Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun] of water over " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stood there a while longer , mindlessly enjoying the flow of water over his limbs . |
| 2 | A punch would be delivered and Ricky , thinking this had ended the row would take himself off to bed only to find the next minute that Minton was emptying a bottle of water over him . |
| 3 | ‘ Three of us carried you , and I was one of the three , and I had to tip a jug of water over you next morning to wake you . ’ |
| 4 | A replacement will be announced in the next few days , while it has emerged that Donald Carr , who once as England captain poured a bucket of water over a Pakistani umpire , was proposed as referee for the recent Pakistan-Sri Lanka series — and like Graveney , was not surprisingly rejected . |
| 5 | It related to an incident last August in Manchester Road Swindon when Mr Neilsen threw a bucket of water over a prostitute , Rachel Symonds . |
| 6 | A tall woman leaned from a balcony and emptied a bucket of water over them . |
| 7 | This improved the flow of water over the tentacles . |
| 8 | The children carrying out the work about evaporation were given the opportunity to watch the tank of water over several weeks , noting their thoughts and observations in a class log book . |
| 9 | She swished her fingertips through her hair and sent a spray of water over me . |
| 10 | In fact , if you have a cold greenhouse or well-lit shed , I think there is a good case for removing all containerised aquatic plants and overwintering them in trays just deep enough to allow an inch of water over the compost in the pots . |
| 11 | ‘ I would like to think that any sort of physical abuse does n't go on any more , but this does not mean that people might not get a bucket of water over them sometimes . ’ |
| 12 | Half an hour before Alisdair got up , she moved the porridge to the back of the fire and put a pot of water over the flames , she was roughly on time at the moment so there might not be trouble after all . |
| 13 | Obviously throwing a bucket of water over them is n't going to do a lot of good , so if there is a likelihood of it happening , you 'll need to be prepared . |
| 14 | A device which aims to make the flow of water over the daggerboard slot as smoothly as possible . |
| 15 | The unnamed pensioner , limping with a walking stick , was cheered as he hurled a jug of water over the 47-year-old boss . |