Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] with [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The playground , which up to then had been filled with shrieks and the shouting of children at play , all at once became silent as the grave . |
| 2 | Space was at such a premium here that the narrow side streets had long since been filled with structures . |
| 3 | It was the best going I could hope to see , but just beyond that wall of water , minutes away , the ground became lacerated with gulleys , as if a maze of streams had scored the ground and had been filled with sand . |
| 4 | Like most people who knew Joyce well , she had been filled with trepidation at the prospect of seeing someone trying on Joyce 's inimitable footwear . |
| 5 | The gaps between the walls of the coral skeleton have been filled with calcite , showing up as the lighter colours of the sections . |
| 6 | Once he and his henchman had been obliged to leave the wrecked apartment on the avenue Foch , he had been filled with apprehension at having to report his failure direct to Teheran . |
| 7 | For example if , unlike the present case , the school could have been filled with boys paying the full fee , the school would have lost the fee income from the places occupied by the children of the taxpayers for whom only the concessionary fee was payable . |
| 8 | The empty chambers are usually supposed to have been filled with gas , which help to give the animal buoyancy , and via the siphuncle the animal can vary its buoyancy to control its position in the water column . |
| 9 | We 'd been filled with school milk and cod-liver oil and orange juice , but only the few scheme-housing children had bathrooms . |
| 10 | The wadi would rarely have been filled with water , but deep down , the soil was moist , and trees were able to drink from its reserve . |
| 11 | His eyes , which , moments earlier , had been filled with fear and horror , were now clear , almost calm . |
| 12 | The people behind the BBC soap opera Eldorado had been filled with fear and trepidation . |
| 13 | Page upon page has been filled with Cabinet splits , the Europe crisis , the economic crisis , the industrial and jobs crisis , the Mellor crisis … and a crisis of leadership . |
| 14 | The front pages of official newspapers have been filled with tales of glorious national triumphs , offset by with a smattering of gloom from the West — unemployment in the US , drugs in Britain , and so on . |
| 15 | The gap left by the withdrawal of the worst examples has been filled with Class 312s , and ex-London Midland 310s . |
| 16 | The mandatory field listed has not been filled with information . |
| 17 | The 40ft long deep crack in the wall of Pershore Abbey 's south transept can still be clearly seen , although it 's now been filled with cement . |
| 18 | True , at the start he had been filled with remorse . |
| 19 | She had once embraced the world with her enthusiasm , laughed at life , had been filled with compassion for those less fortunate , and what was she now ? |
| 20 | Thousands of pages have been filled with theories on how to rear your offspring . |
| 21 | The entrance has been filled with stones , but I can see a sunken area inside making a small arena , in the centre of which there 's a red stone three feet high the shape of a cotton reel and , in a round black patch , evidence of a fire . |
| 22 | At one time , the space between the timbers would have been filled with mud and straw . |
| 23 | Many were guessing that it had been filled with pepper or castor-oil or some other foul-tasting substance that would make the boy violently sick . |
| 24 | Here the vapors above heated Na 3 PO 4 have been co-condensed with argon . |
| 25 | ‘ All this time I have been riddled with guilt wondering if I would know his face . |
| 26 | ‘ I now have a wonderful little boy who is absolutely perfection , ’ she says , ‘ I know I might have had another wonderful child but I would have been riddled with doubt for most of its life . ’ |
| 27 | It had been riddled with complexities . |
| 28 | However , unconsciously I must have been riddled with remorse for so neglecting my duties . |
| 29 | At almost every level , attitudes to Karajan have been riddled with paradox and inconsistency . |
| 30 | The issue of interpretation arises again , because many systems considered have not been examined with fibre optics , through they have this potential . |