Possible Clues:

• Trimmed privet, top being cut by daughter
• Trimmed, as the outskirts of the lawn
• Hit with side of bat given boundaries
• Moved furtively and avoided making commitment to ditch husband
• 'ummed and 'awed and got nicked
• Advanced slowly sideways
• Finished some landscaping
• Slipped past
• Daughter on border gets nicked
• Beat out by a hair