Sentence examples for over a drop from inspiring English sources

First Ellis's rep-lacement, Danny Care, knocked over a drop goal.

He has presided over a drop in interest rates to near zero and has helped mastermind bailout measures intended to rescue ailing financial institutions and car manufacturers.

But Sam Tomkins capitalised on a Wigan attack in first-half stoppage time to pop over a drop goal and they held that narrow lead for 14 minutes of compelling nip-and-tuck at the start of the second half.

Soon enough, though, an insistent Gloucester had their reward when Freddie Burns chipped over a drop goal from behind a ruck on the 22. Burns may only be in England's second-string Saxons squad but the 22-year-old fly-half is stringing together performances that make a good case for promotion.

Scott Murrell, another star of this excellent team performance who made one particularly memorable tackle on Craig Fitzgibbon, then chipped over a drop goal to ensure that 21-4 will join 10-5, the winning margin in that 1980 cup final, as a resonant scoreline on both sides of the river Hull.

It was only when McGuire, shrugging off the minor inconvenience of having three ribs cracked a few minutes earlier, snapped over a drop goal in the 77th minute that Sinfield visibly relaxed, and allowed himself to ponder the moment he has dreamed of since his only previous Wembley win – as an Oldham schoolboy in the early 1990s.

Leeds responded well and after Watkins put Hardaker away for their side's first points of the evening, Sinfield converted and then slotted over a penalty of his own to make it 8-8 before Walsh showed all his experience by kicking over a drop-goal on the hooter to hand Saints the slenderest of leads at the interval.

A Halfpenny penalty kept Wales in the contest before Barnes, benefiting from Genia's work-rate, showed composure to clip over a drop-goal.

Both sides committed errors as the tension rose but Brough stayed cool to clip over a drop-goal that settled it.

The first half was largely a scrappy affair but Wasps went in 16-6 after after centre Lee Thomas sent over a drop-goal on the stroke of half time.

A series of drives from the forwards gave Cooper the opportunity to pop over a drop-goal, but a daft offside from Adam Ashley-Cooper allowed Weepu to extend the lead to 14-6 with a penalty from 40 metres just before the interval.