Example sentences of "water [verb] into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Water swirled into the low wide bowl . |
| 2 | The incident began when high pressure primary cooling water leaked into the secondary steam system which powers the reactor 's generator . |
| 3 | Christopher jerked back and kicked , and the bowl of water spilt into the chair , over his legs and over Alan . |
| 4 | The water drops into the Swanage brook as does another spring at Carrants Court further west . |
| 5 | On concrete roads the abandonment of ministry research on water leaks coincided with substantial problems after water seeped into the joints . |
| 6 | It 's not just water sinking into the deep ocean that carries information about conditions on the surface . |
| 7 | The Nubian sandstones forming the plateau are permeable and water sinking into the sandstone may have been thrown out at the foot of its escarpments . |
| 8 | This will prevent water syphoning into the pump if it should stop working . |
| 9 | The demise of deep coal mining and hte cessation of mine water pumping into the almond catchment in the early 1970s has depleted river flows to the extent that dry weather flows in the river are now quite inadequate to assimilate increased volumes of sewage effluent from developing areas . |
| 10 | The flooding followed a 10–15 o list to port , due to water pouring into the forward ballast tanks . |
| 11 | But I knew that it was no massive dental operation in progress but that the sluice itself was blocked by leaves , that the water going into the pipe which fed the turbine was at a minimum and that if I did n't get up and deal with the problem the turbine would shut down and the melin would be pretty cold in the morning . |
| 12 | To stop muddy water getting into the valves , they had to find an alcove in the roof , and create an artificial air bell by opening a tank and filling the alcove with air . |
| 13 | To prevent water getting into the sand and spoiling the bed , you could leave open joints , and point them as you do crazy paving . |
| 14 | This is to ensure that the gully does not get blocked by leaves and other debris and also so that the action of the water gushing into the gully is to clean it . |
| 15 | She decided to use it , adding a generous amount of her favourite scented oil to the water gushing into the bath before lying back and letting the warm water soothe her weariness and tensions away . |
| 16 | She said there 's these hills where it 's hot and rains all the time , and in the rain forests there are these very tall trees and right in the top branches of the trees there are these like great big flowers called … bromeliads , I think , and water gets into the flowers and makes little pools and there 's a type of frog that lays eggs in the pools and tadpoles hatch and grow into new frogs and these little frogs live their whole lives in the flowers right at the top of the trees and do n't even know about the ground and once you know the world is full of things like that your life is never the same . ’ |
| 17 | And there 's these hills where it 's hot and rains all the time , and in the rain forests there are these very tall trees and right in the top branches of the trees there are these like great big flowers called bromeliads and water gets into the flowers and makes little pools and there 's a type of frog that lays eggs in the pools and tadpoles hatch and grow into new frogs and these little frogs live their whole lives in the flowers right at the top of the trees and do n't even know about the ground and the world is full of things like that and now I know about them and I 'm never ever going to be able to see them and then you , ’ she gulped for breath , ‘ want me to come and live with you in a hole and wash your socks ! ’ |
| 18 | There is quite a lot of erosion , water gets into the cracks and it will get worse if work is n't done |
| 19 | Torrents of water pour into the Ouse River System , sluice gates open and excess water floods the meadows . |
| 20 | But there in front of him , a great mountain of white water flew into the sky … ten … twenty metres above the ship . |
| 21 | The animal plunged to a halt , snorting and tossing its head nervously as water sprayed into the air around them . |
| 22 | When the first bowl has filled , the water falls into the second and so on until it reaches the pool below . |
| 23 | During last Thursday evening 's downpour , water surged into the ground floor and patients had to be evacuated . |
| 24 | The river that makes the falls runs down towards us , hitting the cleft at right-angles. first there is a series of rapids where beautiful mists of water hang above white horses that gallop over rocks , then the water disappears into the cleft . |
| 25 | They also took command of the crucial Madden Dam , which regulates the amount of water flowing into the canal , and maintained helicopter and motorised patrols along the 51-mile length of the canal . |
| 26 | The name Fleet was an Anglo-Saxon word meaning ‘ tidal inlet ’ and the principle sources of the water flowing into the River Fleet , were the heights of Hampstead Heath , also the grounds of Kenwood House at Highgate , all joining just north of Camden Town , and flowing south to join the River Thames , close to the Blackfriars monastery which gave its name to the bridge over the Thames at that point . |
| 27 | Coming back from this explosion he checked the damage — in the tradition of his Corps — and heard the gurgle of water flowing into the dry-dock . |
| 28 | The problems were exacerbated by the slow circulation of water in the shallow and semi-enclosed Gulf , the evaporation of water in the summer ( which concentrates pollutants ) and the decline in the supply of fresh water flowing into the waterway ( because of use of the waters of the Euphrates and Tigris for irrigation and electricity generation ) . |
| 29 | WWF also hopes to control the amount of waste water flowing into the Danube ; pollution has wiped out 70 of the river 's 110 species of fish in the past 10 years and is threatening the ecosystem of the Black Sea . |
| 30 | Hillhouse International has launched a £135,000 project to protect water flowing into the River Wyre at Thornton . |