Example sentences of "filled to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here Lucy was lifted up , and allowed to measure her own corn , using a round wooden pottle measure filled to the brim each time and carefully smoothed off . |
| 2 | One day he would be wealthy enough to buy shoes with metal caps and a fur-lined leather jacket , and a big iron skillet filled to the brim with red meat and eggs and mushrooms and sausages and crispy fried bread in sizzling hot fat . |
| 3 | Pink blancmange ( linked to two — a shoe ) : A big black lace-up shoe filled to the brim with floppy pink blancmange ; |
| 4 | She was here in the flesh to oblige Miss Beard , but her mind was filled to the brim with Joss Barnet . |
| 5 | ( SCENE : A huge golden tub , studded with emeralds and filled to the brim with the tears of baby narwhals . |
| 6 | Quite quickly the whole corridor filled to the brim with the substance of the hydra . |
| 7 | Lying in clouds of scent in the sunken tub filled to the brim , that streak of equanimity she had asserted itself . |
| 8 | A lotus-eyed beauty , a grande horizontale with five fat address books filled to the brim with transcontinental names ! |
| 9 | Bartlemas had an enormous private income , and the pair of them lived in a tall Victorian house in Islington , which was filled to the brim with play-bills , prints , prompt copies , figurines and other souvenirs of their two heroes . |
| 10 | A servant brought a tray of wine cups filled to the brim with white Rhenish wine , as well as a platter of sweet pastries . |
| 11 | Cold water cisterns need to be quite large to cope with the demands of an average house in the event of a mains failure — the normal recommended size is 230 litres ( 50 gallons ) actual capacity , which is around 320 litres ( 70 gallons ) nominal capacity ( filled to the brim ) . |
| 12 | At the inaugural meeting he posed this question : " Why does water not spill over a bowl filled to the brim when goldfish are added ? " |
| 13 | Any budding Blackbeard or Captain Hook would be thrilled to find this buried chest of treasure , filled to the brim with stolen loot . |
| 14 | Slowly he stepped across to the terrace and gazed down at her with eyes so racked with pain that Ruth 's own eyes filled to the brim with her despair and lost love . |
| 15 | 800 parking spaces , 112 petrol pump nozzles , as last minute preparations went on even the extra large soap dispensers were filled to the brim . |