Example sentences of "fill with [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sally went , relieved at not having had her love bite spotted but filled with indignation at having been blamed so unjustly for the Gran Bristow episode . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I bent forward to see if I could recognise him — there was something vaguely familiar about him , the voice perhaps — and then he hit me on the side of my head — ’ Poor Miss Watson faltered and her eyes filled with tears at the memory of that vicious blow . |
| 4 | Ruth 's eyes filled with tears at life 's cruelty and she had to swallow hard to stop them spilling . |
| 5 | Many women are filled with trepidation at the thought of their husbands ' retirement because they just want to do nothing . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Bob 's head ached and filled with fog at the effort of filtering the adult conversation out from it . |
| 8 | Ronni scowled at him , suddenly filled with alarm at the way his arm was round her waist and at the way her body longed to sink unresisting against it . |
| 9 | For Sycorax was filled with rage at her condition . |
| 10 | ( ‘ Filled with wonder at the sound of the bazouki , ’ as Jacques Vassal commented ; also emphasising Leonard 's appreciation of Theodorakis 's then emerging art . ) |
| 11 | This is hardly history but it is the past , and for those of us who are filled with wonder at those days , that past can give a powerful charge to one 's writing . |
| 12 | For a moment she did nothing , horrified , her lips drawn back from her teeth , watching how he turned the stump , observing it , his eyes filled with wonder at the thing he had accidentally done . |
| 13 | And a sausage filled with sand at the bottom of the door . |
| 14 | She knew without being told that Ana was walking in her sleep and she was filled with horror at the girl walking through the gate and beyond , perhaps waking late and not knowing where she was , unable to see . |
| 15 | He said repeatedly and consistently ( Letters , pp. 221 , 345 , 420 ) that the ‘ kernel ’ of his mythology in the story of Beren and Lúthien was not a thought , not a principle , not a calque , but the vision of ‘ a small woodland glade filled with hemlocks at Rocs in Yorkshire ’ , where he saw his wife dancing . |
| 16 | There was a small basin filled with water at one end of the mattress and I was told to gaze into it . |
| 17 | I was filled with fear at what I had done . |
| 18 | Headteachers are filled with consternation at the idea that comparative attendance figures across the LEA should be published . |
| 19 | She had a lot of questions she wanted to ask him — his pottery — his plans , but she felt too filled with emotion at the moment . |
| 20 | Ruth 's eyes filled with pain at the truth of that blunt statement . |
| 21 | She sat there in silence , and resentment made her cheeks hot : she resented the wasted hours of battle with her own desires , she resented her failed and needless attempts at empire , she was filled with hatred at the thought of lost anticipations . |
| 22 | The Dark Elves were filled with glee at the news of the loss of Alarielle , but the Witch King refused to believe the rumour of her death . |
| 23 | But even as she vowed to protect she was filled with terror at the unhappiness the fleeting expressions rehearsed ; pulled up against the staggering independence of this creature to experience its own ranges of reaction , its life , quite separate from and un-understood by her . |
| 24 | He was filled with ecstasy at the miracle of his fat , sagging body . |