Example sentences of "one over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Falling one over short in any of the preliminary round games will cost £775 and every over after that , £1,080 . |
| 2 | At the same time , it was accepted that all the talks , petitions , donations and arguments had been brought about by the imminence of the Commonwealth Conference , where the Secretary-General , Sonny Ramphal , has warned that Britain may find itself in a minority of one over South Africa . |
| 3 | Given the particular disposition of the policeman or woman and the nature of the case , court duty can become an opportunity for them to have a ‘ good fight ’ , and pleasure can be taken in ‘ getting one over the solicitor ’ . |
| 4 | The Hic Mulier figure ( an abstraction ) is a vehicle for a variety of defences of the transvestite , radical and conservative , and there is no good reason , given the genre , to privilege the one over the others as more truthful , more sincere , more representative , or to be dismayed that some of these arguments are incompatible with each other . |
| 5 | Yet if Leonard 's fleet feet were still part of his youthfulness , there were signs of bodily frailty ; he bore the only real wounds of the contest , a cut to the lip sustained early on and a more serious one over the left eye in the 11th round . |
| 6 | The number two there , Patrick Fairweather , is no Arabist ( to the extent that , after winning a point at one Foreign Office meeting , he exclaimed : ‘ Great to win one over the [ expletive deleted ] camels ! ’ ) . |
| 7 | A servant is one over whom the employer reserves the control and direction of the mode in which the work is to be done . |
| 8 | The Woman loomed over the group , tall and brown and smiling down at the two mops of black hair — one over a quizzical smile and the other over a scowl . |
| 9 | Certainly not for creeps like that one over there . |
| 10 | It takes skill and judgement and sometimes a compromise is not possible — you may have to choose one over the other . |
| 11 | The huge one over there is his , too . |
| 12 | All that matters is getting one over the trader . |
| 13 | It was , for all that , quite a struggle for Ballesteros before he at last got his game together over the closing holes for a halfway total of 143 , two ahead of Olazabal , who was one over par for the 36 holes . |
| 14 | If your trust deed gives the grandchildren certain rights and does not allow the trustees to favour one over the other then only the basic rate of 25 p.c. should apply . |
| 15 | However , no one over the age of 66 who has not already claimed mobility allowance can now do so , even if they were unable to walk well before 65 and there is good cause for making a late claim . |
| 16 | They take no one over 65 , and retirement at 70 is obligatory . |
| 17 | ‘ There was no Albert Bridge then , ’ recalled Ben Bellaser , ‘ to span the river and ride over the ancient town with its oppressive grandeur , and the moon was rising and lighting up the shore and houses as they rose one over the other in terrace fashion against the dark blue starry sky ’ . |
| 18 | There is a very sound reason for this in that depreciation is not a cash item and is one over which the departmental manager has little control . |
| 19 | As Heather was not a boy this latter did not really concern us , although I thought I was sure Blessed St John wept with the little one over the circumcision he had , of course , had himself . |
| 20 | And high frequencies must be used to carry a number of TV channels because each is 8 MHz wide and they are ‘ stacked ’ one over the other in the frequency spectrum . |
| 21 | Thus , unionised groups of workers are seen to be leap-frogging one over the other in the struggle to keep real wages rising . |
| 22 | As well as proving to Anthea he meant business , it would put one over that nauseating Toby Latimer in no mean fashion . |
| 23 | Those who know no better probably reckon they can put one over Mary , passing her off as a cups-of-tea , rustic East Country accent , down-home , fund-raising type . |
| 24 | But rather than saying , ‘ Sorry mate , you 'll have to wait for it to be repaired , ’ Doug said , ‘ Take that one over there ! ’ pointing to an equivalent amp . |
| 25 | This Autumn two victories in smaller races at Auteuil — one over timber , the other over the larger obstacles — readied him for a trip to Newbury for the Hennessy , his first outing in handicap company in Britain . |
| 26 | And the 26-year-old warned Roker fans last night : ‘ I 'd love to put one over Sunderland . |
| 27 | ‘ Here I am facing Liverpool in my first game as a fully-fledged Coventry player , so if I can put one over them , it will be the end of a perfect week . ’ |
| 28 | I hate tournaments where the leader is one over par . ’ |
| 29 | Do n't change from a manual system to a computerised one over the weekend . |
| 30 | This is an ideal chance to put one over the Americans after Saturday 's 7–0 thrashing at the Breeders ' Cup in the Florida heat . |