Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | We 'd been filled with school milk and cod-liver oil and orange juice , but only the few scheme-housing children had bathrooms . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | His eyes , which , moments earlier , had been filled with fear and horror , were now clear , almost calm . |
| 37 | Space was at such a premium here that the narrow side streets had long since been filled with structures . |
| 38 | It was gone in a moment , but briefly she 'd been filled with a sudden , oddly urgent desire to know more about him . |
| 39 | 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 ? |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | Thousands of pages have been filled with theories on how to rear your offspring . |
| 42 | They thought it normal for tea to come out of the fridge or the oven in a tinfoil box with a peel-back lid , although they did remember for weeks afterwards Lucy 's occasional cordon-bleu phases , when the house had been filled with heart-warming smells , and different kinds of food had appeared out of saucepans on top of the oven , and other dishes inside it . |
| 43 | Assume next that an urn has been filled with 1000 identical marbles . |
| 44 | True , at the start he had been filled with remorse . |
| 45 | Assume next that an urn has been filled with 1000 identical marbles . |
| 46 | The triangular market place was tightly packed with such properties and much of the original space had been filled with permanent buildings where once only stalls had been allowed . |
| 47 | The mandatory field listed has not been filled with information . |
| 48 | And if we 've been filled with the Holy Spirit , then we should have the evidence to go with it . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | At one time , the space between the timbers would have been filled with mud and straw . |
| 51 | The people behind the BBC soap opera Eldorado had been filled with fear and trepidation . |
| 52 | The new government was sworn in on Feb. 27 and contained only three new members , Odd Engstrom as Deputy Prime Minister ( a post which had not hitherto been filled under Carlsson ) , Allan Larsson as Finance Minister , and Eric Asbrink who entered the Cabinet as Deputy Finance Minister . |
| 53 | There were two posts allocated for social workers , but these had not been filled for a long time . |
| 54 | Many people grow up frightened of what may come after this life because their minds have been filled since childhood with ideas of hell and damnation , judgment and punishment . |
| 55 | Gradually , and despite the readiness with which the ranks of the baseej had been filled from the towns and villages , a sense of war-weariness was apparent in Iran ; in 1984 there were even newspaper reports of a loss of the will to fight in the ranks . |
| 56 | Here , the intergranular pores have been filled by an anhydrite cement leaving only leached porosity , and the sonic log displays a very clear downward-decreasing porosity profile in the uppermost unit of oolitic grainstone ( Fig. 18 ) . |
| 57 | In the second well , however , the sonic log indicates that the upper unit is much tighter and the core descriptions suggest that the pores have been filled by an anhydrite cement . |
| 58 | Another key job , Features Editor — or Assistant Editor ( Features ) in NoS -speak — had been filled by Polly Pattullo , who had served more years than she cares to remember on the Observer colour supplement before wilting under its increasing consumer bias . |
| 59 | His role as director of Advanced Workstations and AIX Systems has been filled by Tom Jarosh , formerly vice president in the company 's General Sector Division . |
| 60 | In previous years her job has been filled by a preregistration house officer . |