Example sentences of "filled with a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A room which served Coleridge in a different way stood at the back of the house on the first floor : this was Tom Poole 's vaulted bookroom , created by him early in 1795 and filled with a wide-ranging library which helped to reconcile Coleridge to the loss of his frequent visits to the City Library in Bristol . |
| 2 | ‘ On the very morning of his wedding Constantin was filled with a radiant happiness of love , but his doubting nature suddenly cast a shadow across his joy . |
| 3 | He had his father 's black hair , a strong sun-tan , and seemed filled with a manic energy ; ready and eager to enjoy both Wavebreaker and our company . |
| 4 | The cylinder was filled with a compressed chemical that would have smothered both Sweetman and me in an avalanche of nauseating foam . |
| 5 | Her eyes filled with a hot prickling that he should humiliate her in public , with half of Venice floating by . |
| 6 | And it might be a good idea to keep a vacuum flask filled with a hot drink by your bedside in case you wake up in the night feeling cold . |
| 7 | It is the lens which completes the refraction of the rays of light as they pass through the posterior chamber ( which is filled with a jelloid substance , the vitreous humour ) . |
| 8 | They had danced on the night winds through the dark hours and before dawn she had flown safely home , filled with a new and fierce joy which was the warmth of Fenna 's fiery breath and the width and grace of freedom from gravity . |
| 9 | There are pressures building up for me to do all sorts of things but I do n't want to accept them , ’ she says confidently , her blue eyes filled with a new purpose . |
| 10 | The May evening was warm and filled with a golden light , and as he passed the Maria-Therese gardens the scent of the lilacs hit him with an almost physical pain . |
| 11 | Filled with a gentle and breadpaste mixture , with a couple of gentles on a number twelve hook , I think it 'd be a cert for bream . ’ |
| 12 | I was filled with a dry sadness , a mixture of remembering and knowing ; remembering what was and what might have been and knowing it was all past ; at the same time knowing , or beginning to know , that other things were happily past — at least some of my illusions about myself , and then the syphilis , for there were no signs that it was going to come back . |
| 13 | Thompson , on the contrary , has drawn lines which link the plebs with the patricians to form a deference/patronage model making sense of many aspects of social relations in a century in which the space between an old paternalist ( master/servant ) relationship and the coming discipline of the industrial economy was filled with a plebeian culture of evident vitality . |
| 14 | The North Yorkshire assistant trading standards officer , Edward Chicken , said at least 3,300 cartons were bought as fire-damaged stock , filled with a caustic chemical , then sold as ordinary washing powder . |
| 15 | If the test is failed , the adventurer is filled with a terrible anger for D10+10 turns . |
| 16 | Tethlis 's heart was filled with a terrible cold hatred for the children of Naggaroth , for they had slain his family in one of their many raids . |
| 17 | Louisa was filled with a terrible wonder at Frere 's ignorance . |
| 18 | Usually the familiar beauty of this place had the very opposite effect on her , but today as she headed towards Loch Lomond she was filled with a terrible sense of doom . |
| 19 | When the news about her parents came , she was filled with a black hatred of Greece . |
| 20 | Next we shall look at a long solenoid filled with a high-permeability magnetic material as shown in Fig. 3.9 ( p. 73 ) . |
| 21 | Folly was suddenly filled with a shuddering sense of urgency . |
| 22 | The sacs were filled with a modified Krebs-Ringer bicarbonate solution ( pH 7.4 ) containing 0.1 mM PABA-UDCA disulphate or PABA-UDCA . |
| 23 | The sounds and scents of the morning were keen and exciting yet at the centre of those sensations she was filled with a curious sort of quiet . |
| 24 | The band 's room is filled with a curious mixture of people , waiting for something to happen . |
| 25 | The room was filled with a strange , sweet smell . |
| 26 | Suddenly she was filled with a strange sense of foreboding she could n't understand . |
| 27 | As she lay blinking blindly into the unfamiliar darkness , her ears filled with a strange background hum , her tired and sleepy brain slowly realised that the sound which had awoken her had been her own desperate sobbing . |
| 28 | It could only be the hand of a man , and for a moment she stood quite still , hesitating to pick it up , filled with a gloomy presentiment . |
| 29 | Every few years the gap is filled with a useful directory , but handy as they are such titles rarely survive for more than three editions : witness the demise of the Antique Collectors ' Club 's sadly missed Guide to Specialist Nurseries . |
| 30 | The nut itself is a curious thing that grows from the so-called cashew apple , and both are filled with a nasty acid fluid that causes dermatitis . |