Pēhia ai te tahā ki raro i te wai kia kore ai e uru he hamuti ki roto (TTT 1/12/1929). / The calabash was pushed down into the water so that excrement would not enter.

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Ū rawa atu ki uta whekuwheku ana ngā tāngata me ngā kākahu (TWM 3/10/1863:3). / When they reached the shore the people and the clothes were drenched.

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Kātahi ka tutua ki te tahā hei kai, hei hinu (NM 1928:131). / Then they were preserved in fat in calabashes for food, as game.

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Otirā, tērā anō tērā pūtake mate, tōna taunga kei a katoa, kei ngā tāne, kei ngā wāhine, kei ngā tamariki, koia hoki ko te kai i te kānga pirau, i te rīwai pirau, arā, i te kānga kōpūwai, i te rīwai kōtero (MM.TKM 15/9/1859:1). / But there is another cause of sickness which affects all, —men, women, and children and that is eating rotten corn and of rotten potatoes, or corn and potatoes that have been steeped in water.

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Tirohia ake te pō ka tuku iho i runga Te Torohanga, ko te tohu tai mate ē (MM.TKM 1/2/1855:29). / Look up at the darkness that gathers on Te Torohanga, the sign of slack water.
He tai mate tēnei. Ka hoe tātou (W 1971:364). / This is slack water. Let's paddle.

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Heoi, ka noho nei te taniwha, ko tana mahi, he patu i ngā tira haere; arā, he kai i ngā tāngata, horopuku tonu, ahakoa he kawenga tā te tangata, ka horomia pukutia e taua taniwha - ahakoa he tamaiti i runga i te hākui e waha ana, ka heke tahi rāua ki roto i te kōpū o te taniwha nei - ahakoa ngā tokotoko me ngā taiaha, ka pau katoa te horo (JPS 1905:200). / And so the taniwha remained there. His occupation was killing the travelling parties - that is, he used to swallow them whole, even if they had loads on their backs they were swallowed up by that taniwha - mothers carrying children on their backs, they went down together into the belly of this taniwha - even walking sticks and taiaha, they were completely swallowed up.
Ko Ureia e kōrerotia nei, ehara i te taniwha patu tangata, rumaki tangata rānei. Engari e karangatia ana a Ureia he tupua, he mauri nō ngā tāngata o tēnei moana o Tīkapa, arā ko Hauraki. Arā he tohu mana o ngā tāngata o tēnei moana...Otiia, e rua āhua taniwha. Tētehi āhua he kaitangata, arā he rumaki tangata ki te wai kia mate ai. Otiia, e kore aua tū taniwha e rumaki noa i te tangata. Mā te hara anō, arā mā te haere ki runga i ngā wāhi tapu, tanumanga tūpāpaku nei. Wāhi tapu rānei, whare o ngā tohunga o aua tū taniwha; wāhi tapu rānei, nohoanga o ngā taniwha. Mā te pērā anake ka horomia ai e ērā tū taniwha...Ko Ureia he ika tonu, he ika nunui atu i te parāoa (JPS 1946:30). / Ureia being discussed, was not a taniwha that killed or drowned people. But Ureia was called a tupua, a mauri of the people of this sea of Tīkapa, that is of Hauraki. In other words it was a symbol of the mana of the people of this sea...But there are two forms of taniwha. One kind is a man-eater, that is it drowns people in water to kill them, but, those taniwha do not drown people without reason, but do so because of an offence, such as going on to prohibited places such as are the burial places of the dead; or the sacred places such as are the houses of the tohunga of those taniwha; or the sacred places which are the places where the taniwha live. It is only for such things would they be swallowed up by those taniwha...Ureia was actually a marine animal, one larger than a sperm whale.

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He kino ēnā rīwai, he kōpūwai (W 1971:139). / Those potatoes are inferior, they're watery.

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Ka mea te tohunga, "Me kawe e koe ki te wai makariri." Ka waha e te tāne tana wahine ki te roto i reira whakaruku ai pērā me te tohutohu a te tohunga (TJ 16/8/1898:7) / The tohunga said, "You must take her to the cold water." The husband carried his wife to the lake and there immersed her in the way the tohunga had instructed.

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He aha koe i wāhi ai i te takawai o Tūtānekai? (NM 1928:111). / Why did you smash Tūtānekai's calabash?

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E kōmanawa tonu ana te puna, ahakoa te tauraki o te whenua. / The spring still welled up despite the drought.

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Ka nui te whaikōrero, ka tukua te kai, arā, te tuna, te inanga, te kōura, te toitoi (JPS 1901:74). / After a lot of speech-making, food was presented, that is eels, whitebait, crayfish and giant bully.

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Ka kitea atu te mahi a te aua e ngote ana i te wai tai (HP 1991:16). / Lots of yellow-eyed mullet were seen sucking the sea water.

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Ko Ngātoroirangi i haere ki ngā raorao ki te takahi waipuna i reira (JPS 1985:134). / Ngātoroirangi went into the undulating country to stamp for springs there.

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