(1) If, like me, you've been wondering why the wonderful new sculpture outside Bull's Head Car Park has been covered with a heavy green tarpaulin since its installation last year, wonder no more.

(2) Endless hours of coverage of a grey Wimbledon with green tarpaulin over the courts does little to promote the tournament as one of the great sporting events of the 21st century.

(3) The sun was quite low when the train pulled into another yard, and he had covered them with tarpaulin once again.

(4) They've got the walls as solid as a rock and a roof on it under that tarpaulin .

(5) The three-and-a-half-hour struggle to make the area safe ended when the fire crews managed to get tarpaulin over the roof and made the ground debris safe.

(6) Crews have covered the roof with salvage tarpaulin to protect the house from the weather while repairs are made.

(7) She heaved at the rolled up black tarpaulin , hoping that the rope would keep her tent together as it fell into her arms.

(8) Eyewitnesses said the vehicle was covered in tarpaulin to prevent onlookers seeing the body.

(9) The shingles are no great problem; I've shaken hands on a deal to have the house and garage roof replaced in the autumn and if I get a major leak before then all I need do is make a call and they'll hop on over with a large blue tarpaulin .

(10) A quantity of drugs were recovered from the house and a high-value car, which was found covered by tarpaulin in the front garden, was removed to be stripped down and examined.

(11) He was fast asleep, huddled under a canvas tarpaulin .

(12) The trucks were dusty and neglected, their tyres rotting and flat and sinking into the ground, but when the two ladies pulled back a tarpaulin , they found that the trucks were full of gems and precious stones and pearls and gold coins.

(13) We spent the night out under the stars, about 30 of us rolled up in our tarpaulin , with a circle of colourful flags and our GE Free banners surrounding us.

(14) The tiles were covered in tarpaulin and pegged down while the police were informed.

(15) He was wearing a ripped coat, tied up with string at the waist, and he sat with his feet tucked under his legs on an exposed crate, the tarpaulin turned back neatly around him.

(16) A stretch of roof is covered with tarpaulin

(17) New Malden firefighters, sitting out during the strike in a hut made of wooden pallets and tarpaulin in front of the station, remained defiant but uncertain what the stoppage would bring.

(18) Moments later he reappeared with a large plastic tarpaulin , a box of nails and several lengths of rough carcassing.

(19) In Kindamba he improvised a splint from palm branches and asked a carpenter to make another, around which tarpaulin would be wrapped.

(20) The cause of the crash was not clear although a set of wheels came off the final carriage and investigators covered a set of points immediately behind the accident scene with blue tarpaulin , suggesting a fault on either train or track.