Example sentences of "water from a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the screen , a window cleaner is requesting water from a housewife , who , one assumes , has other plans in mind , and we all fold our arms . |
| 2 | Golden and silver Orfes enjoy leaping for flies in the cool of the evening or else swimming vigorously against the flow of water from a waterfall . |
| 3 | He tugged out a small white bowl , and added water from a canister . |
| 4 | Fine rain was being whisked ova the town in little flurries like water from a sprinkler hose caught by the wind . |
| 5 | In addition commercial water , that is water from a tap , is not a pure substance . |
| 6 | With a constant head of pressure , the flow of water from a tap near the base of the reservoir could also be kept constant . |
| 7 | If there had been no rain and the soil become dry , we used to prepare these slit trenches the day before and fill them with water from a can , but carefully , so as not to wash the soil back into them . |
| 8 | But in less than a year Poland and Hungary had proved otherwise ‘ and now you have the strongest of the strong , the East Germans , jumping out like water from a bucket with a hole in it . |
| 9 | The simplest way to test the system is to pour water into the gutter from a watering can or run water from a hosepipe connected to the kitchen tap or a garden tap . |
| 10 | Another method is to give the baby a small amount of boiled water from a bottle before the morning feed , so that it feels full more quickly , or to feed from one breast only — this will tend to reduce your supply of milk overall , so you should only do this if you know your milk is plentiful . |
| 11 | She now has clean water from a pump that Mohali her health advisor , helped the village to organise and build . |
| 12 | Burun gave him water from a bowl . |
| 13 | On 22 August , 2,000 fish were killed when chlorinated water from a council swimming pool leaked into the river . |
| 14 | A particular concern is back-siphonage — the contamination of the mains supply with dirty water or water from a storage cistern being drawn back into it — and many of the bye-laws are designed to prevent this . |
| 15 | A domestic cat becomes a deadly predator , the drain pipe demands a feat of mountain climbing to scale it , and waste water from a kitchen sink thunders down on Susan and the Doctor with the force of a tidal wave . |
| 16 | A girl from a neighbouring school came to the victim 's aid by throwing a bucket of water from a flower stall over his assailants . |
| 17 | My patience is draining like water from a colander , but the guy called Malcolm appears at her side so fast you 'd think he was joined on a spring . |
| 18 | A wick supplies the chamber with distilled water from a reservoir . |
| 19 | Before putting the waterlily in the pool , soak the basket thoroughly with water from a watering can fitted with a fine rose . |
| 20 | They decided to invoke the Water Resources Act of 1963 , which stated that in order to abstract water from a river to create power an annual licence would have to be purchased . |
| 21 | Loudspeakers will be lowered into the water from a pilot boat , and the whales will be played recordings made off the Azores last year by a Bangor University marine biologist , John Goold . |
| 22 | Solar-powered pumps draw water from a lake to flush the lavatories at the Cragside estate in Northumberland . |
| 23 | There would be a fire in the grass on the dunes , or a plane would have crashed , and all that stopped the cordite in the cellar from going up would be me diverting some of the water from a dam system down a channel and into the house . |
| 24 | Douse with water if possible , but do n't throw on water from a distance , as this creates scalding steam and only spreads the flames . |
| 25 | When a bather wanted more hot water , he or she had to shout over the noise of filling baths and protesting bathers and the Duchesse singing , and depending on how this eccen-tric woman felt , she would either top up the water from a source outside the cubicles or tell the bather his time was up . |
| 26 | Work has already started on saving the fen , which is drying out because of the extraction of drinking water from a borehole by the Suffolk Water Company . |
| 27 | Clara , who lives in a swamp home outside Miami , was drawing water from a canal when the 7ft gator pounced . |
| 28 | But at that time it was n't what you 'd call modern in so far as you had n't got hot water from a sort of gas fir Electric heating . |
| 29 | 'E just stood there , all miserable , drinking tap water from a plastic cup . |
| 30 | 'E just stood there , all miserable , drinking tap water from a plastic cup . |