Example sentences of "water over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | During tropical rainy seasons when rivers flood and spread muddy waters over the land , the Amazon River dolphin ranges miles from the river bed seeking fish . |
| 2 | I threw the water over the English boy and his friend , and the fire blazed in my head and heart and between my legs . |
| 3 | Among these we may notice easements , such as rights of way , rights of light , rights to take water or to discharge water over the land of another . |
| 4 | First pouring boiling water over the used coffee grounds , Trent led Mariana through to the living-room , seating her on the sofa . |
| 5 | He sprinkled water over the towel and then went into a paroxysm of agony , nursing the injured arm against his chest and holding out his other hand for money . |
| 6 | A device which aims to make the flow of water over the daggerboard slot as smoothly as possible . |
| 7 | It usually took two men to hold the tyre and if the smith thought the fit was satisfactory — at this time it was half-an-inch larger than the wheel — the boy helping was ordered to throw buckets of cold water over the still very hot steel which would immediately contract and tightly hold the rim . |
| 8 | One of the group appeared with a battered bucket and commenced throwing water over the mud covered beast . |
| 9 | He puts it down at the base of the new li ga — the stripped pine trunk that all the men brought back from the forest and erected early this morning — and pours some water over the lamb 's head and in a stripe down its back to the base of the tail . |
| 10 | He played a gentle stream of water over the specimen in his hand . |
| 11 | Fanning the eggs with her fins helps to circulate aerated water over the eggs and also waft away anything that may have settled on them . |
| 12 | The tank was gently filled , but not to the top — there would be a danger of slopping water over the floor when adding the bogwood and plants . |
| 13 | The male parent , having chased away the female , spent most of his time in the nest , swishing about to ensure a constant flow of oxygenated water over the eggs . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , well , that 's water over the dam . |
| 16 | IF you only need lemon or orange juice in a recipe and not the rind , pour boiling water over the fruit and leave it to stand for 5 minutes to release the maximum amount of juice . |
| 17 | They had to heat the water over the fire in the hearth . ’ |
| 18 | WHAT a wonderful response from the creditor of Land Travel who threw water over the boss , Valere Tjolle . |
| 19 | The unnamed pensioner , limping with a walking stick , was cheered as he hurled a jug of water over the 47-year-old boss . |
| 20 | Never start by pouring water over the dog 's head . |
| 21 | Two tubes suck and blow water over the gills , which extract oxygen , and pass food to the mouth . |
| 22 | Since ocean-floor basalt subsides as it cools while migrating away from the spreading axis , a faster-spreading ridge will be hotter and more buoyant over a larger area and hence will cause more displacement of sea water over the continents . |
| 23 | That is , the earliest craniate had a single median inhalant duct conveying water over the unpaired nasal sac on its way to the pharynx and gills . |
| 24 | I cook rice two or three hours ahead and , to reheat it , pour a kettle of boiling water over the rice in a sieve . |
| 25 | This improved the flow of water over the tentacles . |
| 26 | Pour boiling water over the fish , cover it , leave so minutes . |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | She poured the water over the tea bags and felt the tears again . |
| 29 | But if you think this is bloody " — and he laughed his hacking tubercular laugh " our ancestors would n't think of going to sea in a new prahu which had n't first been rolled into the water over the living bodies of seven women in their first pregnancy ! |
| 30 | The wind came so swiftly that within half an hour we were reducing sail , taking water over the deck , and beginning to lumber into a building seaway . |