Example sentences of "fill it [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clive drew the heroin into the syringe , filling it to capacity . |
| 2 | Through the creation and maintenance of that image , she gave access to a particular source of energy , to a kind of mythology that fed the life of the court and country , uniting her realm under a common symbol and filling it with colour and vitality . |
| 3 | Even more annoyed by that intrusive thought , Guy scowled furiously as Isabel rose and took a beaker from the table , filling it with water from the pail . |
| 4 | In even smaller gardens the only solution may be a bamboo wigwam smothered with runner beans , into which junior can crawl and consider , if not the lilies , why Mum and Dad are digging a huge hole in the lawn and filling it with sand . |
| 5 | Aunt Tone and the family 's two children , Josh and Becky , and Becky 's infant daughter , Iona , were already in the dining room , filling it with bustle and chat . |
| 6 | It 's no good just digging a big hole and filling it with acid soil ; the surrounding limey water soon seeps in . |
| 7 | Willie walked over to the kettle and filled it with water from the pitcher . |
| 8 | She brought a bowl from the cupboard and filled it with water from the kettle , there were chores to be done before she could even begin to make a meal for the three of them . |
| 9 | Emmie went to the bathroom and emptied the brushes out of the tooth mug and filled it with water . |
| 10 | ‘ I suppose you 're right , ’ she sighed , then took the jar from the shelf and filled it with water before going out to pick snowdrops . |
| 11 | One of the batteries was sent to Chloride Ltd which cleaned it , filled it with electrolyte and recharged it . |
| 12 | She took an old carpet , filled it with soil and put it in the front room , where Annie and her brother spent the day . |
| 13 | The man who had shown me in reached a pewter tankard down from the Welsh dresser and filled it with champagne . |
| 14 | They filled it with period furniture and even had an antique staircase installed . |
| 15 | That left a lot of silence to fill , and Miles filled it with fear and guilt . |
| 16 | He opened the door to a large room completely bare except for a vast trestle-table that filled it from wall to wall . |
| 17 | The tides surging through the coral heads charge the water with oxygen and the tropical sun warms it and fills it with light . |
| 18 | During the winter , the male digs a hole in the sandy earth about four feet deep and fifteen feet across and fills it with vegetation . |
| 19 | DIG a small hole in the ground , fill it with sand and you have fulfilled many designers ' criteria for a child 's garden . |
| 20 | 10 Bury a flowerpot so the top is level with the soil surface and fill it with soil . |
| 21 | O stared , he did n't know for how long , at him and his outstretched hand , wondering whether to gasp it , fill it with change , or knock it away ; and then he looked up , because he heard his train coming and also because he felt the hot wind on his face . |
| 22 | ‘ You fill it with water and two days later it is rock hard with the fermentation , but a special valve regulates the process . |
| 23 | ‘ It will be your job to go to the kitchen and get the jug and fill it with water and put it on the table here with a clean empty glass just before the lesson starts . ’ |
| 24 | Dig a hole wide and deep enough to accommodate the root system without undue bending and fill it with water . |
| 25 | So we have to make the bath tub and then fill it with water . |
| 26 | He urged them on through the mounting waves until they too reached the Rebecca , and he was able to ram one hole , fill it with pitch , then another , and another , round the hull beneath the overhang of the bows , in a rain of missiles , with fire sizzling around him , and his fellow fighters hanging on , hoping for the moment when the timbers would be ablaze . |
| 27 | Leave the second slit open , or fill it with compost or sand , and use it to water the cuttings with a can in dry weather , without splashing and wetting the foliage . |
| 28 | Stand it on two blocks of wood , fill it with compost , then transfer some of your cuttings to their new home . |
| 29 | ‘ I could empty out this whole ward and fill it before evening with four new patients — four I could help , Jack ; four that need help and need it now . ’ |
| 30 | NASA saw the emptiness above the ground and decided to fill it with sky . |