Example sentences of "[adv prt] of the water " in BNC.
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| 31 | Dio Cassius describes the difficulties with which the Romans subdued the ancient Britons , who hid in the marshes ‘ with their heads only out of the water ! ’ |
| 32 | Instead of trying to walk , doggy paddle , Heathcliffe always tried to climb out of the water ; hence , he generally ended up on his back , legs lashing away hopelessly , until disappearing under the surface . |
| 33 | The pool was packed with salmon and sea-trout , tearing round like mad things , splashing and leaping , throwing themselves out of the water in spectacular displays . |
| 34 | REVERSE : Weather stunning , food great , Chris has found some snorkelling gear and now I ca n't get him out of the water ! |
| 35 | It must have been an hour and a half at least before we managed to get the thing out of the water . |
| 36 | Last winter I fished a kid from Santa Monica out of the water . |
| 37 | Once Chang pulled rank on Callahan at Sunset and ordered him out of the water . |
| 38 | It was only the fact that boards were expensive , Michael thought , that kept some people out of the water . |
| 39 | Dropped by helicopter at Fifth Reef Pipeline , he saw the mother of all waves rear up out of the water . |
| 40 | Nails ' foot hooked for him , picked him out of the water and , with a neat thrust to the chest , stood him upright . |
| 41 | When the sail is out of the water the uphaul has served its purpose , so transfer your hands to the comfort of the solid mast . |
| 42 | Whilst doing this you must keep the end of the boom out of the water since if it ‘ catches ’ , the wind will fill the sail and control will be lost . |
| 43 | The beach start enables you to step on to your board without having to haul the sail out of the water . |
| 44 | The water start uses the force of the wind to pull you out of the water and , when performed properly , is a faster and more efficient means of starting on all types of board . |
| 45 | For first attempts the board is best positioned as above , but with practice the board can be manoeuvred once the rig is out of the water . |
| 46 | Only in very strong winds does it pull you completely out of the water . |
| 47 | ‘ In very strong winds I ca n't prevent the sail from lifting me out of the water . ’ |
| 48 | If ever you see bream at the surface moving in several different directions , or merely lying with their backs or just the tip of their dorsal fins out of the water , or cruising sedately along , then they are not rolling or feeding bream . |
| 49 | When a fish sucks in the bait it lifts the bottom shot off the bottom and so allows the buoyancy of the float to take over , resulting in the antenna rising out of the water like the sword Excalibur . |
| 50 | They 'd fished him out of the water , so presumably he 'd drowned . |
| 51 | They had to be kept out of the water until they had lost their baby down and grown waterproof adult oily feathers . |
| 52 | ‘ Amazin' how much bigger they look out of the water , ’ commented Billy . |
| 53 | Well apart from allowing them to breathe , and apart from the sheer fun of it , it appears that by leaping out of the water they actually conserve energy when swimming at high speeds ( Journal of the Marine Biological Association . |
| 54 | He suggests that the term ‘ porpoising ’ should be used to describe any aquatic animal that leaps out of the water and uses less energy than it would if it were surface swimming at the same speed . |
| 55 | Although flying fish leap out of the water they do not porpoise but glide , using their pectoral fins as aerodynamic surfaces . |
| 56 | Just look at a swan landing on water , a whale leaping out of the water , or a child playing on the beach — such beauty just in the movements . |
| 57 | There was plenty of life in and on the river : a life of crocodiles and fish , of porpoises that somersaulted in and out of the water , of herons and egrets wading in the shallows , and kingfishers perched on the marker posts . |
| 58 | One good piece of news is that the Ku Klux Klan has almost entirely disappeared — those robes are murder to swim in — but you can see the odd pointy hat poking out of the water here and there . |
| 59 | With one concerted effort , they heaved the boar out of the water and up on to the bank . |
| 60 | ‘ Simply blow it out of the water , ’ he said . |