Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] in the [noun] " 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 | It can be seen that this was a way of ‘ blaming the victim ’ : it seems as though the young person had failed to find a job because they had not filled in the application form properly or were too untidy , rather than because there were not enough jobs . |
| 3 | Runcorn ( 1964 ) , another sizeable township of 28,000 population , followed for Merseyside and in the same year Washington largely filled in the gap between South Tyneside and Sunderland . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Two owner-trainers , Dave Smart and Billy Long , are both double handed in the final , with Bridies Ragatag and Ballitore Squire and Glowpaws Jimmy and Bobbys Patsy . |
| 6 | Proceedings may be instituted before a national court , and such proceedings have been successfully brought in the UK . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ You have n't filled in the bit about union membership , ’ she said . |
| 9 | As I said I had one quiff from Jane that was erm because somebody had n't filled in the date by which it was agreed that the Client should get a reply and suggestion was that the procedure should be changed should be non compliance , erm and then the rest of this is based on a suggestion from Rita , and I have several here now , erm . |
| 10 | Because er in the past people have n't filled in the value of the erm of the work element in in the databases . |
| 11 | Dawn ( 4.8 ) made a symmetrical pattern of squares with pegs , then filled in the rest of the board , working across and down , always putting in a peg next to one already there but the colours were haphazard . |
| 12 | Writers have sometimes brought in the phrase ‘ The Greeks had a word for it . ’ |
| 13 | Milton Keynes ( 1967 ) embraced the existing settlements of Bletchley , Stony Stratford , Wolverton and New Bradwell , in addition to 13 villages ; the constellation neatly filled in the North Buckinghamshire area between London and Birmingham . |
| 14 | However , the trader subsequently filled in the form without having reported back to her and therefore without her authority . |
| 15 | On the fringes of Banbury two hotels recently brought in the receivers . |