Example sentences of "[vb past] filled the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was painful enough knowing they had both let their love for each other slip so easily away , but the speed with which he 'd filled the void she 'd left really cut into her . |
| 2 | Only a few short hours before , the world 's second highest rise of tide had arrived with that familiar roar , and in a little over three hours had filled the mile wide estuary with twenty five feet of salt water . |
| 3 | But Jay 's spine became electric as Pergolese 's Stabat Mater came through the speakers sure as it had filled the dusk of her dream . |
| 4 | Rain and rivers eroded the soft sandstones that had filled the lagoon basin , scouring them away so that today the reefs are exposed once more , high and dry , facing not the sea but desert covered with clumps of spinifex grass and stunted mulga trees . |
| 5 | It did look terribly empty , such a change from a few hours ago when music had filled the air and swaying bodies had danced and laughed and fooled about . |
| 6 | Once they had filled the trolley and checked off everything on their list Stuart and his Mum looked for a checkout that was n't busy . |
| 7 | Alison was up the steps and away , lost in the press of people that had filled the bar since they 'd come in . |
| 8 | Holly had filled the plastic bag with oil and twisted the neck tight and fastened it with a snip of wire . |
| 9 | For the noise of that scene had filled the house . |
| 10 | Keeping furniture to a minimum , she had filled the place with books and plants . |
| 11 | He had filled the post in an acting capacity since the resignation of Vitaly Masol in October . |
| 12 | He had drowned , unable to move , when the rising tide had filled the channel : Marie remembered seeing about it on the local television news . |
| 13 | These were so extreme that I was sure some office junior had filled the form in wrongly ! |