Example sentences of "[modal v] fill [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | I must fill up the list though because there 's a lot of things coming up . |
2 | You must fill out a form and attend a one-off Awareness Day ( 9am-5pm , with fares on public transport refundable ) . |
3 | De Soto and his researchers , which include economists , sociologists and anthropologists and lawyers , have worked out some of the stark costs of formality in Peru : if a group of humble families gather and ask the government to give them an empty plot of land to live on , they must fill out a maze of forms and go to scores of ministry , municipal and other government offices , a process that averages six years and 11 months . |
4 | On each check the waiter or wine waiter must fill in the date , table or room number and details of the order and sign his or her initials or number ( Figs. 6.14(b) and ( c ) ) . |
5 | But in this sense , creativity of the writer also requires creativity from the reader , who must fill in the gaps of sense with an associative logic of his own . |
6 | like a fan secret planet Wonder if I 'll fill up a whole book , there 's no chance I will . |
7 | Right , now you be a good girl for a minute , while I 'll fill up the , fill up the car alright ? |
8 | I 'll fill out a , I 'll take about six case up . |
9 | So in other words it 's about an introduction an expansion and an end Now as I 've said tomorrow I 'll fill in a bit more detail on those so if you leave some some gaps there between those three sections . |
10 | I 'll fill in the figures . |
11 | If you give me the necessary details , I 'll fill in the order-form . ’ |
12 | Erm let's face it it can be very tempting when the salesman thrusts the document under your nose , just sign here sir or just sign here madam , just a formality you understand , erm we 'll fill in we 'll fill in the details later . |
13 | Fine I 'll fill in the rest . |
14 | The way it works in three , is it only uses memory within these five hundred and twelve row boundaries , so any between one and five one two , five one three and one O two four , one O two five and one five three six and so on , it 'll fill in the gaps within those ranges , but not outside of those ranges . |
15 | I knew there would be some details that might fill in a few gaps and , indeed , I had not known that Mme G had kept in touch with Otto and that , prior to my arrival on the scene , he frequently drove over to Reine with tempting delicacies that Jean-Claude invariably refused to eat . |
16 | You might fill in a creation or save date , to pick out files either before or after that date . |
17 | If you 've got a minute you could fill up the coffee machine again , and I 'll have a word with Jerry when I get back down . ’ |
18 | Looking back at those debates on how we could fill in the time on our hands , the novelist Herbert Gold reflected that the Fifties were a time of ‘ happy people with happy problems ’ . |
19 | In the second : the obvious views , you could fill in the form for me . |
20 | The diagram has one segment filled in ; pupils could fill in the others themselves , working either in groups or individually . |
21 | R : in those days + when we were young + there was no local fire engine here + it was just a two-wheeled trolley which was kept in the borough + in the borough eh store down on James Street + and whenever a fire broke out + it was just a question of whoever saw the fire first yelling ‘ Fire ’ + and the nearest people ran for the trolley and how they got on with it goodness knows + nobody was trained in its use + anyway everybody knew to go for the trolley + well + when we were children + we used to use this taw [ t– : ] + it smouldered furiously + black thick smoke came from it and we used to get it burning + and then go to a letter box and just keep blowing + open the letter box + and just keep blowing the smoke in + you see + till you 'd fill up the lower part of the house with nothing but smoke + there was no fire + but just fill it up with smoke + just to put the breeze up + just as a joke + and then of course + when somebody would open a window or a door the smoke would come pouring out + and then + everybody was away then for the trolley + we just stood and watched all of them + + |
22 | Well , I 'd fill in the blanks as we went along . |
23 | This strand urged instead the workhouse school , the school of industry , where useful accomplishments like spinning would fill up the time . |
24 | After this he would fill in the forms with a loaded brush , slapping the colour on with a wonderful deftness of touch and sense of control . |
25 | During these pauses he would leer in the hope that his lady friend would fill in the gaps , thereby allowing him to save his energy for later . |
26 | For some time the advisory plans for London , the West Midlands and the Clyde Valley sufficed , the belief being that the development plans would fill in the detail and provide working arrangements to secure the intended redistributive objectives . |
27 | Then they used to put a thick layer round the sides to start with , then they would fill in the middle and keep that always stronger so that each layer er it curved . |
28 | and he reached a stage of heavy dependence on Lloyd George ; Birkenhead found it more congenial to work with men of ideas like Churchill than with the squires who would fill out a Unionist ministry ; Balfour had always striven to practise government by agreement . |
29 | She hoped that when he stopped smoking he would fill out a little and his knees would be less likely to bruise hers in bed , but no . |
30 | This allows the user to list a number of programs which will fill up a complete disk , or more than one disk . |