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Sentence Examples Tonight, Wakefield Jazz presents Sax Appeal, a long-established octet which features five saxophones, led by Derek Nash. The 35-year-old cabbie from Wakefield walked grinning from the city's magistrates court after receiving the fine and a six-month driving ban. While Ada sliced chicken, Wakefield focused binoculars on her knuckly hands. He arranged a regular supply to a man in the Wakefield area but by the year end was in a new relationship and wanted out of the drug trade. The group also runs two independent schools and three private nurseries in Wakefield and Barnsley. West Yorkshire Police have launched an amnesty on offensive weapons in the Wakefield and Pontefract areas. The tactic paid off, for 37 years later David Hope was at the same cathedral being enthroned as Bishop of Wakefield. The club are in negotiations with Ellis and Wakefield but a deal now appears increasingly unlikely. He went to the Pennine School in Wakefield, a Steiner school offering vocational training in a friendly, homely environment. After one successful outing at Wakefield he celebrated with a meal at the hotel and then caught the milk train back to York. He was sentenced to life and is currently in Wakefield top security prison. Taken prisoner, he was jailed and as a POW served time in Wakefield and Frongoch prisons. He comes to Wakefield Jazz with his own septet, hand-picked from the cream of London players. Also, when I dial 999 I am connected to Wakefield whose staff haven't a clue where I am or what I am talking about. In Wakefield, Labour retained its strong grip on power, keeping 17 of the 20 seats it was defending. Having lost narrowly to Hull twice, Wakefield are looking to make it third time lucky against them tomorrow. Pauline had worked as a presser in the Sunderland branch of the Wakefield Shirt Company for almost five years. The odds were stacked against them but there was no lack of self-belief from the Tigers, who subjected the Wakefield line to an onslaught. In one case at Wakefield, a youth dangled a piece of concrete with spikes in it from a bridge. A woman prison officer at Wakefield Jail was being held hostage in a cell by a male prisoner late last night. Show More Sentences As Wakefield learned firsthand, the Sioux's patience was not without limits. He has been offered places in assisted care homes in Boston Spa and Wakefield, but wants to stay near his family in York. York, Wakefield and Doncaster stations are run by GNER and will not be affected as the unions are not in dispute with that company. Officers in riot gear were called to Wakefield to control an unruly crowd of several hundred people. In 1667 three men were hanged at York for the murder of a Wakefield woman suspected of bewitching a man. A Wakefield Council spokeswoman said it shared the frustrations of landowners but it was powerless to act. Dr. Wakefield brings to the project a wealth of research abilities in the fields of gastroenterology, virology, and immunology. Dr Wakefield is a crusader for truth, a committed scientist, a conscientious physician, and a devoted family man. Deputy town clerk Linda Wakefield said the council would not be co-opting a new member. He was appointed to the curacy of Brampton, near Wakefield in 1772, eventually becoming prebendary of Lincoln cathedral from 1786 until his death. But the weakest subplot, at least dramatically, is the Wakefield story. If Dr Wakefield has made such dramatic breakthroughs in his research into Crohn's disease, then why is it that these are not generally recognised? Outraged that the Wakefield campaign was going to get even more publicity, a number of leading authorities, who had been invited to participate, decided to boycott the debate. With Wakefield up in the pen yet again as Francona burned through his options, Curt Leskanic came in and got Williams to fly to center to end the inning. He added that while the two cities were interlinked, they were very distinct and pointed out Wakefield was the historic capital of the old West Riding. David Rigby had worked at Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield for six years when, one night in June, he sneaked into the ward where the infirm pensioner was bedridden. On December 8, Mr Brodie wrote a letter of complaint to the company's Wakefield office, after which he was offered a free dishwasher and washing machine. The inquest heard she was found hanging by a plastic shower curtain in her cell and was declared dead on arrival at Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield. In his now notorious 1998 Lancet paper, Dr Wakefield invited further researches into his MMR-autism hypothesis in the spheres of epidemiology and virology. A magistrate in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, spared a prosecutor's vocal chords last week by excusing him from reading out a local drunk's previous convictions. Show More Sentences Police were also called to a building in Northgate in Wakefield city centre after the wind blew off part of the roof, narrowly missing a pedestrian. Another time the Provost warned him and another choirboy about eating fish and chips in a main road in Wakefield, so from then on they kept to the side streets. Two days after his arrival Wakefield held divine service on Church Hill. Back in April 1864 the six-year-old John Wakefield planted the tree on Lower Tenter Fell where, for centuries, locally made cloth had been dried on tenter frames. The little man from Papua New Guinea was the first to sense that Wakefield were beginning to tire and, according to Radlinski, he let his teammates know. They think it's a McCarthyist vendetta against Dr Wakefield. They think it's a McCarthyite vendetta against Dr Wakefield. He was at the infamous Orgreave coking plant near Sheffield during a particularly ugly confrontation, and narrowly avoided being badly hurt at Woolley pit near Wakefield. During the Wars of the Roses, Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York was killed on 30 December 1460 in the Battle of Wakefield near Sandal Castle. In medieval times Wakefield became an inland port on the Calder and centre for the woollen and tanning trades. The railways arrived in Wakefield in 1840 when Kirkgate Station was built on the Manchester to Leeds line. The outlying villages of Sandal Magna, Belle Vue and Agbrigg have become suburbs of Wakefield. Wakefield was anciently a market and parish town in the Agbrigg division of the wapentake of Agbrigg and Morley in the West Riding of Yorkshire. In 1836 the Wakefield Poor Law Union was formed following the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 with an elected Board of Guardians. After Wakefield was elevated to diocese in 1888, Wakefield Council sought city status which was granted the same year. Today the city is the headquarters of Wakefield Metropolitan District Council, Yorkshire Ambulance Service and West Yorkshire Police. Wakefield includes the former outlying villages of Alverthorpe, Thornes, Sandal Magna, Agbrigg, Lupset, Kettlethorpe and Flanshaw. In 2001 the Wakefield urban area had a population of 76,886 comprising 37,477 males and 39,409 females. At the 2001 census, there were 33,521 people in employment who were resident within Wakefield. The old Wakefield Bridge with its Chantry Chapel, Sandal Castle, and Lawe Hill in Clarence Park are ancient monuments. Show More Sentences Wakefield is crossed by the A61, A638, and A642 roads and is the starting point of the A636 and A650 roads. It was opened to Leeds in 1704 and to Wakefield in 1706, enabling craft carrying 100 tons to reach Wakefield from the Humber. In 1356 the Chantry Chapel of St Mary the Virgin on Wakefield bridge was built originally in wood, and later in stone. This chapel is one of four chantry chapels built around Wakefield and the oldest and most ornate of the four surviving in England. Wakefield Museum moved from the former Mechanics' Institute on Wood Street to Wakefield One at the same time. Wakefield is known as the capital of the Rhubarb Triangle, an area notable for growing early forced rhubarb. Another newspaper, the Wakefield Guardian was established in 2007, but has ceased publishing. A small part of the 1977 BBC film The Price of Coal was filmed in Wakefield with the Mines Rescue Team based in the city. Wakefield Trinity is a Rugby League club currently playing in the Super League. They include Wakefield City, Westgate Wolves, Crigglestone All Blacks, Kettlethorpe and Eastmoor Dragons. Rugby Union Football is played at Sandal RUFC and was played by Wakefield RFC at College Grove from 1901 to 2004 when the club ceased to play. Golf clubs include the municipal course at Lupset and the private Wakefield Golf Club at Sandal. Wakefield Prison, originally built as a house of correction in 1594, is a maximum security prison. Wakefield is policed by the West Yorkshire Police force and is within the DA, Wakefield division, which covers the whole district. Wakefield is also the location of the West Yorkshire Police Force Headquarters, located on Laburnam Road. The statutory emergency fire and rescue service is provided by the West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service, from Wakefield fire station. It was Sir Humphry's great uncle, Edward Wakefield, who designed the pioneering Waterbird aircraft. The Rev Mike Wilkins was officially instituted at Holy Trinity Church by the Bishop of Wakefield the Rt Rev Stephen Platten. Red Sox knuckleballer Tim Wakefield kept the Blue Jays batters off balance as Boston scored a 6-4 win over Toronto at Fenway Park on Wednesday. Eight rowing boats will be in Leeds, Wakefield and Birkenshaw as well as Brighouse and Bingley. Show More Sentences They won their own local derby 34-16 at Wakefield on Friday night with pacy full-back Richard Owen crossing for a brace of tries. Danny Washbrook's try moved Wakefield back ahead and Lyne went over four minutes from time to claim the win and knock Wigan off top spot. The Queen was today giving Maundy Money to 158 pensioners in an historic ceremony at Wakefield Cathedral. Eric, the National Coal Mining Museum pit pony yesterday visited Wakefield Council's Tourist Information Centre, who recently 'adopted' Eric. I expect Wakefield United will win the cup this year, from their present performance, but it is early days yet to be really sure. York was the base for Royalists, and from there they captured Leeds and Wakefield only to have them recaptured a few months later. Richard and his second son Edmund were killed at the battle of Wakefield on 30 December. State election seasons traditionally start with the annual Shad Planking event in Wakefield. Boston Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield is best known for his use of the knuckleball. Varitek did not start so Kevin Cash could catch the knuckleballing starter Tim Wakefield. On Easter Monday each year Gawthorpe, near Wakefield, holds the World Coal Carrying Championship. The area between Leeds, Bradford and Wakefield is known as the Rhubarb Triangle. Northern Foods are now based at Trinity Business Park off the A636 south of Wakefield town centre. For the metropolitan areas, Calderdale and Wakefield consistently perform the best, with both above the England average. East of Leeds, the motorway serves Wakefield at junction 30 and crosses by the River Calder. They were built by Charles Roberts Ltd at Horbury Junction works, near Wakefield. Near Wakefield Tower was a postern gate which allowed private access to the king's apartments. Between the Wakefield and Lanthorn Towers, the innermost ward's wall also serves as a curtain wall for the inner ward. Wentbridge is a village in the City of Wakefield district of West Yorkshire, England. A commemorative Blue Plaque has been placed on the bridge that crosses the River Went by Wakefield City Council. Show More Sentences There is a village in West Yorkshire called Robin Hood, on the A61 between Leeds and Wakefield and close to Rothwell and Lofthouse. Some booksellers sold the novel in brown paper bags, and the Bishop of Wakefield, Walsham How, is reputed to have burnt his copy. Wavell Wakefield represented England in 31 Tests between 1920 and 1927, including 13 Tests as captain. Playing as flanker, Wakefield introduced new elements to back row tactics which beforehand concentrated on the set piece. He became the RFU President in 1950 and following his retirement from politics was awarded the title the first Baron Wakefield of Kendal. By 1887 St John's had reached its first cup final, the Yorkshire Cup losing to Wakefield Trinity. On Saturday 27 October 1934, Leeds and Wakefield Trinity met in the final of the Yorkshire Cup at Crown Flatt, Dewsbury. Leeds have West Yorkshire derbies with Wakefield Trinity who they play every Boxing Day in the Festive Challenge. They have rivalries with Warrington, Leeds, Bradford, Halifax and Wakefield Trinity. In 2003 under Smith, Huddersfield established themselves as a Super League club, finishing 10th, above Wakefield Trinity and Halifax. The journal completely retracted the paper on 2 February 2010, after Wakefield was found to have acted unethically in conducting the research. Wakefield has also attracted many service based industries, inparticularly call centres. West Yorkshire has two mainline railway stations, Leeds and Wakefield Westgate. Perhaps the most famous of the mystery plays, at least to modern readers and audiences, are those of Wakefield. He may have been a highly educated cleric there, or possibly a friar from a nearby monastery at Woodkirk, four miles north of Wakefield. The Harrowing of Hell, derived from the apocryphal Acts of Pilate, was a popular part of the York and Wakefield cycles. Both his father and brother were killed at the Battle of Wakefield, while his grandfather and another brother were executed for treason. Meanwhile, Wakefield ordered a floatplane similar to the design of the 1910 Fabre Hydravion. By November 1911, both Gnosspelius and Wakefield had aircraft capable of flight from water and awaited suitable weather conditions. The major towns of Wakefield, Barnsley and Rotherham are within its boundaries. Show More Sentences They planned a canal running from Wakefield south through Barnsley to the River Don at Swinton east of Rotherham. The only large town centres through which the Calder flows are Brighouse, Mirfield, Dewsbury and the city of Wakefield. At Wakefield, for example, the lake at Pugneys Country Park is used as an overflow for the river in order to protect the town. The recently regenerated Wakefield Waterfront area is defended by one of the most sophisticated flood defence systems in Europe. Arriva Yorkshire operate services that link Halifax with the West Yorkshire towns and cities of Dewsbury and Wakefield. The Battle of Wakefield took place in the Wars of the Roses and it was a Royalist stronghold in the Civil War. Wakefield became an important market town and centre for wool, exploiting its position on the navigable River Calder to become an inland port. They divided the area into wapentakes and Wakefield was part of the Wapentake of Agbrigg. Before 1066 the manor of Wakefield belonged to Edward the Confessor and it passed to William the Conqueror after the Battle of Hastings. Wakefield and its environs formed the caput of an extensive baronial holding by the Warennes that extended to Cheshire and Lancashire. The Domesday Book recorded two churches, one in Wakefield and one in Sandal Magna. Wakefield can be appreciated as coarticulator of a ventriloquistic logos and choreographer of a telescopic parallactic vision. Kidderminster groundsman Mark Wakefield has been recognised for his fine work during the 2007 season by the England and Wales Cricket Board. Wakefield regained the lead with Tony Martin latching onto Brough's kick but Fielden and Tomkins ensured Wigan's passage to tonight's draw. Both Ferrie and Wakefield ended on 12 under, both of them carding five-under 67s, with Wakefield birdying the last to deny Ferrie the win in regulation time. Where would 225 wins leave Wakefield among knuckleballers all-time? Some of the battles took place in Yorkshire, such as those at Wakefield and Towton, the latter of which is known as the bloodiest battle ever fought on English soil. Lydia was inspired to join the group of 18 trekking for Sense after first-hand experience supporting deaf-blind people in her job role at the Sense centre in Wakefield. Wakefield Sports Club at College Grove also has the Yorkshire Regional Hockey Academy, Wakefield Bowls Club and Wakefield Squash Club on the same site. The Church of England diocese of Wakefield covered parishes mainly in West Yorkshire, parts of South Yorkshire and five parishes in North Yorkshire. Show More Sentences Wakefield Westgate is on the Wakefield Line of the MetroTrain network. According to research by Cushman and Wakefield in 2008, Manchester is the second best city to locate a business in the UK whilst Liverpool is the eleventh best city. Wakefield Westgate opened in 1867 on the Doncaster to Leeds line. A network of local buses, coordinated by West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive and departing from the bus station in the town centre, serves Wakefield and district. Also at the time of the 2001 UK census, the City of Wakefield had a total population of 315,172 of whom 161,962 were female and 153,210 were male. In the 2011 Census, Newton Hill, Outwood, Stanley and Wrenthorpe were counted as parts of Wakefield, having been classified separately in the 2001 Census. Wakefield Union workhouse was built on Park Lodge Lane, Eastmoor in 1853 and Clayton Hospital was built in 1854 after a donation from Alderman Thomas Clayton. At the time of the Civil War, Wakefield was a Royalist stronghold. The Saxon church in Wakefield was rebuilt in about 1100 in stone in the Norman style and was continually enlarged until 1315 when the central tower collapsed. After the Conquest Wakefield was a victim of the Harrying of the North in 1069 when William the Conqueror took revenge on the local population for resistance to Norman rule. Wakefield is a city in West Yorkshire, England, on the River Calder and the eastern edge of the Pennines, which had a population of 99,251 at the 2011 census. Around Huddersfield, Mirfield and Wakefield are popular areas for coarse fishing, roach, perch, chub, dace, minnows, gudgeon, pike, bream and trout. Between 1854 and 1870 the mortality rates in the Wakefield Infirmary averaged out to 9.94 per cent for in-patients and 3.18 per cent for out-patients. In 1968, the death of Colin Gilbert led to the railway company becoming the property of Sir Wavell Wakefield, who by that stage had become Lord Wakefield of Kendal. Almost immediately after this, in 1825, in partnership with a Leeds neighbour, William Beverley, he set up a production plant for this product in Kirkgate, Wakefield. The most famous plays of the Towneley collection are attributed to the Wakefield Master, an anonymous playwright who wrote in the fifteenth century. The teams who are, or have been, in Super League are Bradford Bulls, Castleford Tigers, Halifax, Huddersfield Giants, Leeds Rhinos, and Wakefield Trinity. At local level, the councils are generally divided, apart from the Wakefield district, which has long been one of the safest Labour councils in the country. In the magnesian limestone belt to the east of the Leeds and Wakefield areas is an elevated ridge with smoothly rolling scenery, dissected by dry valleys. Since 1987 it has been the headquarters of Wakefield City Council. Show More Sentences Before his death on 9 March 2017 he was working on two UK exhibitions, one at the Hepworth Wakefield, and another at the National Portrait Gallery. There are local stopping services operated by Northern linking Huddersfield with Barnsley, Bradford, Brighouse, Dewsbury, Halifax, Leeds, Sheffield and Wakefield. Samlesbury Engineering was a subsidiary of the Lancashire Aircraft Corporation at Warton which was chaired by Sir Wavell Wakefield, later Lord Wakefield of Kendal. Wakefield and Calderdale were also close to the England average. Double TWO shirts are based off the A638 in central Wakefield. Group Rhodes off the A638 in east Wakefield, make machine cells. It officially became part of the royal council machinery under the presidency of John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln in April 1484, based at Sandal Castle in Wakefield. The ensuing Battle of Wakefield was a complete Lancastrian victory. Coal mining was prolific in the south of the county during the 19th century and for most of the 20th century, particularly around Barnsley and Wakefield. The developing textile industry helped Wakefield and Halifax grow. A ragrugging workshop will be held at Huddersfield's Tolson Museum, on Wakefield Road, for anybody wanting to create their very own Christmas stocking. What impression is made on visitors when they have to complete their journey to the town on an overcrowded train from Leeds or a ramshackle museum piece from Wakefield? The senior casework manager described a protest outside the Wakefield office in which a group of 'justice campaigners' addressed her by megaphone. Examples from Classical Literature Of a flock of forty herdwick sheep given by Dr. Wakefield, the dogs killed twenty-seven at one time. He was born at Wakefield in Yorkshire, in 1825, one of a family of thirteen children. I want to beautify Wakefield, and as near as I can remember there is room for improvement. The delivery-wagons and their jehus were the only things that moved fast in Wakefield, now as then. With that he handed me 4s and I went down into Wakefield and got a good repast. Ten years ago, cosmetic surgeons Kenneth Paton and Michael Masser, were stabbed at Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield by Laith Alani. He later became vicar of Chapelthorpe in Wakefield and was also rural dean of Chevet in Wakefield for 11 years. His real name was Augustus, but he had been nicknamed Moses after Moses in the Vicar of Wakefield. Balaklava came into existence in 1849 as a stopover point between the Burra copper fields and the port at Port Wakefield. A RECENT day trip to Wakefield turned into a waiting game as two buses came and went without access for a wheelchair user. Gentleman Wakefield,' used to do the same of a Sunday as o' weekdays, and took no heed to right or wrong, as if there was nayther God nor devil. Bowyer, Brick, Martin, Constable, Broad Arrow, Salt, Lanthorn, Wakefield, Bell, Beauchamp, Devereaux and Flint? The dead have nearly as much chance of revisiting their earthly homes as the self-banished Wakefield. The book I mean is called The Vicar of Wakefield, and it was written by Oliver Goldsmith. Little time was lost in notifying Mr. Wakefield of the boys decision. Adjoining is the Wakefield Tower, with walls thirteen feet thick. These are the York, the Chester, the Wakefield, and the Coventry cycles. Its clinical-significance ratings rest on self-reports, which likely understate the personal havoc wreaked by various symptoms, Wakefield and Spitzer note. Perhaps the most interesting of them all are the Wakefield plays. Pausing near the house, Wakefield discerns, through the parlor windows of the second floor, the red glow and the glimmer and fitful flash of a comfortable fire. Find more words! 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