Example sentences of "water [adv prt] of a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was in the middle of wringing the water out of a red rayon skirt she had been washing at the kitchen sink . |
| 2 | Depending on how the aircraft is flown , if the mixture is leaned right off , fuel burn will go down to about 80 gallons an hour , but at maximum take-off power the aircraft will burn almost 300 gallons an hour , which at one gallon ever 12 seconds is quicker than one can get water out of a household tap ! |
| 3 | This was the first commercially successful steam engine and was used for pumping water out of a mine . |
| 4 | When the autumn gales blew you could see the smoke being sucked out through the wall like water out of a leaky bucket . |
| 5 | She shot him a black look and squeezed the water out of a bandage viciously . |