in the Sunderland game being the stand out example. The car finally came to rest just past the trees, back in the ditch. A ditch was dug around the settlement and it was fortified with earth ramparts. Then to the ditch where the way Esne delves, then of down to the top of the dike, then of down to the brook to Tid's ford. Martyrs' Kalim Ali went closest after the break but was foiled by a last ditch block, while Dean Clarke had a half volley saved. I too was tempted to ditch my husband and the gloomy climes of England for a bronzed Greek man on the charming island of Mykonos. In either case, the water had to be discharged into a stream or ditch at a level where it could flow away by gravity. The ditch was continuous but had been dug in sections, like the ditches of the earlier causewayed enclosures in the area. Some of it had a fossa or ditch in front, and an agger behind, and it was enough to deter Hannibal. We each have resolved to ditch any territorialism in the wider interests of benefiting the pupils in each other's schools as well as our own. That's why this year we've decided to ditch the new year fad diet and think about more sustainable ways to keep our muffin tops in check. If you're keen to join the ranks and ditch your square eyes and app-induced anxiety why not unplug with a digital detox holiday? For starters Sian would ditch I'M A CELEBRITY hosts Ant and Dec and replace them with X Factor idols Jedward. Now all Robbie needs is to ditch that chavtastic blue tracksuit and get a high-flying wardrobe instead. Can he tell us who would become the class enemy if ditch diggers found common cause with Old Etonian barristers? I thought jumping the last ditch that I had a chance of winning but the dead ground caught him out a bit from there. If she's no gold digger, why would she ditch you for being poor but honest? But Hammam has been told to halve the size to 30,000 and ditch proposals for shops. The property owns water rights in a ditch system that provides water to the ranch for fire protection and piscatorial rights. Aston Martin was put on the auctioneer's block in September but Mr Leet said then he had no plans to ditch Jaguar. Show More Sentences This first stage is dated to around 3100 BC, after which the ditch began to silt up naturally. Subsequent aerial archaeology suggests that this ditch runs from the west to the north of Stonehenge, near the avenue. The earliest were of a simple univallate form, and often connected with earlier enclosures attached to the long ditch systems. Defences, consisted initially of a ditch and bank in the early 12th century. The ditch was later widened, in the mid 13th century, and a stone wall built around much of the perimeter of the town. Into the ditch was dumped large amounts of rubble, gravel and stone, whatever fill was available. The other sides were formed by a polygonal wall and ditch constructed in the usual way, with gates and watchtowers. From north to south, the wall comprised a ditch, wall, military way and vallum, another ditch with adjoining mounds. Immediately south of the wall, a large ditch was dug, with adjoining parallel mounds, one on either side. Thus Severus drew a great ditch and strong rampart, fortified with several towers, from sea to sea. To prevent the festering ditch posing further health problems, it was ordered that the moat should be drained and filled with earth. A bridge was built over the ditch to the south of the castle to enable easier access to the park. A moat was a defensive ditch with steep sides, and could be either dry or filled with water. A geophysical survey of the field in which the hoard was found discovered what could be a ditch close to the find. Fonda tried in vain to convince Jarrow and Archer to ditch the project. King Edward I brought his armies to Perth in 1296 and with only a ditch for defence and little fortification, the city fell quickly. In particular, a fine example of the ritual deposition of an iron adze in the ditch of a round house, suggests a significant disposable wealth. Stone defences were added to the earthen ditch and rampart by AD 110 and the fort was occupied until the middle or end of that century. However, it was later abandoned for a time and in the early 3rd century the ditch naturally silted up. Work began on cutting the ditch around Conwy Castle within days of Edward's decision. Show More Sentences The Inner Ward was originally separated from the Outer Ward by an internal wall, a drawbridge and a gate, protected by a ditch cut into the rock. The ditch was filled in during the 16th century and the drawbridge removed. The cairn consisted of an earthen mound with a surrounding ditch 28 metres in circumference and over 2 metres tall. The castle comprises a scarp and ditch forming a raised platform and on the north face is a ruined drystone building. Oh, not the middle of nowhere like the rest of Indiana, but a nowhere so flat and ugly you want to lie down in a ditch and never get up again. The inner ward was separated from the outer by a wall, a drawbridge and a gate, protected by a ditch cut into the rock. Just behind them, a tarp was pulled across a now flooded ditch. A deep ditch with a retractable bridge was dug into the chalk to protect the facility from ground attack from the island side. Despite the difficult ground, Valens reached Adrianople where the Roman army fortified its camp with ditch and rampart. The stakes were higher too and in front of the ditch while on several parts of the limes, instead of stakes there was a simple stone wall. It consists of a double bank and intermediate ditch with an entrance on the eastern side. Scott's foot connected with the side of his head, dislodging his wrenchlike grip. The sheriff fell back into the ditch holding his nose. After a last ditch night feint and barge attack during the heavy rain storm at the time led by Capt. Stonehenge is not a true henge as its ditch runs outside its bank, although there is a small extant external bank as well. A small outer bank beyond the ditch could also date to this period. Deep passages and tunnels now connected the blockhouses and firing points in the ditch to the fort proper, with magazines and machine rooms deep under the surface. He stayed up all night in a last ditch effort to finish on time. She puts up with the pain, but the doctor has told her she seriously needs to consider a bunionectomy or ditch the heels for a few months to let the inflammation calm down. The castle was defended by just a ditch and a temporary barricade. No doubt Buckingham Palace will study ways to try to prevent its publication, but if the book is published the Mail on Sunday must ditch their plans to serialise it. Show More Sentences They have branded Mr Hunt a lame duck and Mr Cameron is widely expected to ditch his Culture Secretary in a reshuffle after Mr Hunt has overseen the Olympic Games. The essential characteristic of all three types is that they feature a ring bank and ditch, but with the ditch inside the bank rather than outside. This earliest phase of the castle would have been enclosed by a ditch and defended by a timber palisade, and probably had accommodation suitable for William. These are hot times for flashlights as consumers ditch their outdated models for newer ones, presenting an excellent opportunity for retailers like you to rake in the profits. Residential areas were principally located in the two southern quadrants, built up beside the ditch protecting the inner bailey and Norman castle. Bilal Ahmed, the spouse of Shehla had reported to the police on Friday night that her wife had fallen into a deep ditch near Monal Resturant at Pir Sohawa. It wasn't all gloom for The Fugue's trainer, John Gosden, who staged a Haydock 1-2 with Pomology and Sultanina just before Belle D'Or's last ditch Sandown win. If a blind man lead a blind man, both fall down in the ditch. However, Fernando believes the place is overelaborate, and it needs to ditch some of the more traditional French meals so it can attract more customers. Out go the hairnets, overalls and wellies as the four ditch work, do themselves up to the nines and head off for a day at the races for a drink, flirt and a flutter. The ditch was extremely vulnerable to bombardment with explosive shells. Security was bolstered by a deep ditch on the northern side. Low job satisfaction and a lack of responsibility are seen as the main reasons for employees choosing to ditch work by faking illness, according to a new absenteeism poll. Deposits containing human bone date from as early as 3000 BC, when the ditch and bank were first dug, and continued for at least another five hundred years. The others called me a gay bob when I wouldn't ditch class with them. The centre-right leader said he wanted the ballot next year on whether to ditch the current flag, which features the Union Jack of former colonial power Britain in one corner. The nation's short-lived affair with low-carb confectionery has reached an end as confectioners begin to ditch their offerings and the multiples de-list the products. Outside the tomb, a ring of kerbstones shows the original extent of the mound, and they also follow the line of the ditch of the earlier henge monument. But as they tear down the dirt roads in the dead of night, a truck rolls out of nowhere, they lose control, and their car ends up in a ditch. He pictured himself now, crawling in the mud of a ditch, filthy and wretched, scampering in retreat. Find more words! 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