Example sentences of "[prep] water over " in BNC.
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| 1 | I quickly poured the kettle full of water over them , then the contents of all four saucepans . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Political in the sense that if I threw this glass of water over you in an interview , that would be a political act . |
| 4 | He looked so miserable I decided to cheer him up by inviting him to join our little game , and started throwing handfuls of water over him . |
| 5 | ‘ Just think of all those tons and tons of water over oor heads . |
| 6 | But Ludens became aware that Irina was now quietly crying , quietly and continuously her tears streamed down , not like a waterfall , but like the gentle slide of water over smooth stone . |
| 7 | A device which aims to make the flow of water over the daggerboard slot as smoothly as possible . |
| 8 | ‘ Chuck a couple of buckets of water over him , we might be able to recognise what it is , ’ Yanto suggested . |
| 9 | He played a gentle stream of water over the specimen in his hand . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In fact , if you have a cold greenhouse or well-lit shed , I think there is a good case for removing all containerised aquatic plants and overwintering them in trays just deep enough to allow an inch of water over the compost in the pots . |
| 12 | The important factors are the amount of media surface for bacteria to coat ; the flow of water over this media ; and the amount of oxygen reaching the media . |
| 13 | In the same pan , dissolve the sugar in one tablespoon of water over a low heat , then cook until just beginning to turn golden . |
| 14 | TWO screaming children threw cups of water over their burning father after he set himself on fire . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The unnamed pensioner , limping with a walking stick , was cheered as he hurled a jug of water over the 47-year-old boss . |
| 17 | A tall woman leaned from a balcony and emptied a bucket of water over them . |
| 18 | This improved the flow of water over the tentacles . |
| 19 | This artificial ash cliff is perhaps one of their last strongholds have also found refuge around our fire stations , protected from tramping feet and sheltered from chemical sprays these rare plants thrive in the damp salty margins alongside the ash lagoons all this within the boundaries with just a few of the country 's coal fired power stations but the need for sea walls of other coastal stations merely intake pipes to the coaling system , another world teams this is not a plant , fan worms have flowerlike mouth parts used to filter food from the sea water other worms use just two sticky tentacles to catch food shrimps forage over closely packed sea the delicate bodies of these printed vertebrates work as tiny water pumps , pulling water in one hole and pumping it through the other here two barnacles feed in the gentle flow of water over the cooling pipes from the station Marine life quickly packs the underwater structures and is about to become too thick and sometimes affect the performance of the machinery barnacles belong to the same family as crabs and lobsters , but being in their adult life standing on their head which is fixed to the concrete they use their feet to filter the water and kick food into their mouths but if they ca n't move , how do they get there so quickly in the first place ? |
| 20 | The children carrying out the work about evaporation were given the opportunity to watch the tank of water over several weeks , noting their thoughts and observations in a class log book . |
| 21 | A punch would be delivered and Ricky , thinking this had ended the row would take himself off to bed only to find the next minute that Minton was emptying a bottle of water over him . |
| 22 | Trident sell the popular rippled ‘ drainpipe ’ -like material Flocor which appears to be mainly aimed at free movement of water over its surface . |
| 23 | He stood there a while longer , mindlessly enjoying the flow of water over his limbs . |
| 24 | ‘ Three of us carried you , and I was one of the three , and I had to tip a jug of water over you next morning to wake you . ’ |
| 25 | Melt the plain chocolate with three tablespoons of water over a pan of hot water . |
| 26 | There 's oceans of water over there , " she waved towards the marble-topped wash-hand stand . |
| 27 | She swished her fingertips through her hair and sent a spray of water over me . |
| 28 | It related to an incident last August in Manchester Road Swindon when Mr Neilsen threw a bucket of water over a prostitute , Rachel Symonds . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Dish , dish of water over that 'll do . |