Example sentences of "filled the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Jay 's spine became electric as Pergolese 's Stabat Mater came through the speakers sure as it had filled the dusk of her dream . |
| 2 | They could have filled the cellars of Masham with McEwans 80/ and Youngers No. 3 from Edinburgh or with the new Theakstons-on-Tyne which the locals declare is a far inferior brew . |
| 3 | One typically frenetic four-day jaunt took him to Pontresino in the Alps to find Eritrichium nanum , ‘ King of the Alps ’ ( on the way home Evan 's chauffeur , the Snowdonia Park Head Warden John Ellis Reports , had to navigate by road-signs and instinct , Evan having filled the road atlas with pressed flower-heads of more common species ) . |
| 4 | The enthusiasm has , of course , been exploited , in the opportunistic launching of courses in women 's studies , and by the publishing industry which has filled the shelves of bookshops — general as well as academic — with books with ‘ women ’ in their titles . |
| 5 | More grist has filled the pessimists ' mill in the years since the Joint Declaration , as Peking has grown more assertive and London more timid . |
| 6 | IN ANOTHER spectacular climbdown by East Germany , more than 6,000 East Germans , who had filled the West German embassy in Prague beyond bursting point , were allowed to leave for the West last night . |
| 7 | Mr Saatchi has filled the twin role of chairman and chief executive for several years , but Mr Louis-Dreyfus 's appointment is designed to bring in financial skills at a senior level at a time when the company 's business has been under pressure . |
| 8 | PROMPTED , I would like to think , by my dentist 's goading last week , readers have filled the mailbags with filo recipes . |
| 9 | When the water has almost filled the hole , to perhaps a foot or so below the top , there is an audible pause in the proceedings . |
| 10 | Since the Baath Party came to power in 1968 , it has filled the burgeoning city of Baghdad with new roads , monuments , redevelopment zones and 45 new shopping centres . |
| 11 | He had drowned , unable to move , when the rising tide had filled the channel : Marie remembered seeing about it on the local television news . |
| 12 | Mr Ashdown , who loves to tell us that his campaign alone concentrates on ‘ the real issues ’ , had filled the entire broadcast with pictures of himself . |
| 13 | WITH a triumphant twang of the zither , the City University of London has filled the first Joe Loss Research Fellowship in Jewish Music . |
| 14 | He hath filled the hungry with good things and the rich he hath sent empty away . |
| 15 | The last owner of your LR has filled the front hubs with grease because the front swivel oil seal is faulty and would let oil leak out . |
| 16 | He more than filled the gap left by Alex ; his presence animated her with a mysterious excitement . |
| 17 | Only a few short hours before , the world 's second highest rise of tide had arrived with that familiar roar , and in a little over three hours had filled the mile wide estuary with twenty five feet of salt water . |
| 18 | Those two would have filled the entire chart but compilers restricted the number of soaps on the list . |
| 19 | Blundell has filled the vacancy which had been earmarked for first-choice newcomer Damon Hill . |
| 20 | Whichever way you decide to produce your holiday movie you still need some kind of broad action-plan in your mind ; without this , you will inevitably find that you have filled the tape with a lot of unrelated odds and ends . |
| 21 | Holly had filled the plastic bag with oil and twisted the neck tight and fastened it with a snip of wire . |
| 22 | If the sheer grit of Craig Pain 's men in wresting victory from Tongan grasps filled the Crown Colony cup with good cheer what was to come next sent if cascading over the brim as the Fijians opened the floodgates to drown the New Zealand assault on their sevens citadel . |
| 23 | Certainly world stars of this calibre would have filled the stadium a year ago . |
| 24 | Keeping furniture to a minimum , she had filled the place with books and plants . |
| 25 | Lanfranc himself was only partly converted , and , even in his last days , he was still giving quantities of the bodies of his predecessors , which had filled the old church before the fire of 1067 , to his new foundation of canons outside the walls of the city . |
| 26 | DEC has filled the critical post of head of worldwide sales and marketing , naming Edward Lucente , once an IBM bright light and a top guy at Northern Telecom for the last two years , completing its new executive roster . |
| 27 | The new industry of salmon-farming has filled the gap as far as the scavenging gulls are concerned : the rearing cages are placed in the sheltered bays and ‘ sounds ’ between the islands and are fed on high-protein , manufactured food in pellet form , which are ferried out in sacks by small boats . |
| 28 | Mrs. Campbell hoped that a tide waiter 's post might be found for the man , but there was more to it than charity , for , as she advised her cousin , William Anderson 's brother was a rich baker who had lately filled the office of deacon convener of trades in Stirling , and ‘ as he has a near connection with severalls in the present management I wish if possible you could fall on a way to get this small thing for him , it wou 'd make a noise amongest the folks to see that we are at pains to do for them ’ . |
| 29 | All that the Europeans had to do was defeat the existing ruler and proclaim that their own ruler had filled the vacant throne . |
| 30 | Univel Inc has filled the slot left vacant by its Novell legacy vice president product group , Grover Righter , when he skipped out to join SCO : It 's hired Chris Torkildson , Pyramid 's old VP of software development as its vice president development , based in San Jose , California . |