Example sentences of "fill [pers pn] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One particular Easter , a beautiful day , I remember an overwhelming fear filling me with absolute terror as we stood outside the ticket office after returning from a journey . |
| 2 | filling me with warm salt |
| 3 | He wanted to finish reading the works of Walter Machin that were available , perhaps have a good look at Gerald Seymour-Strachey 's autobiography and other writings , talk to people who knew Machin — grilling senior citizens in pubs , as he put it to himself : filling them with weak beer to stimulate their weaker memories . |
| 4 | The idea of sub-contracting an exhibition piece now fills me with abject horror . |
| 5 | His touch lanced through her like a lightning bolt , clenching every muscle and tightening every nerve before filling her with liquid heat . |
| 6 | A sick feeling was beginning in the base of her stomach , growing , filling her with blind misery . |
| 7 | The sight filled her with childlike excitement . |
| 8 | None of these , of course , filled her with renewed enthusiasm for staying . |
| 9 | She 'd had a wondrous time with another man , a time that filled her with remembered textures and sensations , that would have left her smiling now if Parr had not become so damned intrusive . |
| 10 | That time , Topaz heard something in the marquis 's voice which filled her with tremulous hope . |
| 11 | This decision filled her with profound gloom ; not only because her home had been so special and so very much loved , but also because the selling of Rose Cottage could do nothing but plunge her into financial disaster . |
| 12 | Her husband had found this fishy , and perhaps for that reason it filled her with intense curiosity . |
| 13 | There were even rumours that it was going to go straight through the middle of Henry s house , a thought that , somewhat to his surprise , filled him with savage pleasure . |
| 14 | Julia 's questions about the line the defence lawyers were taking were as acute as anything she had ever asked David , and they filled him with relieved delight . |
| 15 | The idea that a free India would remain loyal to the British empire filled him with brilliant scorn . |
| 16 | He had found his kingdom , and though it filled him with Adamistic yearning , he was somehow powerless to enter and possess it , Why was this ? |
| 17 | The pile of clean , new paper filled him with excited pleasure . |
| 18 | It fills him with strange satisfaction to think that while the great illumination of the Market Square is quite invisible from this point , the little lamps of Iron Green can be seen glowing through a gap beyond Albert Road , It is many years now since he has visited the lower end of Odborough , for his legs will not carry him up and down the hill , and he growls like a dog if anyone suggests a car . |
| 19 | A freezer will also help you to save money , providing you do not keep filling it with expensive exotic ice creams or whole sides of beef . |
| 20 | Norte weaves her observations into a witty text , filling it with multicultural detail . |
| 21 | When inserting posts or stakes into the ground for use as fence supports , good rigidity can be ensured by inserting the post through the centre of a four-litre plastic ice cream carton , then filling it with concrete mix . |
| 22 | If Alice or Bert filled it with hot water and it leaked causing injury , would either of them have an action ? |
| 23 | Then she picked up the tall glass she had carried down with her , and which was now empty , walked sedately to the water 's edge , filled it with ice-cold water and returned to see that he had not shifted . |
| 24 | So I used a large plastic storage box , and filled it with rooted but loose watercress and placed it in the main pool fed by the return flow from a gravity-fed filter . |
| 25 | He placed a little white enamel cup before each of them and filled it with strong black tea . |
| 26 | She rented the Duchess of Norfolk 's mansion in St James 's Square and filled it with red and white roses for a party . |
| 27 | She filled it with sweet oils and bubbles , shrugged her clothes off , and got in . |
| 28 | He was thrown out of Chicago and fled to New York where he built a palace and filled it with Old Masters . |
| 29 | Then she went to the sink and filled it with lukewarm water and made the water frothy with soap-powder . |
| 30 | ‘ After a while the sun beat down upon the mist and filled it with light and warmth , and a wind blew and the mist thinned and cleared . |