Example sentences of "[vb past] a [noun] of water over " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 It related to an incident last August in Manchester Road Swindon when Mr Neilsen threw a bucket of water over a prostitute , Rachel Symonds .
3 A tall woman leaned from a balcony and emptied a bucket of water over them .
4 She swished her fingertips through her hair and sent a spray of water over me .
5 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 .
6 The unnamed pensioner , limping with a walking stick , was cheered as he hurled a jug of water over the 47-year-old boss .
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