Example sentences of "[verb] a bucket [prep] water [prep] " 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 | Distinguish between the rainwater drains and foul drains by flushing toilets and observing the manholes , then by pouring a bucket of water into external rainwater gullies . |
| 4 | A tall woman leaned from a balcony and emptied a bucket of water over them . |
| 5 | I had to throw throw a bucket of water at the door to show them . |
| 6 | My father , six kids on a Friday night , we used to put a bucket of water on the hot sink , on the old gas stove and my father used to bath us six kids in front of the fire . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A girl from a neighbouring school came to the victim 's aid by throwing a bucket of water from a flower stall over his assailants . |
| 10 | Mr Delmo Vigna , who was lying in bed in his first-floor flat when the bomb went off , said : ‘ Just 20 minutes earlier , I had stuck my head out of the window to throw a bucket of water on the street to clean it . |