Example sentences of "[vb past] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | old lady — avid for a cigarette , ‘ She sucked in the smoke … like a baby having its bottle . ’ ; |
| 2 | The clerk stretched and sucked in the clear morning air . |
| 3 | Diffidently , I filled in the form : 40,000 mile service , please . |
| 4 | He opened the note-book and filled in the date . |
| 5 | According to the Guardian : ‘ the rector of St Tudy filled in the questionnaire for them . |
| 6 | Henry filled in the form and drove down to Underwoods . |
| 7 | He broke all records , but it was my mother who filled in the forms . |
| 8 | As she filled in the forms for him , the girl in Despatch , big and black and at last a friendly face , told him she was from Mississippi , and sure as hell she hated Greeks , Athens , moussaka and retsina . |
| 9 | We filled in the acceptance form and phoned the school about a visit . |
| 10 | He wonders if you filled in the forms correctly . ’ |
| 11 | I filled in the form with this request instead of a claim for money , although I did n't have much hope that anything would happen . |
| 12 | And then Jayne filled in the first day . |
| 13 | As a last resort MOD might tell us if we filled in the right forms . |
| 14 | I filled in the rest of that day by pretending to be busy with the audit . |
| 15 | I ca n't say that alcohol did anything to lift my spirits , but at least it filled in the time before my date with Detective Inspector Redpath . |
| 16 | Cos all the other schools they filled in the rest part of the week . |
| 17 | For my second slide I chose a bullet chart and filled in the appropriate data form . |
| 18 | The poser 's cafe had free newspapers and she filled in the crosswords shamelessly , was even miffed if someone else had got there first , especially with a blue Biro : Alex used a black Biro for crosswords . |
| 19 | He also filled in the usual trader 's form offering to sell the car to the finance company and sent both forms off to the finance company . |
| 20 | In the second column , she filled in the address Bridget had just given her — Cherry Cottage , Buckland Dinham , Somerset . |
| 21 | She filled in the columns next to Veronica 's name , and stared thoughtfully at the piece of paper . |
| 22 | I thought it filled in the , the kind of , some of the biographical kind of things we do n't have time to do in the course . |
| 23 | From 1963 they filled in the gully and fenced the land . |
| 24 | Erm you had a statement of Barbara 's , if it was in there , it was planned so that you crew can work harder erm although you filled in the bonus question well , the there was a tend dangerous tendency for you be sucked in to go into the bonus and I think you did well to say yeah well we 'd better walk along to that so you held out which was nice because if I had if you had n't tackled that you might have been shown the door once you 'd gone through that . |
| 25 | Er , if you can remember at school working out equations , as long as you filled in the , the right bits in the right place , you got the right answer . |
| 26 | Jill left for her coffee break , and Juliet filled in the basic charts . |
| 27 | It was there that he filled in the winning coupon , using a lucky pixie : |
| 28 | That was that was the other thing when you filled in the C C Q , that 's when I filled in my own one , you put in the death |
| 29 | But Jamie was replaced that night by a tall , white-faced man who said nothing when he handed in the plate of food . |
| 30 | She went off to attend to her cultures , and Reynolds handed in the form and the catalogue to the copy clerk . |