1.   Black rain clouds were riding up from the south, killing the light and making the day seem almost over.

2.   Last October his political career seemed over when, at its Harrogate conference, the party adopted a proabortion stance, which he believed to be repugnant.

3.   But the turmoil seems over now.

4.   But they will not be prepared to make such sacrifices over indirect challenges or over what seem to them to be abstract moral imperatives.

5.   But, at least for the moment, his days as a flamboyant buyer seem over.

6.   Collapse, he said, seemed just over the horizon.

7.   For an animal from Down Under, that seems over the top.

8.   Gore seemed in over his head.

9.   Meanwhile, pleather may seem over the top for kids.

10.   Mike Maddux had pitched six strong innings, and with a rested bullpen, the night seemed over.