Example sentences of "of water over the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A device which aims to make the flow of water over the daggerboard slot as smoothly as possible .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 He played a gentle stream of water over the specimen in his hand .
5 This improved the flow of water over the tentacles .
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