Example sentences of "an over " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It is not unheard of in these anarchical circumstances for batsmen to score 20 runs in an over . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And then put up with Geoffrey Boycott saying ‘ Dear oh dear oh dear that were a terrible shot ’ twice an over ? |
| 16 | A comparison with the total income tax due will disclose either an over or under payment of income tax . |
| 17 | Prabhakar received two bouncers in an over from McDermott , the second of which was called a no-ball under the new regulation . |
| 18 | Both McDermott and Border queried the decision with umpire McConnell , and shortly afterwards umpire Darrell Hair , standing in his first Test , had to no-ball Hughes for his second bouncer of an over , again to the adhesive Prabhakar . |
| 19 | Lewis donated a no-ball an over in his first spell , but seemed to learn from Pringle , slowed down , gained more movement leg to off from the pitch , and became even more dangerous . |
| 20 | Earlier , on May 23 , David Conlon struck six sixes in an over for Huyton against Liverpool rivals Sefton . |
| 21 | Former Glamorgan offspinner Phil North hit 34 in an over on his way to his maiden century for Newport in their Western League match against Brislington : he later took 6 for 60 . |
| 22 | Salim Malik had played on when former Essex team-mate Gooch slipped in an inswinger , and when Malcolm bowled a second bouncer in an over to Inzamam-ul-Haq , umpire Palmer no-balled him . |
| 23 | Is there an over — kill of information ? |
| 24 | That 's called an over . |
| 25 | It 's the fucking Nazis an over again . |
| 26 | As he watched her , he suddenly thought how childish it had been to imagine you could play number three for Somerset just because you 'd once made seventeen in an over off the indifferent bowling of Philpott , A.J. |
| 27 | Set a daunting 248 to win by the tourists , New Zealand were struggling at 94 for four and needing to score at over seven runs an over , but Crowe and a timely 44 not out off 28 balls by teenager Jeff Wilson saw the Kiwis home at 250 for seven . |
| 28 | Robin Haire and Adrian Semple made sure of knocking off the remaining runs , leaving them with an over and a half to spare . |
| 29 | He survived a fiery burst from Wasim Akram , then cracked DeFreitas for three boundaries in an over . |
| 30 | Moxon and Byas took advantage of some mediocre bowling to score at five an over and lay the foundations for Yorkshire 's first limited overs score of more than 200 this season . |