Example sentences of "filled with [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 4 oz ( 100g ) gammon steak ( all fat removed ) with a slice of pineapple , and 4oz ( 100g ) potatoes and unlimited other vegetables PLUS AUTUMN PUDDING ( see recipe , page 154 ) OR CHICKPEA AND FENNEL CASSEROLE ( see recipe , page 156 ) , plus 1 banana sliced lengthways , filled with 4oz ( 100g ) frozen raspberries or blackcurrants and topped with diet yogurt |
| 2 | As soon as the offices and shops closed at noon , the square and all the streets leading off it were filled with bicycles , then as now the best way of getting about in Parma . |
| 3 | All I want to do now is stagger back to the hotel , steep in a hot bath filled with spices and unguents , order a snack from room service , and key in my remote to check up on Rainbow . |
| 4 | Memory of a basket to be filled with blackberries . |
| 5 | The streets are generally unpaved , rough , dirty , filled with vegetable and animal refuse , without sewers or gutters , but supplied with foul stagnant pools instead . |
| 6 | Upstairs , in a room filled with boots and coats , the two Dukes leaned over a map while Sharpe amplified his report . |
| 7 | In Protostrongylus infection there is a somewhat larger area of lung involvement , the occlusion of a small bronchus by worms resulting in its lesser branches which occur toward the lung surface being filled with eggs , larvae , and cellular debris ; the whole lesion has a roughly conical form , with the base on the surface of the lung . |
| 8 | It too is filled with inscriptions , with banners and with a multiplicity of framed thank-offerings . |
| 9 | Try potato nests filled with okra , filo pastry filled with eddoes and mushrooms , and turkey and celeriac in a rich , creamy sauce . |
| 10 | A top line interior decorator had been given a free hand when Hugo had bought the triplex two years ago and no expense had been spared — the walls were hung with some of Hugo 's collection of Old Masters , glowing against the background of watered silk , the shelves were lined with leather bound first editions which neither Hugo nor Sally would ever open , much less read , every nook and cranny was filled with treasures and objets d'art displayed on dainty pedestals . |
| 11 | There were enormous churches filled with treasures ; sheltered creeks ; colourful fishing boats . |
| 12 | It burned with a pure and nursery flame in a blue and white saucer filled with matchsticks . |
| 13 | There were all sorts of jokes about National Service and this was going to be one of them — the barracks filled with misfits who no more wanted to wear a khaki uniform than they felt like taking poison ( which some of them thought was what they were given three times a day in the cookhouse ) . |
| 14 | We laboured for her because we liked her , but she tolerated no lazy work : she was a perfectionist and she had taste , insisting on only the best materials , which was unusual in the suburbs , where Victorian or Edwardian houses were generally smashed open and stripped bare , only to be filled with chipboard and Formica . |
| 15 | He lies in a cot equipped with a special mattress which is filled with liquid ; he lies on so resilient a surface that it is very close to actually lying in liquid , as of course the unborn infant does . |
| 16 | The cavity in the drawing is filled with ball.bearings . |
| 17 | As well as the cake — light , fluffy stuff with frosty icing and no body to it , Ruth privately thought — there were freshly baked rolls , split and filled with ox-tongue . |
| 18 | Tallis ran from the long-house , arms filled with furs , blankets , cord and sacks of oatmeal and barley . |
| 19 | It is a vessel filled with perfumes , sounds , projects , moods . ’ |
| 20 | I varied the days and the times of my visits so as to catch this resourceful woman at her different occupations , for example making the wild boar and hind sausages , for which she was renowned in the neighbourhood , and the tarts filled with medlars that grew against the wall of her stable . |
| 21 | He was filled with dismay . |
| 22 | Behind Napoleone Lomellini and his noblemen ; behind the Pallaviccino , the Doria , the families of Gentile , Verdure , Archerio , de Pastino and the ranked faces , filled with hate , of the soldiers , there stood the men hitherto guarded as hostages . |
| 23 | Knowing of his involvement with another woman , however , had meant that that hole was in danger of being filled with hate , not sorrow . |
| 24 | The big church was filled with baskets of beautiful flowers and an organ played soft music . |
| 25 | Troughs outside the kitchen can be filled with chives , marjoram , thyme and sage in one trough , and parsley , mints , borage , French sorrel and lemon balm in another , depending on space available . |
| 26 | I went mid-week in the afternoon , when the streets were filled with activity and the baths were empty . |
| 27 | He spoke irritably , his mind filled with figures that still needed to be written down . |
| 28 | From April , when spring bulbs , shrubs and herbaceous plants start flowering in earnest , until the summer bedding is dismantled in late September , there should be no problem keeping the garden filled with colour . |
| 29 | At once the tank-like cage of the viewer was filled with colour . |
| 30 | Again the viewing cage was filled with colour . |