Example sentences of "i fill [adv prt] the " in BNC.

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1 Then I filled up the brandy bottle with what I thought was water from a big brown bottle .
2 And I filled up the boat with forty loads of blanketweed .
3 Diffidently , I filled in the form : 40,000 mile service , please .
4 I filled in the form with this request instead of a claim for money , although I did n't have much hope that anything would happen .
5 I filled in the rest of that day by pretending to be busy with the audit .
6 It 's great , cos the water 's warm , and I fill up the sink and keep my hands in it for a long time .
7 Declaring that he wishes to offer to the public ‘ the very Journal which Dr Johnson read ’ , he says he will not ‘ expand the text in any considerable degree , though I may occasionally supply a word to complete the sense as I fill up the blanks of abbreviation in the writing ’ .
8 So that is how he did it : as I fill up the blanks of abbreviation in the writing — with ‘ wd ’ , and ‘ wl ’ , and ‘ sd ’ , and ‘ J ’ , and ‘ Ld M ’ , and ‘ ystdy ’ , and ‘ Abrdn ’ , and ‘ Mntrse ’ , and ‘ Ednbro ’ , or some such ?
9 ‘ Let me fill in the details .
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