Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw yesterday' in Markstadt a shelter which has beds for 100 of these children ; 42 children had died in the last 24 hours , but these places had been filled up . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's just been filled up with petrol so you 've no worry there . ’ |
| 3 | They must have been filled in at the bank either by Mr Hatton himself or else by the cashier who was attending to him . ’ |
| 4 | After a site has been filled in again only artefacts , notebooks and the photographic record remain to aid the archaeologist in the long post-excavation period when he or she has to decide what it all meant , and publish details of what was found . |
| 5 | The mill pond still existed during the 1950s , but has now been filled in . |
| 6 | Pits have been filled in and tips levelled to form the ubiquitous British , urban , flat landscape of close-mown turf and lollipop trees . |
| 7 | It was coloured a garish blue , an obvious re-spraying job after massive areas of the body-work had been filled in after various collisions . |
| 8 | A clear run of four hundred yards was obtained after a few holes had been filled in . |
| 9 | It turned out that the forms had all been filled in correctly but the DSS had n't read them properly . |
| 10 | On sites where there are no walls or other solid remains , those differences alone show the presence of archaeological features , such as pits and ditches that have silted up or have been filled in . |
| 11 | Today , no coal is exported from North Shields — the old Northumberland Dock has been filled in and is the site of a gas treatment station , an oil depot and Velva Liquids , which handles chemicals , etc . |
| 12 | You can see that some more lines have been filled in automatically for you . |
| 13 | In Great Britain there is no such force , and the gap has been filled in recent years by a militarization of the police force . |
| 14 | However , it seems unlikely that the mare basins could each have been filled in one outpouring . |
| 15 | The pool in their own garden had been filled in by her father five years before when her baby brother had drowned there ; but she loved to sit by cool water , inured to the stinging flies which gave people from the north so much trouble . |
| 16 | In the cases that I have mentioned everything is in order — all the forms have been filled in and returned by the contractor , the work has been completed satisfactorily — but it is a long time before the cheque is processed and the contractor paid . |
| 17 | He looked like a man who had just found that his tax returns had been filled in by Ken Dodd 's accountant , or that Kitty Kelley was going to write his biography . |
| 18 | Important details have been filled in by experiments in channel flow ; transition is promoted by a vibrating ribbon close to one wall whilst flow in the other half of the channel remains undisturbed , so there is close resemblance to a boundary layer . |
| 19 | Er has the card been filled in with a date on it ? |
| 20 | you could see it like , er but it could easily have been filled in with some wood and nobody would know it was there , yeah |
| 21 | Well tha well oh well that 's alright , it was only that it 'd be I thought you said there was a place for your name and address that had n't been filled in by the computer so you filled it in ? |
| 22 | which has now been filled in |
| 23 | Because I recko , I reckon they must of been paid for that because Maury has n't been phoning up and saying oh you have n't paid it ! |
| 24 | ‘ It 's taken this long to get over it and , as many good athletes have discovered to their cost , the temptation has always been to carry on training . |
| 25 | And I 'll tell you something more : it would have been hidden up , as many another 's been , an' she would have been dumped somewhere , or found in the canal , but one of the lasses that found her had a screaming fit and ran out into the street , went barmy , they said , yelling , ‘ She 's hung herself ! |
| 26 | Scientists are stepping up tests to find the source of dioxin contamination which has brought financial ruin to two farmers . |
| 27 | The revival in borrowing was concentrated on credit cards , suggesting that consumers are stepping up purchases of everyday items but are still reluctant to take on debt to finance household durables and cars . |
| 28 | COMPANIES that supply optical fibres to British Telecom are stepping up their efforts to cut the price of the fibres in the face of international competition . |
| 29 | In the UK , GaAs-based computer chips are now being marketed , and UK manufacturers are stepping up production of GaAs materials . |
| 30 | AIRLINES are stepping up safety checks on Boeing 747s following last month 's Amsterdam air crash . |