Example sentences of "[vb base] filled the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Past owners have filled the gaps with various kinds of fillers , but the result is unsatisfactory and of course the filler itself falls out rather easily .
2 In good , relevant poetry , writers such as Timothy Dudley-Smith , Fred Kaan , Fred Pratt Green and Brian Wren have filled the gaps left by more established hymnals .
3 Day-trippers and weekend visitors have filled the streets and riverside paths every summer for more than sixty years but only a tiny percentage are aware of the village 's remarkable gastronomic distinction , about which most communities would continually drum up a publicity fanfare .
4 PROMPTED , I would like to think , by my dentist 's goading last week , readers have filled the mailbags with filo recipes .
5 Thorns also elaborated a socio-temporal model of village communities , suggesting that there were three types of villages : those that have established structure ( long-standing and with an accepted pattern of authority ) ; those that are transitional , in which the higher-status group has lost its authority ; and those that have been re-established , in which new leaders , mainly in-migrants , have filled the roles of authority .
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