Example sentences of "filled [adv prt] the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 If the uplands and woodlands were apparently settled by the twelfth century , other colonisation probably merely filled in the gaps .
2 Filling in perfectly for the missing men , women filled in the gaps in such important industries as agriculture , to provide food , weapons and munitions manufacturing , and railways and transport .
3 Under hypnosis they were not afraid to ‘ ad lib ’ ; they happily regarded fragmentary or inaccurate memories as acceptable , and then imaginatively filled in the bits , sometimes even whole verses , which they could not remember .
4 filled in the ones you know .
5 It contains a lot of questionnaires for which there are no answers and with not much guidance on what to do with the answers once you have filled in the pages .
6 Paint , varnish , more varnish and a blow-drier hastened the effect and old brown shoe polish filled in the cracks .
7 And where Antoinette laid down guidelines — just as she had done when she advised her own daughter on Scottish affairs when Mary of Guise first went to Scotland — her son , the cardinal , filled in the details .
8 The ‘ binary policy ’ had taken shape , and in 1966 the White Paper A Plan for Polytechnics and Other Colleges filled in the details .
9 3DO Co Inc , San Mateo , California has filled in the details on its planned initial public offering and has filed to offer 2.2m shares , all new , at a target price of $11 a share to raise working capital to fund anticipated operating losses .
10 Quality Software Products Holdings Plc , Gateshead has now filled in the numbers hidden by the blobs in its pathfinder prospectus ( CI No 2,132 ) , pricing the 2.85m shares it is placing , 1.46m of them new , at 380 pence a share , valuing Quality , which did £1.2m net on £13.1m sales in 1992 , at £29.6m and raising about £5m of new money , net of expenses , for the company .
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