Example sentences of "over [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The batsman drove the last ball of the over for four , and the bowler kicked the ground in exasperation . |
| 3 | Falling one over short in any of the preliminary round games will cost £775 and every over after that , £1,080 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Any magnification of over × 7 will start to resolve it , and with × 20 many stars in it can be seen . |