Example sentences of "filled with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What this house really wants is double-glazing , central heating , thick curtains and carpets , cellars stuffed with coal , and a log shed filled with nice dry logs . |
| 2 | Dolores O'Riordan and three other blokes and me are sitting in a van that 's parked in a yard behind Charlie 's Bar where later on The Cranberries will bring tears to the eyes of grown men and ensure that all present can say ‘ yes ’ when asked if their weekend was happy and filled with nice things . |
| 3 | There the rooms were filled with ancient furniture , preserved under white sheets , as if the house had been closed up for the summer only , while its occupant was absent . |
| 4 | Even so , he was able to look at the fireglow of the Chariot , and he was able to look into the light and see the salamanders with their wise faces and their eyes filled with ancient knowledge . |
| 5 | There 's a lemon and lime Jelly Welly at 25 pence within almost anybody 's reach and a dark chocolate novelty bow tie filled with mint fondant at 55 pence . |
| 6 | There 's a lemon and lime Jelly Welly at 25p within almost anybody 's reach and a dark chocolate novelty bow tie filled with mint fondant at 55p . |
| 7 | My sketchbook is really filled with constructional details , jotted down before they are forgotten . |
| 8 | The Welsh Prestige Stamp Book is filled with evocative photographs of Wales . |
| 9 | His industry was prodigious and he left to the Museum a volume of files , indexes , and notebooks filled with accurate and methodically arranged taxonomic work , together with his exceptionally fine library of works on Polyzoa and whales . |
| 10 | There was a terrace outside , with a low balustrade and several graceful lead urns filled with early blue pansies — they do n't look right , he thought . |
| 11 | Pots of oleander , agaves and a yucca give a Mediterranean feel to the garden , although pots brought from France and those filled with tender geraniums and fuchsias have to be overwintered in the conservatory . |
| 12 | in zig-zags filled with boiling air . |
| 13 | The air is filled with cut-glass as handsome women in the prime of life peck at each other 's cheeks and cry welcome ; their heavily built , blue-suited , florid-faced husbands exchange boxers ' handshakes with a contrived , Golf Club conviviality . |
| 14 | But now she could see the charm , could read the meaning , of the observer 's role , a meaning inaccessible to a sixteen-year-old , to a thirty-year-old — for the observer was not , as she had from the vantage , the disadvantage of childhood supposed , charged with an envious and impotent malice , and consumed with a fear of imminent death : no , the observer was filled and informed with a quick and lively and long-established interest in all those that passed before , in all those that moved and circled and wheeled around , was filled with intimate connections and loving memories and hopes and concerns and prospects . |
| 15 | Behind the Stade the Old Town nestles in a valley filled with twisting passageways , flower-filled squares and lovely cottages . |
| 16 | Two women were trapped in the cabin , with only inches of air space , as the boat filled with icy water . |
| 17 | We drink brandy filled with lazy sunshine . |
| 18 | And the eyes that challenged her across he table were just brown eyes , filled with lazy amusement . |
| 19 | Five miles outside Machynlleth in central Wales the centre occupies a disused quarry which has been surrounded with windmills and filled with gleaming solarpanels . |
| 20 | The equipment consists of a circular , high-sided tank , a couple of metres in diameter , filled with warm water which is made cloudy by adding some milk . |
| 21 | When he had returned home that day , after leaving Franco , Maria Filippa had placed a dish on the table , filled with warm fresh taralli . |
| 22 | Not all the rooms he discovered were filled with strange objects . |
| 23 | She persisted in her relationship with the new recipe book ; the kitchen at Greystones was filled with strange aromas . |
| 24 | Floy thought they probably ought to be afraid themselves , because the Tree Spirits were so inHuman and so wild and so clearly filled with strange woodland magic that once they had finished with Balor they might very well turn to the two Renascians . |
| 25 | Note any gaps in the flower borders that can be filled with other plants next year . |
| 26 | She looked around the tent , her pale eyes filled with simple curiosity , and then looked back at Peggy . |
| 27 | Fred was filled with simple gratitude . |
| 28 | She loved him so much that it was painful to just stand there watching him , and her eyes filled with easy tears . |
| 29 | After spending a quarter of an hour in the heat of the sauna , Agnes rose and took a dip in a small pool filled with ice-cold water . |
| 30 | A conducted tour of the house by the whole family , brought him at last to the top floor where his bedroom was proudly displayed , which , though huge and filled with awesome furniture of hideous elaboration , impressed him less than the meticulous care with which his soldier servant — batman was apparently a naughty word in the Guards — had unpacked his belongings and laid all essentials neatly in the right places . |