Example sentences of "a bucket of [noun] over [art] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 It related to an incident last August in Manchester Road Swindon when Mr Neilsen threw a bucket of water over a prostitute , Rachel Symonds .
3 The small party — Peter Young by now had about half the men he had brought from Maaloy — opened fire on the warehouse , the Colonel having already emptied his revolver in firing at a sniper 's window , and they kept the German from the window long enough for George Herbert to splash a bucket of petrol over the wooden walls .
4 Then they held him down , flat on his back , as another Sturmabteilung poured a bucket of salt over the Englishman .
5 Above , a gibbous moon fought a brave but doomed battle to be seen through the scudding cloud , occasionally emerging to spill its light like a bucket of whitewash over the slates .
6 Dawn slopped like a bucket of blood over the greasy waves of Lake Pontchartrain , splashing the seaside slum of Bucktown in red …
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