Example sentences of "the ball [adv] over " in BNC.

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1 He is not quite as good as Mike Gatting , who works the ball all along the ground on both sides of the wicket , but Graham now has no fear of stepping down the track to any spinner and planting the ball firmly over long-on .
2 Seconds later Blues ' midfielder Lee Doherty headed the ball just over the Reds ' crossbar from Stephen Beatty 's left wing cross .
3 Sheedy 's trusty left foot did the trick , taking Robert Lee 's pass in his stride to coax Ian Bennett off his line and chip the ball coolly over the Posh keeper 's head .
4 Although he was hitting the ball all over the place in practice , Seve was figuring out which side of the fairways to miss on a lot of holes , and places where he could n't go at all .
5 He could not resist showing off , hitting the ball all over the court and making her run around until she was pink with the effort and furious with herself for getting into such an undignified situation .
6 It must be summer the sound of willow on leather , the rattle of the scoreboard as Australian batsmen yet again plaster the ball all over another English Cricket Ground .
7 You get another player like Jimmy White , wonderful player to watch , I mean , you know , flashes the ball all over the place , knocks it in , wonderful player , er and has won a lot of championships , but Jimmy 's a totally different character , does n't practice anywhere near as much as Steve Davis .
8 In one last , massed Hearts attack Levein headed downwards and Robertson touched the ball on before Martin stopped the ball apparently over the goal-line .
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