Example sentences of "fill [adv prt] the " in BNC.

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1 Paint , varnish , more varnish and a blow-drier hastened the effect and old brown shoe polish filled in the cracks .
2 ‘ You have n't filled in the bit about union membership , ’ she said .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 The ‘ binary policy ’ had taken shape , and in 1966 the White Paper A Plan for Polytechnics and Other Colleges filled in the details .
6 You should fill in : 1 Date of purchase 2 Your own sales number and initials 3 Description of goods 4 Quantity of goods 5 Cost per item ( unit cost ) 6 Total cost 7 Authorization code 8 Whether the goods are to be taken away or delivered You should also check the details on the card : 1 The expiry date 2 The signature ( make sure that it matches the one on the voucher ) 3 The strip on which the customer 's name is written ( make sure it has n't been tampered with ) When you have filled in the information , the customer signs the form .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 If it happened more this time , it may simply be that , with a higher-than-average turnout ( sunny weather , and so on ) , more people who normally would n't have bothered to vote , did so — and such half-hearted democrats are precisely the ones unlikely to have filled in the form .
10 Stewart had filled in the V62 form while standing in the queue moments before staging the hold-up , the jury heard .
11 Bluntly stated : an enquirer into ‘ the mind ’ has to know what is in his own mind and why it is filled in the way it is .
12 The look in her eyes filled in the unspoken words in her sentence .
13 The scheme is not out of the woods yet ; and rather than break the law Maxen last week filled in the local VATman 's registration form .
14 The Captain filled in the space where Maxwell might have thought he had to apologize , and then asked him quickly : ‘ What did you do in the north of Italy in January ?
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 Unsatisfied with this development , Edward even began to claim his sede vacante rights retrospectively : thus a benefice which was empty when a new bishop was appointed and was subsequently filled in the normal way by him , was sometimes claimed by Edward to be unlawfully filled , the patronage belonging by regalian right to the crown , even though the king had not exercised this during the vacancy of the see .
19 During one of the psychological talks , delivered to an audience of eleven , the members filled in the Wilson-Patterson Scale of Conservatism ( Wilson and Patterson , 1968 ) .
20 The pipe is filled in the usual way .
21 Because er in the past people have n't filled in the value of the erm of the work element in in the databases .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 Cadfael had been awake and afield more than an hour by then , for want of a quiet mind , and had filled in the time by ranging along the bushy edges of his peasefields and the shore of the mill pond to gather the white blossoms of the blackthorn , just out of the bud and at their best for infusing , to make a gentle purge for the old men in the infirmary , who could no longer take the strenuous exercise that had formerly kept their bodies in good trim .
25 Following the retirement of Frank Whitehead ( 1982 ) and the early retirement of Alan England ( 1984 ) neither of the posts left vacant has still been filled ; they are unlikely to be filled in the foreseeable future .
26 When you 've filled in the grid , rearrange the letters in the shaded squares to make up another word to do with the Club .
27 AFTER YOU HAVE FILLED IN THE FORM
28 filled in the ones you know .
29 If the uplands and woodlands were apparently settled by the twelfth century , other colonisation probably merely filled in the gaps .
30 He and the motor trader filled in the usual forms .
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