41.   The river rose midway to the second floor of his rented house and swept away the piles of used clothes he sells to scrape by.

42.   The river below was rising quickly as mud and volcanic debris filled the valley.

43.   The river had been rising for the past two days, swollen by recent rains and melting snow.

44.   The river was steadily rising.

45.   The rivers are rising.

46.   This year, heavy rainfall caused rivers to rise early and with an unusually fast flow.

47.   Home Minister Khum Bahadur Khadka told parliament Sunday that rivers were rising to dangerous levels in lowland regions to the west, south and southeast of Kathmandu.

48.   If they did we could have told them that the river would rise.

49.   In the Netherlands, the Maas river rose steadily, flooding village after village in the southeast of the country.

50.   Both reproach Turkey, where the river rises, of taking too much water.