Example sentences of "have filled the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Saatchi has filled the twin role of chairman and chief executive for several years , but Mr Louis-Dreyfus 's appointment is designed to bring in financial skills at a senior level at a time when the company 's business has been under pressure . |
| 2 | And Right-to-Life ideology has filled the vacuum . |
| 3 | Univel Inc has filled the slot left vacant by its Novell legacy vice president product group , Grover Righter , when he skipped out to join SCO : It 's hired Chris Torkildson , Pyramid 's old VP of software development as its vice president development , based in San Jose , California . |
| 4 | The new industry of salmon-farming has filled the gap as far as the scavenging gulls are concerned : the rearing cages are placed in the sheltered bays and ‘ sounds ’ between the islands and are fed on high-protein , manufactured food in pellet form , which are ferried out in sacks by small boats . |
| 5 | Fortunately , my sister-in-law Kate has filled the gap in my life by producing a baby brother for my nephew William . |
| 6 | Lenny has filled the house again . |
| 7 | Blundell has filled the vacancy which had been earmarked for first-choice newcomer Damon Hill . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | One typically frenetic four-day jaunt took him to Pontresino in the Alps to find Eritrichium nanum , ‘ King of the Alps ’ ( on the way home Evan 's chauffeur , the Snowdonia Park Head Warden John Ellis Reports , had to navigate by road-signs and instinct , Evan having filled the road atlas with pressed flower-heads of more common species ) . |
| 10 | It is the most important single achievement of the BDDA , and would have filled the founder members , given foresight , with pride and satisfaction . |
| 11 | Certainly world stars of this calibre would have filled the stadium a year ago . |
| 12 | ( Wilfredo Lam , who would have filled the bill , is not included . ) |
| 13 | It would have filled the count 's dark face with fury and suspicion . |
| 14 | Tell the young mother whose child has just received fifteen thousand pounds after the diagnosis of leukaemia , that you should n't have filled the policy because the contexts where not standardised . |
| 15 | Gas was reported to have filled the city streets for about five hours after the blast . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Alison was up the steps and away , lost in the press of people that had filled the bar since they 'd come in . |
| 22 | Holly had filled the plastic bag with oil and twisted the neck tight and fastened it with a snip of wire . |
| 23 | For the noise of that scene had filled the house . |
| 24 | Keeping furniture to a minimum , she had filled the place with books and plants . |
| 25 | He had filled the post in an acting capacity since the resignation of Vitaly Masol in October . |
| 26 | He had drowned , unable to move , when the rising tide had filled the channel : Marie remembered seeing about it on the local television news . |
| 27 | These were so extreme that I was sure some office junior had filled the form in wrongly ! |
| 28 | ‘ It 's dangerous until you 've filled the can up , is it , and then not dangerous at all ? ’ |
| 29 | He says , he 's filled the wheelie bin and it 's go he 's been in it and jumped on the top , so course his track suit is |
| 30 | No , cos the water 's not coming up above your face , the water 's filled the whole going down and it 's got gates . |