Example sentences of "[adj] over [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He mentioned a sum which would pay my rent until I 'd finished the helium balloon and leave some over for sandwiches . |
| 2 | I said , ‘ I believe there 's some over in the producer 's office . |
| 3 | Haden caught Lampitt bowled Tolley in the second over of the day … |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | ( They kept the latter over from ‘ World Clique ’ until it could appear in America on a less-wasteful Eco-Pac CD . ) |
| 7 | WITH REFERENCE to Robert Brooke 's letter ( WCM June ) regarding Geoff Humpage removing his pads to bowl at an early stage of a first-class match , on Saturday , July 17 , 1982 at Headingley he again removed his pads , and bowled the 12th over of the game . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | Armed with the new ball just before lunch , DeFreitas was then thrashed for 15 runs from the first over of his spell . |
| 11 | Oh perhaps I should just report briefly that erm the erm changing over of erm erm some stage twos from my sub team to other sub teams became a necessary when Fiona returned very shortly afterwards . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Firstly bringing his son Any over from the States and later marrying , he kept his development of Heirloom Crag ( map ref 377103 ) very much in the family . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | As I have mentioned above , the amount of immigration into the area has necessitated the passing over of land for new housing . |
| 21 | But the passing over of Neil Back leaves the Lions without a commodity of which they could find themselves in dire need . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 24 | Russell may be out of the England side , but he 's not down ; hitting a cracking 6 high into the crowd in the last over of the match . |