Example sentences of "water [prep] a few [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Chop and add to casseroles or steep in boiling water for a few minutes before adding to salads . |
2 | At five o'clock in the morning Ada Neumann would have been in her kitchen , simmering the dozens of doughnut-shaped rolls in hot water for a few minutes before baking them in the oven , glazing them with egg-white and then showering them with sesame seeds . |
3 | We suggest you paint it with yoghurt , seaweed liquid fertiliser or a solution made by soaking a hessian bag of manure in water for a few hours . |
4 | It is best used after being steeped in water for a few hours . |
5 | She paddled in the shallow water for a few moments before joining Stephen where he was setting up the barbecue in a shaded spot . |
6 | When I go , I hold my breath and completely immerse myself under the water , trying to keep as relaxed as possible , and I stay under the water for a few seconds . |
7 | 11 Dip the tin into hot water for a few seconds and turn on to a serving plate . |
8 | As they leave the fair ( moving towards the camera , which pulls back with them ) , their joyful cries become unheard and they move in slow motion like creatures under water for a few seconds . |
9 | To do this , dip the moulds in warm water for a few seconds , ease the mousse away from the sides of the moulds and carefully tip out , then garnish as before . |
10 | Inserting the cut end of a stem into boiling water for a few seconds ( protecting the flower ) often prevents wilting eg with roses . |
11 | According to many local people , the police hold refugees without food or water for a few days , then turn them loose in the desert near the Somali or Ethiopian borders - too far for them to walk back . |
12 | Test rocks for suitability by soaking in tap water for a few days , checking hardness and pH before and after . |
13 | The road goes through a small hamlet where there is a pond , a few square metres of tired water with a few pieces of rusty iron breaking its surface . |
14 | He also told them that a thin palladium wire , only ¼ inch in diameter and an inch long , had reached the boiling point of water within a few minutes , that the wire produced about 26 watts of energy per cm 3 , ‘ about four and a half times what we put into it ’ and that in an early stage of the experiments the apparatus suddenly heated up to an estimated 5000 degrees , vaporising a block of palladium , destroying a fume cupboard and damaging the concrete floor . |