Example sentences of "[noun sg] be fill with the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were in the crowded saloon bar with the lunchtime white-shirt crowd , while the other bar was filled with the building trade . |
| 2 | Our tack room is filled with the smell of leather and saddle soap . |
| 3 | For two months the New Leader was filled with the controversy . |
| 4 | And I think it does work nicely because it , th most of the frame is filled with the girl 's hair and she 's got nice blonde hair , nicely lit , that erm is a good way of showing off her head . |
| 5 | So cardinal a quality is this , so clear a mark of a man being filled with the Spirit of Christ , that in the middle of his three chapters on spiritual gifts ( 1 Cor. 12–14 ) , Paul sets the crowning gift of love . |
| 6 | The night air was filled with the blare of motor horns , as the hunt moved off . |
| 7 | By the time she reached the Conference Room , the air was filled with the smell of burning , more even than the atmosphere recyclers could deal with . |
| 8 | FOUR hours before the polls opened this week in Cambodia , the air was filled with the sound of dull explosions and the night sky was lit up by flashes of light . |
| 9 | The air was filled with the scent of beech nuts and rotted leaves . |
| 10 | Instead of flower-infused silence , the air was filled with the clamour of autumn : the cries , the chaffing , the folksongs , the team-songs of the villages ; the chinking of blades ; the rumble of flint-studded boards driven over the threshing-ground . |
| 11 | The book is filled with the outlines of toads , bats and squirrels which did not move quickly enough out of the way of oncoming traffic . |
| 12 | Soon the garden was filled with the sound of sacred hymns and odes in praise of Guru Nanak . |
| 13 | Silence was filled with the echo of her denial . |
| 14 | The correspondence of Anselm 's last year is filled with the subject , and no one can mistake the intensity of his feeling on the matter . |
| 15 | The staircase was filled with the sounds of bellowing , screaming and thrashing shadows as Duvall burst back through the door after Barbara . |
| 16 | The kitchen was filled with the aroma of mince pies and sausage rolls cooking to a golden crispness in the oven . |
| 17 | They thought it normal for Daddy to get them up and dress and breakfast them , before he went down to morning surgery , and for Lucy once she was up to spend ages talking excitedly and gesticulating on the telephone , before consigning them ( with a kiss on the head ) to Nissy while she disappeared to the study to practise , and the house was filled with the cello 's dismal squeaks and groans , which always recovered eventually , into more or less of a tune . |
| 18 | A wide crock on the table was filled with the flower heads , the seed pods and the leaves of nasturtiums from the garden . |