Example sentences of "[verb] water for " in BNC.
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| 1 | To provide water for farmers and city dwellers , three sections of the marsh were surrounded with dikes and set aside from development , each one a kind of captured remnant of Everglades , but wholly for man 's use . |
| 2 | There was virtually no comfort even in the royal apartments ; none of the bathrooms had running water and everyone was forced to rely on servants whose sole duty it was to provide water for washing . |
| 3 | Other frogs avoid the need to provide water for their tadpoles by producing young that complete the whole of their development within the egg membrane . |
| 4 | B , a millowner , employed independent contractors , who were apparently competent , to construct a reservoir on his land to provide water for his mill . |
| 5 | Rain was falling in London , where Sir David Attenborough was launching Water for Wildlife , a two-year campaign by the society . |
| 6 | Proponents argue that the dams will check floods , facilitate fisheries , provide water for industrial and domestic use and promote tourism . |
| 7 | Staff could probably provide him with something to eat , but he would have to obtain water for himself . |
| 8 | I had to cart water for her . |
| 9 | We were shown the great marble slab covering Arthur 's coffin and the chalice well which provided water for the brothers . |
| 10 | TAP water for hundreds of thousands of people could be polluted if pit closures go ahead , an environmental group claimed yesterday . |
| 11 | He will fetch water for them ( domestiques are often called porteurs d'eau , water carriers ) , give them a wheel when they puncture , pace them back to the field if they fall behind the peloton , lead them out in the sprints and dog their rivals . |
| 12 | In a Welsh mining village the boys were told to go and carry water for the old people … and see about firewood for them for the week . |
| 13 | Under no circumstances , however , particularly when you are feeding a dried diet , should you withhold water for any period of time in order to reduce urinary output . |
| 14 | According to UNICEF , about a million babies a year die because their mothers stop breast feeding too soon and switch to dried milk substitutes — without access to clean water for mixing . |
| 15 | Ten of the Ver 's 15 miles have not seen water for more than five years . |
| 16 | Originally a corn mill , it was moved to its present site to pump water for the House in the Clouds , the curious disguised water tower opposite . |
| 17 | And erm my father and another lad who was working out in the had to go Called Michael , had to go down every evening to pump water for the the animal . |
| 18 | Father Kleinsorge went to fetch water for the wounded in a bottle and a teapot he had borrowed . |
| 19 | There 's nothing important in any of these locations , and if the adventurers fancy a bath they 'll have to fetch water for themselves from the well outside ( location 8 ) and heat it somehow . |
| 20 | Most , like Louis Harper , had to fetch water for everything from baths to washing dishes and get rid of it outside . |
| 21 | Then they had to go and pump water for the stock . |
| 22 | Leaving an OSF/Motif version of its 4GL++ object-based graphical development environment to tread water for a while , Informix Inc , Mountain View , California , is hurrying along Microsoft Corp Windows and NT ports in a bid for a quick return on its investment . |
| 23 | Dalton believed that the simplest compound of two elements must have one atom of each ; which made water for him HO . |
| 24 | They had done so the first time they got water for me and I had assumed they would continue . |
| 25 | Its 80-kilometre , elliptical layout is designed to carry water for six million Londoners to strategically placed pump shafts , from which it can be drawn off into the local network . |
| 26 | It was a reservoir containing water for the palaces of the city , water which was brought from the Belgrade Forest 19 kilometres distant . |
| 27 | Director Chris Pond said : ‘ People will be faced with difficult choices , such as whether to use water for baths , or save it for cooking or to water the flower pots . ’ |
| 28 | I should have water for some hours yet , but I did n't know how long I 'd be ashore , and as the shingle here seemed fairly hard I reckoned I could get the rubber dinghy to the water even at low tide . |
| 29 | Above all I needed water for washing , and drinking , of course . |
| 30 | In clay and heavy soils the risk is increased that the hole will then hold water for considerable periods , with the plant and stake actually standing in water . |