He crossed the field, thundered down the sideline, out of the grasp, across the goal line, into the tunnel.

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You turned off a quiet narrow lane onto an indistinct track that crossed a field, and stopped at the edge of an ancient pollarded wood, and there, half hidden by a tangle of hawthorn bushes, was a small white picket gate.

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Crunch went the snow as he crossed the soccer field.

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GoalRef, meanwhile, uses a magnetic field and a special ball to determine whether a ball has completely crossed the line or not.

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The seven-time world champion, 37, crossed the line 10.131 seconds clear of the field, lapping all but the top seven, for his second consecutive victory.

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Next week I'll hopefully be bringing you a winning report from Newbury and, fingers crossed, news of a less arduous week on the training field!

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When he crossed the line after 9.63 seconds he was a good meter ahead of the field.

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With a bigger field this year, play is in danger of being even slower and organisers can only keep their fingers crossed when it comes to the vagaries of the Scottish weather in October.

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The most persuasive evidence that Voyager 1 has crossed the termination shock is its measurement of a sudden increase in the strength of the magnetic field carried by the solar wind, combined with an inferred decrease in its speed.

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