Example sentences of "[was/were] filled with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The younger ones were filled with innocent fear . |
| 2 | His later declarations were filled with similar anger at the way in which Muhammad Reza was substituting Western values for the Islamic tradition in Iran . |
| 3 | There the rooms were filled with ancient furniture , preserved under white sheets , as if the house had been closed up for the summer only , while its occupant was absent . |
| 4 | In support of this the trains were filled with young Italians , dispatched to liberate Abyssinia , to help Franco in Spain and to capture Albania . |
| 5 | Not all the rooms he discovered were filled with strange objects . |
| 6 | Day after day the German heavies pounded the corpses in this gully , until they were quartered , and re-quartered ; to one eye-witness it seemed as if it were filled with dismembered limbs that no one could or would bury . |
| 7 | Our days were filled with long interviews with the architect , the plumber , the electrician and the foreman builder . |
| 8 | It was carved into planes of rugged indifference , though the blue eyes that blazed at Charity were filled with cynical censure that left her in no doubt that he had heard almost every word Mandy had uttered about him . |
| 9 | We had scaldini — large , flat , iron containers which were filled with hot water at the outset of each journey — to put our feet on . |
| 10 | WHEN Lady ‘ Bubbles ’ Rothermere died unexpectedly a month ago the obituary columns were filled with charming anecdotes about this most famous of rich , fun-loving , party going socialites . |
| 11 | Pavements and gutters were filled with cold tapioca pudding . |
| 12 | Eight big plastic dustbins were filled with clear plastic bags and flown to London . |
| 13 | He picked his way along the edge of the track , avoiding the ruts and pot-holes , which were filled with brown water , and reached the house . |
| 14 | Elevations were ultimately reduced to a matrix of concrete-encased steel beams and columns , the voids between which were filled with large , gridded , steel-framed windows surmounting low infill panels of brickwork . |
| 15 | They were filled with wall-to-wall broadloom and the finest imitation French Provincial furniture . |
| 16 | He must try to communicate that to the children who were filled with evident self-recrimination , Katherine particularly . |
| 17 | Many windows were filled with magnificent coloured glass , ranging from those of the simple parish church to the wonders of Chartres or León Cathedral . |
| 18 | A large collection of sun-hats hung on pegs in the entrance hall , bowls were filled with dried lavender and a huge pottery jar was crammed with walking-sticks , some of which had ornate silver handles . |
| 19 | The kitchen was filled with glorious smells of baking and Angus , with languid largesse , said he would n't notice if we ate a slice or two of his raisin bread , or of his apple and walnut . |
| 20 | On the one hand she was filled with total elation at the prospect of soon having Kirsty with her . |
| 21 | The office , which displayed portraits of both the last president and the new one , was filled with stale air . |
| 22 | Gomez de la Serna remembers that Picasso 's studio in the Bateau Lavoir was filled with African and Oceanic ‘ idols ’ . |
| 23 | A band was playing and the room was filled with chattering groups , waiters gliding between them with trays of fruit juice and champagne-filled glasses , others with canapés . |
| 24 | The living area was filled with personal belongings , a library of yellowing books , charts , old photographs , pre-decimal coins , a pair of binoculars , even a half full pot of paint with well hardened brush ! |
| 25 | Fred was filled with simple gratitude . |
| 26 | Below , a tightly-packed steel chamber , dark but for a few naked bulbs , was filled with squat metal ten-gallon drums . |
| 27 | The hollow in her stomach was filled with scattered feathers . |
| 28 | Sometimes conditions could be even worse : Godwin , for example , describes a London court where ‘ the basement story of nearly all the houses was filled with foetid refuse , of which it had been the receptacle for years ’ , and one water barrel of 50 to 60 gallons is intended to serve two houses , containing between them at least a hundred people . |
| 29 | The second , where I was held , was filled with Amal prisoners taken in the fighting and with local Lebanese hostages . |
| 30 | The barn was filled with harvested crops , leaving only the threshing floor clear . |