Example sentences of "[art] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The South Africans were asking the umpires in the West Indies whether they had received their one for the over . |
| 2 | When the over ended he took the umpire aside and explained ‘ I have two artificial hips and I do not really know where my feet are going to land ’ — he was given a special Man of the Match award . |
| 3 | The batsman drove the last ball of the over for four , and the bowler kicked the ground in exasperation . |
| 4 | The bowler took none too kindly to the official warning from umpire Roy Palmer , and imagined that his sweater was returned to him at the end of the over in an insulting manner . |
| 5 | Only the second ball of the over was not hit for four . |
| 6 | The batsman failed to survive the over though , Gooch managing to hold onto a slip catch . |
| 7 | A 6′ 4″ natural athlete from Eastbourne who spent the winter slumming it as a ski-guide on the slopes of Meribel , he completed the over when Jones limped out of Lancashire 's victory quest at Hove , then proceeded to halt the charge with a career-best 5 for 54 . |
| 8 | to that knacker 's yard for the over spent |
| 9 | His team-mate Terence Lazard was not out with 108 , and few gave EP much chance of matching a rate of 5.5 runs to the over . |
| 10 | Calculate the over or under-absorbed overhead for each cost centre . |
| 11 | No , I guess checking on the number of balls left in the over I think . |
| 12 | Falling one over short in any of the preliminary round games will cost £775 and every over after that , £1,080 . |
| 13 | ‘ We did n't think , for instance , it should be necessary for umpires to inspect the ball every over in all levels of cricket — that would only waste time . |
| 14 | The umpires check it at the end of every over . |
| 15 | He took three audacious fours off an over from Hemmings , and the loss of Vengsarkar , flicking at one of Fraser 's worst deliveries , did nothing to sober him up . |
| 16 | The fact that Holding ( who had 6 for 65 in the first innings ) and Julien conceded four an over from 34 overs and the spinners only just over two an over from 105 was of less significance than the spinners ' inability to bowl batsmen out . |
| 17 | The fact that Holding ( who had 6 for 65 in the first innings ) and Julien conceded four an over from 34 overs and the spinners only just over two an over from 105 was of less significance than the spinners ' inability to bowl batsmen out . |
| 18 | Needing to score quickly , West Indies made 176 at nearly five an over , despite some fine bowling from Snow , when Lloyd declared with five wickets down , setting England the task of surviving for five and a quarter hours or scoring 339 to win . |
| 19 | Roberts 's fifty included an over from Botham from which he hit twenty-four runs ( 462660 ) , a new Test record for a six-ball over , and Lloyd finally declared on the third morning at 426 for 9 . |
| 20 | When Lamb played five balls of an over defensively and then ran two off the last , it was clear that he was just settling for his hundred , and since Terry immediately succumbed Lamb was criticized for exposing him , rather than trying to keep the strike . |
| 21 | Inevitably , he bowled relentlessly on , never looked like getting anywhere , and the last four wickets put on 183 as Marshall , Harper and Holding enjoyed themselves at almost five an over . |
| 22 | Off just 39 balls he made 82 astonishing runs , and the innings closed on 229 , setting England a run rate of 6.2 an over . |
| 23 | Devon Malcolm was not sparing himself on a pitch which was offering help to all the bowlers but Waugh seemed to have a ridiculous amount of time to ease him through the leg field twice in an over for two of his 10 boundaries . |
| 24 | Paddling out at real Waimea was the equivalent of squaring up to an over from Harold Larwood and finding you had forgotten your box and pads . |
| 25 | The batsmen now change gear and for the next 25 overs try to raise their run-scoring — ‘ strike-rate ’ in television jargon — to five or six an over without conceding more that three of four wickets . |
| 26 | It is not unheard of in these anarchical circumstances for batsmen to score 20 runs in an over . |
| 27 | His three fours in an over from Gladstone Small were perhaps the statistical highlight , but it was his running between the wickets that really caught the eye . |
| 28 | Many a kite has been lost out to sea from a beach site , or into treetops from the local park , as the result of an over stressed and broken line . |
| 29 | And then put up with Geoffrey Boycott saying ‘ Dear oh dear oh dear that were a terrible shot ’ twice an over ? |
| 30 | A comparison with the total income tax due will disclose either an over or under payment of income tax . |