Example sentences of "fill it with [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Norte weaves her observations into a witty text , filling it with multicultural detail . |
| 2 | When inserting posts or stakes into the ground for use as fence supports , good rigidity can be ensured by inserting the post through the centre of a four-litre plastic ice cream carton , then filling it with concrete mix . |
| 3 | If Alice or Bert filled it with hot water and it leaked causing injury , would either of them have an action ? |
| 4 | Then she picked up the tall glass she had carried down with her , and which was now empty , walked sedately to the water 's edge , filled it with ice-cold water and returned to see that he had not shifted . |
| 5 | Then she went to the sink and filled it with lukewarm water and made the water frothy with soap-powder . |
| 6 | The second type is the block-end which has removable lids , one of which you take off while you fill it with live feed such as maggots . |
| 7 | Here we find songs which use the thirty-two-bar form but fill it with angular melody and tonally shifting harmony ( ‘ All the Things You Are ’ ; ‘ Body and Soul ’ ) or with polyrhythms ( ‘ Fascinatin' Rhythm ’ ) ; we find , too , a song like George Gershwin 's ‘ A Foggy Day ’ , which does not use a standard form , boasts a tune consisting almost entirely of leaps , rather than innocuous conjunct motion , and is structured with such motivic tightness as to be almost serial in method ( see Ex. 6.3 , p. 184 below ) . |
| 8 | For James — Pam 's 7-year-old son — I bought several ‘ beginner 's tricks ’ plus a plastic dog turd that steams when you fill it with hot water . |
| 9 | Put the shingle in one bucket and fill it with cold water . |
| 10 | But we feel so ill at ease with silence that we want to fill it with endless clatter and talk about ourselves . |
| 11 | With a great big cans , you had to fill it with that molasses , and we had to pour this all over the grass and then , shorts , our shorts were cut off breeches you see because then we used to wear them first and we cut off them off to make shorts . |
| 12 | The farmer tapped out his pipe on the half door and began to fill it with black shag from a battered tin . |
| 13 | Her response to ‘ free ’ time is to fill it with more housework , and her housework ideals shape the way she brings up her children ( the insistence on not letting a messy three year old feed herself , for example ) . |
| 14 | It had once been a well , serving the monastery , but when the Red Guards had come they had filled it with broken statuary , almost to its rim , and now the water — channelled from the hills above by way of an underground stream — rose to the lip of the well . |