Example sentences of "[prep] the [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 | 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 |
| 8 | Armed with the new ball just before lunch , DeFreitas was then thrashed for 15 runs from the first over of his spell . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The first 15 overs yielded only 30 and the 100 did not come up until the 35th over . |
| 12 | Brian Lara hit 59 , the same score as opposition skipper Javed Miandad , who steered Pakistan to 199-5 in the final over . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Lisburn stayed on top of the Lombard & Ulster League with an exciting one wicket win in the final over against Bangor at Upritchard Park . |
| 18 | They needed two wickets in the final over but picked up only one as Hightown held out at 110–9 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In the fifth over came the controversy of the match as Gooch survived the run-out . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | Haden caught Lampitt bowled Tolley in the second over of the day … |
| 25 | Kevin Burns made 49 and Tim Watkins took 3–23 before Gareth Finney hit the winning runs in the penultimate over . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The 31 year old had seen Mike Watkinson and Phil DeFreitas dropped in the same over . |
| 28 | Then Fairbrother lobbed Andrew to Such at mid-wicket , Graham Lloyd was lbw in the same over , and two overs later Speak was caught behind one run short of his first century of the season . |
| 29 | Carrick in the end never got his hands to an enormous skier by Harden to mid-wicket , and in the same over from Peter Hartley another high one from Rose was grassed by Batty . |
| 30 | Cup final nerves got the better of Benson who had guided Leicester to Lord 's in the last over of the semi-final against Essex . |