Example sentences of "water [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly Muslims ( like Christians and unlike Hindus ) have set prayers which should be said during the day , so that Christian prayers can be regarded as a threat or at least an alternative to Islam , and secondly , while Hindu and Sikh parents often regard Christian prayers for their children as so much water off a duck 's back , Muslims , again like Christians or religious Jews , object to any other religious influence on their children . |
| 2 | Watch out for metal roofs and high ceilings : they 'll make the sound bounce around like water off a tin roof . |
| 3 | A hyper-sensitive fellow , such things cause him great and needless upset but to the rest of the band , it is largely water off a duck 's back , and they are dutifully protective of their singer , as are many of the people working around the band . |
| 4 | It was like water off a duck 's back to Nick , but I 'm sure it upset Paul . |
| 5 | But it 's all water off a duck 's back |
| 6 | Water off a duck 's back . |
| 7 | The problem is , as with all Salvadorean laws , it 's water off a duck 's back . |
| 8 | Everything else was just water off a duck 's back . ’ |
| 9 | It 's like water off a duck 's back . |
| 10 | Well our pits there 's a lot of water but it 's , it 's mostly body sweat and s I do get some water off a , a machine that I drive . |
| 11 | Water off a duck 's back . |
| 12 | Now remember some years ago , and I remember this , that we said that it would inadvisable to collect rain water off a new felt roof . |
| 13 | Now of course it would depend very much on and whether you were in a drought situation as we were until last year or whether it 's like we 've been over this last summer and early winter which is that virtually not a day has passed without we 've had some rain , in which case obviously the roof is going to get cleaned up very much quicker but I have to say that although I 've always been under the impression that it 's not a good idea to save water off a new felt roof er because of deposits that come off the mineral felt . |
| 14 | It was water off a duck 's back to him . |
| 15 | Water off a duck 's back . |
| 16 | Yes , Tuesdays , the accounts manager , I think if everybody wants to get that reaction , if that 's the regular reaction that they get , you know , people dumping on them all the time , it is water off a duck 's back , you take it more , you take it more on board if it is an occasional thing , . |
| 17 | I just think that even with what you 're saying , because , with his , with what , with Gary 's own , because they say especially with the students , it 's water off a duck 's back , but I do n't think . |
| 18 | A POTATO farmer named Greed was fined £150 yesterday for ‘ stealing ’ water during a heatwave . |
| 19 | The stomach was washed out with water during a 10 minute rest period and the procedure was repeated with the patient 's own bile stained duodenal juice . |
| 20 | For example , the shrine of Miyajima , a temple approached by water through a famous red gateway , ranks number three in Japan . |
| 21 | This is one is to pour the water through a colander ( we also use this for washing gravel ) . |
| 22 | The actual principle of trickling water through a ‘ dry ’ media is easy for the home handyman to set up . |
| 23 | You do not put oxygen into the water by bubbling-in air bubbles — what you do do is disturb the surface , and create greater gas exchange between air and water through a larger surface area of water being in contact with the air ( either at the surface or ‘ around ’ the bubbles . ) |
| 24 | This type of system works by pumping pond water through a quartz tube running parallel to an ultra violet germicidal lamp . |
| 25 | This forces water through a tube formed by the tongue pressed against a groove in the roof of the mouth . |
| 26 | Deuce leaned into the bath and turned on the golden taps which fed water through a central feed at a prodigious rate . |
| 27 | It moves by jet-propulsion , squirting water through a siphon in a variation of the current-creating technique developed by its filter-feeding relatives . |
| 28 | Pouring water through a shower head or ( clean ) watering can rose also helps to dissipate the chlorine . |
| 29 | The women 's natural exuberance returned to flow unchecked , like water through a dam . |
| 30 | They 'd no They 'd no electric or nothing there you see and they 'd water through a well . |