Example sentences of "[vb past] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stopped and sucked in a breath . |
| 2 | Livid , Polly sucked in a breath . |
| 3 | She sucked in a breath . |
| 4 | She sucked in a double-lungful of air and screamed , but not in pain . |
| 5 | old lady — avid for a cigarette , ‘ She sucked in the smoke … like a baby having its bottle . ’ ; |
| 6 | When he filled in a South African immigration questionnaire in 1947 he wrote ‘ Human ’ in the space marked ‘ Race ’ . |
| 7 | A week later Ian filled in a peg board starting at the outside ( perimeter ) and making smaller and smaller squares . |
| 8 | ‘ I filled in a questionnaire giving details of my previous lender and my bank . |
| 9 | At the beginning of every term he filled in a form habitually distributed to all teaching staff , requiring details of authorized absences from college ; for sabbaticals , or the marking of outside examinations , or simply because contractual staff-student contract hours had been fulfilled . |
| 10 | In my railway days , if you wanted a Privilege Ticket , you filled in a form to obtain a form , filled in by a clerk , which you presented to a booking clerk . |
| 11 | I filled in the rest of that day by pretending to be busy with the audit . |
| 12 | Cos all the other schools they filled in the rest part of the week . |
| 13 | The poser 's cafe had free newspapers and she filled in the crosswords shamelessly , was even miffed if someone else had got there first , especially with a blue Biro : Alex used a black Biro for crosswords . |
| 14 | He broke all records , but it was my mother who filled in the forms . |
| 15 | As she filled in the forms for him , the girl in Despatch , big and black and at last a friendly face , told him she was from Mississippi , and sure as hell she hated Greeks , Athens , moussaka and retsina . |
| 16 | He wonders if you filled in the forms correctly . ’ |
| 17 | From 1963 they filled in the gully and fenced the land . |
| 18 | In the second column , she filled in the address Bridget had just given her — Cherry Cottage , Buckland Dinham , Somerset . |
| 19 | She filled in the columns next to Veronica 's name , and stared thoughtfully at the piece of paper . |
| 20 | He opened the note-book and filled in the date . |
| 21 | That was that was the other thing when you filled in the C C Q , that 's when I filled in my own one , you put in the death |
| 22 | We filled in the acceptance form and phoned the school about a visit . |
| 23 | Diffidently , I filled in the form : 40,000 mile service , please . |
| 24 | Henry filled in the form and drove down to Underwoods . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I ca n't say that alcohol did anything to lift my spirits , but at least it filled in the time before my date with Detective Inspector Redpath . |
| 27 | Erm you had a statement of Barbara 's , if it was in there , it was planned so that you crew can work harder erm although you filled in the bonus question well , the there was a tend dangerous tendency for you be sucked in to go into the bonus and I think you did well to say yeah well we 'd better walk along to that so you held out which was nice because if I had if you had n't tackled that you might have been shown the door once you 'd gone through that . |
| 28 | According to the Guardian : ‘ the rector of St Tudy filled in the questionnaire for them . |
| 29 | Diane filled in an order form for a Jenner Clinic catalogue and took it over to be processed while Reynolds waited , arms folded and leaning against a pillar by the card files . |
| 30 | DAVID Sinclair made himself the ideal employee when he filled in an application form for a sales job , a court heard yesterday . |