Example sentences of "[noun pl] filled with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At home I grew up in old Victorian houses filled with antique furniture . |
| 2 | Let me not forget to mention the bakery in Waipukurau , which served us the most magnificent cream ( real cream ! ) buns filled with delicious real fruit conserve — wow ! |
| 3 | Try ‘ cassata Siciliana ’ — a delicious ice-cream studded with candied fruit , or excellent pastries filled with sweet ricotta cheese and candied fruit . |
| 4 | Waiters dressed in pale blue gowns — male and female , Han and Hung Mao — hurried between the levels , carrying broad trays filled with exquisite ceramics , the bowls and pots a pure white , glazed with a blue marking . |
| 5 | From the moment that you arrive at college you will be involved in what is popularly known as " taking notes " and as likely as not within a few weeks you will be the possessor of tattered notebooks filled with illegible hieroglyphics or , worse still , of masses of mixed-up bits of paper . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | No blue skies , just the same depressing grey she had grown used to , and as the events of yesterday flooded relentlessly into her mind her eyes filled with helpless tears . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She looked around the tent , her pale eyes filled with simple curiosity , and then looked back at Peggy . |
| 10 | ‘ Apparently not , ’ she whispered as her eyes filled with stinging tears . |
| 11 | She loved him so much that it was painful to just stand there watching him , and her eyes filled with easy tears . |
| 12 | His teeth bit into her shoulder but she only came closer and he made a low , frustrated sound deep in his throat , tilting her face and staring at her with eyes filled with burning darkness . |
| 13 | When she looked at him through eyes swimming with tears his face was taut with feeling , his eyes filled with burning tenderness . |
| 14 | Topaz had turned very pale , her eyes filled with such fury that Amsterdam recoiled . |
| 15 | Her eyes filled with sudden tears . |
| 16 | Her eyes filled with sudden , angry tears . |
| 17 | Her royal blue silk dress came out once more , her lustrous dark hair flowing on to her shoulders , and her beautiful eyes filled with joyful anticipation as she strolled into Joanna 's room . |
| 18 | Responsibility for the clean-up operation now falls on the German state , whose legacy includes two lakes filled with radioactive waste and massive tips of soil contaminated with uranium . |
| 19 | Many medieval manuscripts have decorated borders filled with comic animals and birds and people . |
| 20 | One of the sentences in one of the little stories in the booklet ( in its own words filled with useful and stimulating ideas to help executives lead and inspire their people ) talks about the fine arts of management . |
| 21 | Old bottles , minerals , stones , shells , tiny baskets filled with dried flowers , old wooden or papiér mâché boxes , miniature bottles in different shapes , pretty dishes containing pot-pourri , an assortment of small vases stuck with single-stem flowers or leaves … |
| 22 | Above : Tins filled with hand-baked biscuits , shortbread or tea bags , from £7.25 , Lakeland Plastics |
| 23 | Giles was talking of childhood holidays in Devon ; hayfields filled with wild flowers , corn-sheaves , butterflies . |
| 24 | Later animals had deeper cups filled with many light-sensitive cells , until gradually more complex true eyes evolved , and made eye-spots redundant . |
| 25 | Yes , we had stumbled back in time all right , to those days of portion control when catering managers were gods , working miracles of loaves and fishes on ever smaller plates filled with dry greenery and tomatoes cut like starfish . |
| 26 | Around the perimeter of the room , the shadows of the literate flickering gracefully on its walls , there were convulsive scramblings for miniature baked potatoes filled with cream cheese and caviar . |
| 27 | And the cracks filled with soft rheumatism . |
| 28 | Magnificent buildings filled with magnificent things . |
| 29 | We also had wonderful refreshments ; my favourites were shortcrust pastry boats filled with delicious fresh cream . |
| 30 | Dreams filled with suffering and strangeness . |