Example sentences of "[prep] fill [adv prt] the " in BNC.

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1 And a collection of routine thoughts and physical distractions are useful for filling up the spaces created by the avoidance .
2 This part is taken from the first 4 bars of the Pride And Joy solo and illustrates a great device for filling out the sound of your lines .
3 The same sets of patterns are used for backgrounds and for filling in the fonts themselves .
4 Yeah great and you can have a little spiel in there about sort of confidentiality and your views are important whatever they are and , and a little bit of blurb about filling in the scale and , you know , the usual sort of standard stuff
5 He believed that if nothing were done about filling in the quarry , another tragedy would happen there .
6 . We 'll be giving you some exercises later about filling in the back .
7 The task of filling up the blanks I 'd rather leave to you .
8 Instead of filling up the brandy bottle with water , I had put Mrs Joe 's strongest and most unpleasant medicine in by mistake .
9 The park , unlikely though it might seem , was not a job , not a political ideology , not a way of filling in the weary hours until she was old enough to retire , not even something to spite her mother with once and for all while she accepted everything else from her .
10 The use of the layby , however , gave concern and councillors suggested looking at the possibility of filling in the laybys along Trinity Hill to prevent further incidents .
11 The awkwardness will probably prompt you to talk just for the sake of filling in the space , and you may say more than you wanted to or even find yourself talking rubbish .
12 However things turn out , try to reflect the mood of the scene by the pace of the cutting of your shots : if the children are quiet and thoughtful , the shots can be held a little longer than if they are lively and excited ( provided that the adult does a good job of filling in the gaps in the action ) .
13 It is also ‘ the best way of filling in the crossword ’ , he added .
14 Fortunately , I noticed that he had been given a place at a different school from his older brother and that it was actually a matter of filling in the appeal form requesting a place at another school .
15 In the course of filling in the form , he included a significant falsehood .
16 Place two teaspoons of filling in the centre of each round , making sure it fills the hollow .
17 Then , using a teaspoon , put a small amount of filling in the centre of each wonton skin .
18 By 1870 the major European trunk lines had been established and it was a matter of filling in the network , a process that continued until the end of the century .
19 Now place a generous tablespoon of filling in the centre of each pastry disc and spread slightly .
20 Otherwise , the method of filling in the coupon is the same .
21 and you sort of fill up the battery , and then you can draw it off , but the battery itself is n't making electricity it 's just storing cells , like the little cells in that , the cells you get in your normal little batteries , and when they 've finished making it you chuck 'em away .
22 It was like filling in the blank spaces on a form and equally unprofitable .
23 Check spelling and grammar on the copy before filling in the real form .
24 Please read the notes before filling in the application form on pages 3 and 4 .
25 If you think you could qualify for this allowance or need more information of help in filling in the forms , contact the bureau .
26 Otherwise they are better employed in filling in the middle of the harmony , or in emphasizing salient points by means of their powerful sforzato .
27 I agree with the hon. Gentleman that every conceivable thing that can be done should be done to ensure that the applicant — the hon. Gentleman was right to say that he may be old and slightly confused — is assisted in filling out the forms .
28 The next necessary act in this play is for the two to reassure each other of their discretion ; from the monk : And from the wife : Agreement on the sexual exchange is thus sealed : They can then indulge themselves in filling out the details of their play — and anticipating the events of the act to come — at a certain amount of leisure .
29 Human brains can be relied upon to fill in the gaps when they reconstruct the image on the television screen in their visual cortexes .
30 Does the whole conceptual perspective of the Monitor theory narrow down to a focus on filling in the blanks ?
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