Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I was not prepared for the raking over of academic arguments on defining poverty around when John Moore , then Secretary of State for Social Services , said poverty no longer existed . |
| 2 | Bowlers qualified for the final over the previous weekends to fill the 32 places in the double elimination final . |
| 3 | When he was out England had ten overs to score 39 , with five wickets left , and by the beginning of the penultimate over needed just seven with three wickets left . |
| 4 | Away goes David Lawrence the start of the fifty-ninth over of this innings , a hundred and thirty-eight for four he 's bowled to short outside the off stump , he lets that go through to Russell . |
| 5 | At the start of the final over , England wanted five to win . |
| 6 | SA , dismissed for 130 in the first innings , reached their target from the fourth ball of the final over , when Peter Sleep , in his testimonial season , inside-edged the winning single towards wicketkeeper Ian Healy off Queensland captain Carl Rackemann . |
| 7 | In 1976 he told listeners to the West Indies Test at the start of a new over , ‘ The bowler 's Holding , the batsman 's Willey . ’ |
| 8 | But a bowler who does not break down at the end of every other over and who can finish each season with an average around the 25 mark would be worth his weight in gold now . |
| 9 | A cricket landmark vanishes with the final over for Gover Matthew Engel pays tribute to the academy which kept a straight bat for 61 years |
| 10 | Holding started it with a blistering over of flat-out speed that accounted for Boycott , after which no one passed 26 and they were all out for 122 , with Croft again the leading wicket-taker . |
| 11 | Armed with the new ball just before lunch , DeFreitas was then thrashed for 15 runs from the first over of his spell . |
| 12 | A fifth-wicket partnership between Barber ( 50 ) and Broom ( 36 no ) put Waltham in with an outside chance , but the run rate crept up and 15 from the last over was too much . |
| 13 | On a turgid turner that had thwarted the seamers ' efforts until the 199th over of the match , Essex required a further 29 to avoid the follow-on on the final morning with four wickets intact , only to be denied by a spell of 3 for 1 in 14 deliveries that ultimately allowed Nick Cook to give the hosts ( and Britannic Assurance Championship leaders ) a right old grilling in the second dig ; but for Ambrose he might never have had the chance . |
| 14 | The first 15 overs yielded only 30 and the 100 did not come up until the 35th over . |
| 15 | Brian Lara hit 59 , the same score as opposition skipper Javed Miandad , who steered Pakistan to 199-5 in the final over . |
| 16 | The turning point for England was provided by Stewart , in the final over before tea , when the accomplished DeSilva aimed a leg glance at Jarvis . |
| 17 | There was similar ‘ first time ’ success for Scotland 's Barry McColl , who won his first national title with a win in the final over Justin Layne 6–1 , 6–1 . |
| 18 | Paul Davison , winner of the second division singles last season and the third division in 1990 , added the first division title with a win in the final over Fred Button . |
| 19 | Dawson made 46 before falling to a well-judged catch by David Hemp and Simon Hinks joined Hodgson to raise the 200 , but was caught behind for 19 off Watkin in the final over of the day . |
| 20 | Lisburn stayed on top of the Lombard & Ulster League with an exciting one wicket win in the final over against Bangor at Upritchard Park . |
| 21 | They needed two wickets in the final over but picked up only one as Hightown held out at 110–9 . |
| 22 | Byas hit 80 before being out in the final over and White was left unbeaten on 52 , the fifth-wicket pair smashing their way to 119 in 15 overs . |
| 23 | The turning point for England was provided by Stewart , in the final over before tea , when the accomplished DeSilva aimed a leg glance at Jarvis . |
| 24 | In the fifth over came the controversy of the match as Gooch survived the run-out . |
| 25 | Slow left-armer Tufnell had just removed opener Navjot Sidhu for 79 in the 13th over of the day , to leave India 174 for two , when Kambli charged Emburey but failed to connect properly . |
| 26 | Wisden records that ‘ on five of the eight occasions on which Gatting changed the bowling , the man brought on took a wicket in the first over of his spell ’ . |
| 27 | Haden caught Lampitt bowled Tolley in the second over of the day … |
| 28 | Kevin Burns made 49 and Tim Watkins took 3–23 before Gareth Finney hit the winning runs in the penultimate over . |
| 29 | Mujtaba , reaching forward , inside-edged Mallender , and Pringle , bowling with equally miserly accuracy , bowled the patient Ramiz through the gate and , in the same over , persuaded Miandad to pop a gentle bat-pad catch to Smith . |
| 30 | The 31 year old had seen Mike Watkinson and Phil DeFreitas dropped in the same over . |