Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] water [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw the biggest , steepest cylinders of water I 'd ever seen from the relative sanctuary of the beach , and Pottz finally landed the world title . |
| 2 | Since mallards do not dive there was presumably no great competition between the two species for food but with over 100 birds on such a small stretch of water it was difficult to see how there could be enough to go round . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's a bucket of water they need , never mind swimming pools . ’ |
| 4 | I think perhaps I 'll just have a little bit of water I 'm very thirsty , I know I have n't |
| 5 | When it goes past I want to run over to the other side of the bridge , but there 's too much traffic to cross the road , so I just watch the trail of water it leaves behind . |
| 6 | Since the infra-red reflectance is strongly linked to the presence of water it was thought possible that unfiltered readings might not show the same decline — since to the eye at least the area does not decline until the onset of withering , which occurs only at a much later stage . |
| 7 | Aquaria are named by the type of water they contain — can you name the three most popular ? |
| 8 | The tackle should be compatible with the size of fish you hope to catch and the type of water you are trying to pull them from . |
| 9 | On this type of water it can become the luck of the draw with so many small fish out numbering the larger carp and it is difficult to be selective . |
| 10 | Later on , you can guide their play by , say , suggesting that they see how many little cups of water it takes to full the big jug , or by getting them to find out how long it takes to fill a floating cup with water until it sinks . |
| 11 | But instead of filtering food from huge quantities of water they have to extract it from a mass of indigestible vegetable matter . |
| 12 | buy , a drink of water you have to pay eight pound . |
| 13 | Detroit is shabby , poverty-ridden and struggling to keep its head above water It has a huge crime problem . |
| 14 | , that oh dear , you have to take this stuff with water it says , it is a horror one so I bought us some chocolate eclairs , have you got them ? |
| 15 | I accept that there have always been some problems , but if one keeps filling the pot with water it will overflow . |
| 16 | ‘ MANY as are the virtues of the Moon under Water I think that the garden is the best feature , because it allows whole families to go there instead of Mum having to stay at home and mind baby while Dad goes out alone . |
| 17 | When deuterium replaces hydrogen in water we have what is known as ‘ heavy water ’ , which occurs naturally in small amounts in sea water . |
| 18 | Erm I think what bothers a lot of us is the quality of water we get locally . |
| 19 | With a little drop of water it |
| 20 | They have no qualms about forcing member countries to spend money on water they might think could be better spent elsewhere . |
| 21 | And a fine rush of water he was using . ’ |
| 22 | We , when we were dredging , we were dredging now from Cliff Quay and er used to get all this er grey mud and erm and the chalk and when we used to dredge , we got down to chalk er , more or less the depth we wanted to go and anybody dredging down there today if they dredge the chalk at Cliff Quay that 's the depth of water you want and erm then we dredged erm just below erm and then we went to Freston Freston we were dredging peat . |
| 23 | Like the bags of water you buy goldfish in . |
| 24 | Reaching for a glass of water I found there was none . |
| 25 | Otherwise it was added at the table — or to the glass of water he drank at the lectern . |
| 26 | ‘ This must be about the sixth glass of water you 've asked for . ’ |
| 27 | Unless we dissolve a granule directly in 1.75 litres of water we will never actually reach the next LM level but simply continue towards the potency level determined by the dilution factor . |
| 28 | The National Consumer Council ( NCC ) argues that charging people according to the amount of water they use does not reflect the true cost of providing the service . |
| 29 | He says we have watches that are meant to be divers ' watches but immersed in a small amount of water they fill up . |
| 30 | Many of the water companies are now considering installing meters so that they can charge us for the amount of water we have actually used . |