Example sentences of "with water from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We finished our soup and swilled out the mess tins with water from the jerry-can . |
| 2 | Then fill it up with water from the kettle , Not boiling , mind , that could prove disastrous . |
| 3 | When the recovery crew arrived two hours later they found the capsule was filling with water from the seven foot swell . |
| 4 | She filled a jug with water from the pail , found rag , a tankard and another crust of bread to add to the food in her pocket . |
| 5 | First half fill a small container with water from the breeding tank . |
| 6 | Willie walked over to the kettle and filled it with water from the pitcher . |
| 7 | They have also built ‘ levadas ’ — irrigation channels which supply their crops with water from the wetter northern region — and these are what attract tourists year after year . |
| 8 | When the toilet is flushed , air is sucked out of the waste pipe , creating a vacuum , which is then filled with water from the cistern . |
| 9 | She brought a bowl from the cupboard and filled it with water from the kettle , there were chores to be done before she could even begin to make a meal for the three of them . |
| 10 | Before it grew any darker , we followed a little path to the well , a deep gap between boulders , and filled our kettle with water from the spring . |
| 11 | Sometimes one found them frothing with water from the spring . |
| 12 | He commented that it was a result ‘ very similar to the reaction which I have found with water from the Chalice Well at Glastonbury ’ |
| 13 | What with water from the tank ? |
| 14 | Even more annoyed by that intrusive thought , Guy scowled furiously as Isabel rose and took a beaker from the table , filling it with water from the pail . |
| 15 | In a direct boiler system , the copper hot water cylinder ( or , in older installations , galvanised hot water tank ) is supplied with water from the cold water storage cistern ; the water then passes down to a heating boiler , back boiler ( behind a fire ) or gas circulator to be heated before returning to the hot water cylinder . |
| 16 | The Zimbabwe government has revived a plan to build a 250-kilometre pipeline to supply the city of Bulawayo and its environs with water from the Zambezi river . |
| 17 | What , well , we had a very large sitting dining room where we put er our dining room furniture at one end and as , the sitting room furniture at the other , it was very large actually , a Nissan hut does n't look very big , but it is quite big and we had one large bedroom where we got all our furniture in there and then there was er a kitchen , and there was an Elsan lavatory in the garden which er you had to go outside for that , and er , we bought a full length galvanized bath like an ordinary bath upstairs and there was a boiler in the kitchen so we used to light the fire of the boiler , fill the boiler with water from the tap , we had a , oh we had all sorts of er innovations that made life easy as could be in the circumstances , we had er hose pipe from the kitchen sink into the bathroom , we managed to get about three baths a week , cos it , it was a terrible fag , but we did , and then you just emptied the bath out and out in the drain outside you know . |