How To Use West country In A Sentence
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That genial smile, the fisherman's countenance, the soft burr - George Baker could only come from the West Country.
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Though his truck is a picture of driving comfort, Mr McAuliffe is far from lax about the responsibilities he carries in carting thousands of litres of fuel across the Mid West countryside.
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Our small bale haylage is made in the west country using perennial ryegrass, packed into 20 kg bales which means easy to handle transparent bales.
Horse & Hound Online news
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Argus returned to the West Country in May last year, and began her refit at the A & P Falmouth Shipyard in September.
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Europe's newest country is experiencing a youthquake.
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One might add that there are other archetypal instruments, such as the West Country bullroarer known as the humbuz, that deserve to be studied by the student of dialect and folklore as well as by the musicologist.
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It might have been a trilled sound as in modern Scots, but from the descriptions at the time I think it's more likely to have been a retroflex one - that is, one where the tip of the tongue is curled back, as in a lot of American and West Country speech.
Archive 2007-01-01
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The West Country dialect smacks as much of the farmyard as the patois of the French peasant, or the even more deliberate drawl of the Texan cattleman.
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Cope's accent is all over the place: part-Liverpudlian, part-American, but not much of a West Country burr and no trace of the Wales he was spirited from as a kid.
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It was all delivered in a broad West Country accent.
Seminary Boy
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Avast, me pretties, it be 'Talk Like a Pirate' day, where people, what whom should be in the ways of knowing better, if y 'mark me meaning, go round talking in mangled West Country accents what with the passing "yar" thrown in the mix.
19th September '07
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Cyril learnt this version in his native West Country from his mother and this goes to show how difficult it is to regionalise folk songs because she learnt it from her Grandmother, Mary Sharkey, in
Broken Token (2)
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It was all delivered in a broad West Country accent.
Seminary Boy
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Her accent is a mixture of English cockney and West Country.
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Another and very different form of thunderbolt is the belemnite, a common English fossil often preserved in houses in the west country with the same superstitious reverence as the neolithic hatchets.
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
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Clune delivers the line with a soft West Country burr and adds, ‘That's what I'm going to call my show: Boy Crazy.’
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You can stay at a "dude ranch, " an Old West country hotel.
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If you fancy touring further afield, both the Cotswolds and the West Country are within easy reach.
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Izzard will play the infamous one-legged pirate in Sky1's new version of Robert Louis Stevenson's tale of 18th-century treasure hunting and skulduggery in the west country and the Caribbean.
Eddie Izzard to play Long John Silver in Sky's Treasure Island
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West Country lambs are particularly large, and the joint is packed with meat all the way to the top of the chop.
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He also had a disinterested fascination with the records of the middle ages, especially those of the west country.
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Willy Wilton died, the first casualty among the West Country people, though not of the mumpish disease.
Morgan’s Run
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It was the timeless quality of a pretty West Country village that persuaded the poet TS Eliot to immortalise it in his Nobel award-winning Four Quartets.
East Coker, TS Eliot's placid village, resists threat of housing invasion
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I thought I could detect a slight West Country accent.
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I thought I could detect a slight West Country accent.
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Also put on hold were plans for two bungalows at West Country Lodge, Cherry Tree Avenue, Clacton.
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The South, the West Country and the Midlands bore the brunt of the weather, but the rain - driven by gale-force south-westerly winds - caused river levels in Yorkshire to rise rapidly.
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West Country apple growers are warning of a cider drought after floods damaged or destroyed thousands of trees.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was all delivered in a broad West Country accent.
Seminary Boy
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He has a property in the West Country.
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Made from quality pork liver and pork, Mr Brain's faggots are prepared in a delicious West Country sauce and are available in major supermarkets nationwide in packs of two, four and six.
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And it was on his behalf, to uphold his fantastic claim, that these West Country clods, led by a few armigerous Whigs, had been seduced into rebellion!
Captain Blood
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They sold up and retired to the West Country.
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The incident occurred almost exactly two years after a father and his daughter were killed in another west country speedboat accident on the May Day weekend.
Times, Sunday Times
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I thought I could detect a slight West Country accent.
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He was labelled ‘Sunny Jim’, but he had a fierce temper, and his patience, despite his seemingly easy-going avuncular manner and soft West Country drawl, was easily frayed.
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The TV investigation, Running The Gauntlet, is being broadcast in two parts tonight and next week in the West Country.
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West Country apple growers are warning of a cider drought after floods damaged or destroyed thousands of trees.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was all delivered in a broad West Country accent.
Seminary Boy
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Scrumpy is the West Country name for cider, produced by the natural fermentation of apple juice; all you need is a press, a few barrels and a lot of apples.
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In the west country a few burials of this date in stone-lined cists are known, and around the river Humber a localized tradition of inhumation burials under square barrows developed.
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Having lived alone for years - working in London and weekending at her house in the West Country - she has, she admits, become quite selfish.
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It was all delivered in a broad West Country accent.
Seminary Boy
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However, the real success story has been in the West Country - where towns such as Bath and Bristol have pulled in the tourists as well as local epicureans.
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A big attraction of the West Country for many second home owners is the opportunity it offers for waterside living.
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Bowring was not a career diplomat, but a West Country ironmaster.
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I thought I could detect a slight West Country accent.
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Yes, it's the West Country burr which makes that rrrrrr sound.
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The South, the West Country and the Midlands bore the brunt of the weather, but the rain - driven by gale-force south-westerly winds - caused river levels in Yorkshire to rise rapidly.
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Closer to home, in England's West Country, a man woke with a start when he found a deer lurking in his bedroom after a night of heavy downpours and gale force winds.
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The West Country is the part of Britain most visited by walkers and nature lovers, but until now they have had to make do with a patchy network of footpaths and coastal walks.
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Gosh, it's over a year since I read The Moving Toyshop; here Gervase Fen is embroiled in a mystery of murder and espionage in a West Country cathedral town in about 1940.
January Books 27) Holy Disorders, by Edmund Crispin
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The applicant was a doubly incontinent tetraplegic lady living in a nursing home in the west country.
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As East Timor becomes the world's newest country it is also emerging as a tourist destination.
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Swindon train operator First Great Western, which runs services from London to Wales and the west country, has announced fare rises for 2005.
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The west country raider is the most consistent.
The Sun
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Most of Philip's cheese comes from the west country, and once a month he gets up at the ungodly hour of 4.30 am for a round trip of the region in his refrigerated van.
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He spoke in a soft West Country burr.
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Walk through the mountains, bogs, and coastal islands of Ireland's picturesque West Country.
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It was all delivered in a broad West Country accent.
Seminary Boy
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Find yourself sporting oversized gold earrings/exotic birdlife on your shoulder and speaking in a comically inauthentic West Country accent?
Esther Addley's diary
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The 'Hi-Ho, the derry-o' is variously replaced with 'Ee-i, tiddly-i' in London, 'Ee-i, andio' (for instance in Northern England), and 'Ee-i, ee-i' (for instance in the West Country).
Dell at Michelangelo's.
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The West Country is fast becoming a foodie haven with many new restaurants opening up that make good use of fabulous local produce.
Times, Sunday Times
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Behind the carriage there rode a hundred or more noblemen and gentlemen of the west country, and then a line of gigs, tilburies, and carriages wound away down the Grinstead road as far as our eyes could follow it.
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But with those out of the way chaps and chapesses, we hope to hear some West Country 'burrs' at the Saturday evening social!
The British National Party
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The final straw was being sent to the West Country on an assignment to write about the biggest hamburger in the world.
Times, Sunday Times
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More than half of the students come from the West Country and the university has broadened its intake in recent years.
Times, Sunday Times