"tap" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Persham had the tap running, and waited near the basin with a clean towel ready.
- He heard the sound of the tap running, and then the sound of bristles against gum, ivory and lip.
- He moved into the little kitchen which led from the sitting-room and soon Nelly could hear the tap running.
- The environmental thinker Tim Helweg-Larsen explains the urgency by likening climate change to a bath with the tap running.
- With the tap running, he nearly didn't hear the landline phone ringing.
- Kelly heard a tap running.
- She heard a tap running, no bottles being taken from a secret stash.
- A tap running, and the echo of metal as the kettle was filled.
- Not a tap running, a radio mumbling, not one of the household machines in operation.
- "Unless someone left a tap running," said the Senior Tutor.
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