Example sentences of "filled the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Day-trippers and weekend visitors have filled the streets and riverside paths every summer for more than sixty years but only a tiny percentage are aware of the village 's remarkable gastronomic distinction , about which most communities would continually drum up a publicity fanfare . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | However , Bernard had filled the bottles with supermarket plonk , considering this adequate revenge for having been told by the same neighbour that his new perfume was ‘ rather bourgeois ’ . |
| 5 | Past owners have filled the gaps with various kinds of fillers , but the result is unsatisfactory and of course the filler itself falls out rather easily . |
| 6 | In good , relevant poetry , writers such as Timothy Dudley-Smith , Fred Kaan , Fred Pratt Green and Brian Wren have filled the gaps left by more established hymnals . |
| 7 | PROMPTED , I would like to think , by my dentist 's goading last week , readers have filled the mailbags with filo recipes . |
| 8 | It had rained heavily during the night — a sudden downpour which had filled the gutters and drains which supplied the city 's water catchment system — so that when dawn broke it could be seen that many of the drapes and festoons over archways and down the faces of stands and platforms had been torn from the frames by the weight of the water which had soaked them . |
| 9 | But Molly knew he would say when they got home , ‘ For what I shelled out for the water we might as well have filled the loos up with Chianti . ’ |
| 10 | More grist has filled the pessimists ' mill in the years since the Joint Declaration , as Peking has grown more assertive and London more timid . |
| 11 | I remember one time er these barges , old barges when you used to come up there , they ai n't got any engine in 'em at all because now they got motors in 'em , but erm , at that time , I was asleep one night and er these barges had been up , they 'd been down the the engine room , cos the engine room and the stoke hall was all in one and th and then I was so sound asleep they 'd filled the sacks up with coal and took them up over the and took the only thing they did do they did n't take the shovel they 'd used , cos they bought their shovel from off the barge and they left that downhill that 's how they 'd pinched the coal . |
| 12 | Thorns also elaborated a socio-temporal model of village communities , suggesting that there were three types of villages : those that have established structure ( long-standing and with an accepted pattern of authority ) ; those that are transitional , in which the higher-status group has lost its authority ; and those that have been re-established , in which new leaders , mainly in-migrants , have filled the roles of authority . |