Example sentences of "water [noun pl] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The beck falls away under the bridge here in a short cascade and it was a pleasant spot to sit watching clouds crossing the sky and the breeze shaking the delicate water avens on the bank . |
| 2 | From the fashionable Muskoka resorts of the 1920s to white water enthusiasts on the Ottawa River today . |
| 3 | There were still two hours to go before high water springs on the sand bank . |
| 4 | Luxury for first class travellers : a sleeping car attendant delivers hot water bottles on the London-to-Inverness Express , January 1935 . |
| 5 | Inside , Mizzards is very prettily decorated ; antique furniture , water colours on the walls and Laura Ashley fabrics in the bedrooms . |
| 6 | We are an irreligious people , we do not see the silver water balloons on the trees and the tall beech trees clothed in their green armour of lichens like prophets . |
| 7 | The man who renamed a causeway across the front of the finest prospect of Snowdonia was actually given to carving breathless verses to the water sprites on the river cliffs at Dolgellau . |
| 8 | Those who were n't training water pistols on the other Rex , swung other weapons in the direction of the real thing . |
| 9 | It is true that water levels on the Alaskan coast , caused by tsunami , earthquake-related tidal waves , have risen over three hundred feet but this only happens when the sea-bed shallows close inshore : in the deep sea , although the tsunami can travel tremendously fast , two , perhaps three , hundred miles an hour , it 's rarely more than a ripple on the surface of the water . |
| 10 | Water levels on the Drowes are at summer level and 124 salmon were reported . |
| 11 | The water presses on the less-permeable confining layers above and below it . |
| 12 | But if I dare to retaliate … if even so much as a minute flick of water lands on the Monster 's piggy-pink face … |
| 13 | * However , a report by the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme puts anticipated sea level rise at 2 metres by 2100 , leading to a further diminution of fresh water supplies on the Pacific islands , which already face a shortage . |
| 14 | Well every , you know erm I can remember the time er when I first went and they used to have silver er plated of course , silver plated water jugs on the counter and silver plated sugar bowls with tongs and loaf sugar for people to use and of course well and when you see the war came along , you see , they were all taken away because , you see , we had troop trains we were up day and night so the troops with tea . |
| 15 | He had initially made braziers and water carriers on the estate of a European settler , who had persuaded him to manufacture in addition chisels and hammers . |
| 16 | Others , such as Eric Bremner , a 28-year-old physics teacher , had only decided to apply for water shares on the spur of the moment . |
| 17 | That they were popular can be shown by the water marks on the prints , some of which were reprinted repeatedly for 20 years . |