Example sentences of "[be] filled with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the best going I could hope to see , but just beyond that wall of water , minutes away , the ground became lacerated with gulleys , as if a maze of streams had scored the ground and had been filled with sand . |
| 2 | Like most people who knew Joyce well , she had been filled with trepidation at the prospect of seeing someone trying on Joyce 's inimitable footwear . |
| 3 | The gaps between the walls of the coral skeleton have been filled with calcite , showing up as the lighter colours of the sections . |
| 4 | Once he and his henchman had been obliged to leave the wrecked apartment on the avenue Foch , he had been filled with apprehension at having to report his failure direct to Teheran . |
| 5 | The empty chambers are usually supposed to have been filled with gas , which help to give the animal buoyancy , and via the siphuncle the animal can vary its buoyancy to control its position in the water column . |
| 6 | We 'd been filled with school milk and cod-liver oil and orange juice , but only the few scheme-housing children had bathrooms . |
| 7 | The wadi would rarely have been filled with water , but deep down , the soil was moist , and trees were able to drink from its reserve . |
| 8 | His eyes , which , moments earlier , had been filled with fear and horror , were now clear , almost calm . |
| 9 | The people behind the BBC soap opera Eldorado had been filled with fear and trepidation . |
| 10 | Page upon page has been filled with Cabinet splits , the Europe crisis , the economic crisis , the industrial and jobs crisis , the Mellor crisis … and a crisis of leadership . |
| 11 | The gap left by the withdrawal of the worst examples has been filled with Class 312s , and ex-London Midland 310s . |
| 12 | The mandatory field listed has not been filled with information . |
| 13 | The 40ft long deep crack in the wall of Pershore Abbey 's south transept can still be clearly seen , although it 's now been filled with cement . |
| 14 | True , at the start he had been filled with remorse . |
| 15 | She had once embraced the world with her enthusiasm , laughed at life , had been filled with compassion for those less fortunate , and what was she now ? |
| 16 | At one time , the space between the timbers would have been filled with mud and straw . |
| 17 | Many were guessing that it had been filled with pepper or castor-oil or some other foul-tasting substance that would make the boy violently sick . |
| 18 | The skins ( usually made from wheat ) are filled with meat or fish or vegetables in a seasoned sauce . |
| 19 | The papers are filled with gloom and doom . |
| 20 | The joints between the stones are filled with mortar after bedding sets . |
| 21 | Below the transparent epicuticle of the elytra is a very thin spongy layer ; when its interstices are filled with air this appears yellow , but when they fill with water the black colour of the underlying cuticle becomes apparent . |
| 22 | Many women are filled with trepidation at the thought of their husbands ' retirement because they just want to do nothing . |
| 23 | The prefabricated arches come in sections , and are screwed and glued to wooden battens , fixed to the sides and top of the opening , and joints and screw-holes are filled with plaster later . |
| 24 | This is hardly history but it is the past , and for those of us who are filled with wonder at those days , that past can give a powerful charge to one 's writing . |
| 25 | Very slender ideas with which to cover such large areas , very slender indeed , but nobody has ever complained of monotony ; rather we are filled with wonder by an experience so moving and poetic . |
| 26 | Most pores are filled with water . |
| 27 | This is the level of the watertable and all the joints in the rocks below are filled with water — they are saturated . |
| 28 | Those who have worked with the animals are filled with nostalgia for the gentle giants . |
| 29 | Both results suggest that the nanotubes are filled with yttrium carbide crystals , and contain no yttrium metal or yttrium oxide . |
| 30 | The lower six compartments are filled with mercury . |