I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be filled to capacity (= be completely full )
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The courtroom was filled to capacity.
be filled with a smell
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The house was filled with the smell of baking bread.
be filled with anger/be full of anger
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His face was suddenly filled with anger.
be filled with gloom
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She was filled with gloom as she looked around the place.
be filled with happiness
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As I drove back home, I was filled with happiness.
be filled with joy/be full of joy
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I was full of joy at the thought of seeing her again.
be filled with pity/full of pity
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His heart was filled with pity for them.
be full of admiration/be filled with admiration
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I’m full of admiration for what you’ve done.
be full of hate/be filled with hate
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People’s faces were full of hate.
be full of remorse/be filled with remorse
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Filled with remorse, Dillon decided to resign.
be full of/filled with excitement
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They were full of excitement at the thought of meeting a real movie star.
be full of/filled with hatred
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She told me, in a voice full of hatred and contempt, that I meant nothing to her.
fill a container
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Two big containers were filled with water.
fill a cup
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Angie filled the cup and handed it to him.
fill a position (= find someone to do a job )
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We are now seeking to fill some key positions in the company.
fill a post (= find someone to do a job )
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They have advertised the post but it hasn't yet been filled.
fill a vacancy (= find or be a new person for a job )
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We are making every effort to fill the vacancies.
fill a vacuum
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What political ideas have filled the vacuum left by the fall of communism?
fill (a vehicle) up with petrol
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She stopped to fill up with petrol.
fill in/fill out/complete a questionnaire (= answer all the questions in it )
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All staff were asked to fill in a questionnaire about their jobs.
fill in/fill out/complete a questionnaire (= answer all the questions in it )
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All staff were asked to fill in a questionnaire about their jobs.
fill in/out a form (= write the answers to the questions on a form )
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Fill in the form and send it back with your cheque.
fill out/fill in an application (= write all the necessary information on it )
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I would like to fill out an application for the position.
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You can fill in the application form online.
fill out/fill in an application (= write all the necessary information on it )
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I would like to fill out an application for the position.
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You can fill in the application form online.
fill the void
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Running the business helped to fill the void after his wife died.
fill up with fuel (= put fuel in a vehicle's fuel tank )
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Before leaving, I filled up with fuel at the local petrol station.
filled in...blanks
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When you’ve filled in the blanks , hand the form back to me.
filled/full to the brim (= completely full )
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The cup was filled to the brim with coffee.
filled...with dismay
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The thought of leaving filled him with dismay .
filled...with dread
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The prospect of flying filled me with dread .
filling station
fill...void
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The amusement park will fill a void in this town, which has little entertainment for children.
sb’s eyes fill with tears
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His eyes filled with tears as he recalled his mother’s sacrifices.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
air
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They circled in the wind, their cries filling the morning air as we crossed the bottom meadows into the hamlet.
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But there is another way to make it float, which is to fill it with hot air .
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A spark-boat sputtered by, filling the air with the smell of ozone.
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A cacophony of violins, clarinets and trumpets fills the air .
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The child stops, judders violently, fills his lungs with air , ready for more.
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A sheet of flame issues from our ranks; a cloud of smoke fills the air and obscures our vision.
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A huge chasm had appeared with flames creeping through and billowing smoke filling the air .
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Leafu autumn filled the air , but even so the afternoon had the temperate, almost silky feel of mid-summer.
application
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Application forms Sometimes you will be required to fill in an application form which will be used to select candidates for interview.
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During those terrible months after getting his pink slip, he filled out endless application forms.
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Please read the notes before filling in the application form on pages 3 and 4.
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And they push and prod them to do everything from filling out college applications to finishing their science projects.
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It could allow only 800 posts to be filled out of more than 1,700 applications nationwide.
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Since January, those applying for loans up to $ 100, 000 need only fill out a one-page application .
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Simply fill in the application form and return it to your branch.
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Besides, she was busy writing letters and filling out applications for grad school.
bill
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It is the one construction which will fill the bill exactly.
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It just happened that Bobby filled the bill in this case.
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And certainly, Peter Weiss' Marat-Sade fills the bill for audience and company alike.
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In the end, only some form of income subsidy will fill that bill .
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In lieu of real out-of-town travel, Kingfisher fills the bill nicely.
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For many of these postindustrial wanderers, the primal quality of pentecostal worship seemed to fill the bill .
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Had she been a man, his dear friend Aspasia could have filled the bill .
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Luckily, Colossal still fills the bill .
blank
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Choose New Card or New Contact and fill in the blanks .
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That gave Clinton the opportunity to fill in the partisan blanks , in greatly unflattering terms.
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To build these clever applications, you just select from menus or fill in the blanks on forms.
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But the Holy Spirit would fill in the blanks .
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Concert work fills the blanks in her diary left by the Bastille debacle.
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Still, some means had to be found to fill in the blanks .
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Does the whole conceptual perspective of the Monitor theory narrow down to a focus on filling in the blanks ?
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The author then filled in the blanks about how wise, handsome, brave, and team-spirited they were.
brim
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Siobham half fills each glass in turn except one which she fills to the brim .
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Looking back, Susan saw South Park filled nearly to the brim with cloud, only the saw-toothed peaks rising above it.
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Jacob filled to the brim with sorrow for the woman whom, despite everything, he had loved.
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Children are wise and strong and filled to the brim with compassion.
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She was here in the flesh to oblige Miss Beard, but her mind was filled to the brim with Joss Barnet.
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Tipping the pencils from a paper cup, he filled it to the brim .
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The big cup with the chipped handle had been filled almost to its brim with milky cocoa.
capacity
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Participants said the city's main square was filled to capacity .
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The room was filled to capacity that night with professionals all dressed up and on their best behavior.
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He bathed his face in the fountain of her body liquid, and filled his mouth to capacity .
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The ship, it is said, is filled to capacity with sperm oil.
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The Lake District National Park is filled to capacity for much of the summer.
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Four 26-week groups are run simultaneously and are always filled to capacity .
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A safety valve releases any excess pressure once the air chamber has been filled to capacity .
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Were the planes leaving Sky Harbor for Texas and Pennsylvania filled to capacity ?
fear
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But my heart became filled with fear when I saw no prisoners.
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The younger ones were filled with innocent fear .
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His voice was filled with dread and fear and heavy weights.
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Her mind was filled with fears and hopes, the principal one being the same for her as for him.
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Yes, we love them, but their power over us fills us with fear and gnawing guilt.
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His eyes, which, moments earlier, had been filled with fear and horror, were now clear, almost calm.
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But it was not the sight of Sir Hugo or the girl that filled the men with fear .
form
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Sponsor Form Important Please take photocopies of this form before filling it in if you are going to collect lots of sponsors.
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Normally forms must be filled out before such badges can be issued, including disclosure of a criminal record.
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At Trent Park, you will be given a registration form to fill in and hand in before starting the walk.
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He was using false addresses on every form he filled out.
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Masses of forms to fill , medicals, then the issue of an enormous pile of kit.
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There were forms to fill out.
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They should get their form back all filled in with the area they forgot highlighted.
gap
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This has allowed short term seated events to fill the gaps in the programme between major exhibitions.
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Corporate social scientists now candidly admit that with the disintegration of traditional social structures, companies have filled the gap .
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They then considered how best to fill these gaps - what research strategies, and what people and resources would be needed.
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I suspect that if the government gets out of the way, more charities will eagerly fill whatever gap is created.
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This idea should fill a gap in its particular market.
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Foreign agribusinesses, using sophisticated Internet marketing, quickly fill gaps in U.S. supplies of everything from asparagus to garlic.
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Sickness of workers requires skilled process workers from other shifts to fill the gap .
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Steve Chamberlain of Capitol Video in Hollywood said the new film will fill in gaps and expand segments from the original.
glass
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Siobham half fills each glass in turn except one which she fills to the brim.
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In the kitchen I filled a glass and gave it to Edusha.
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He filled a glass full of water and returned to his daughter's bedroom.
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Toni filled the glasses with ice cubes and watched as Letia slid two thick red steaks under the broiler.
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The aim of the game is to see which of the teams can fill up their glass the first.
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He opened them each a beer and filled his own glass from one of the pitchers.
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The game continues until one team fills the glass .
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Three waiters descended on the table, filling water glasses , adjusting silverware and plates.
house
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It filled every house we lived in, spilling from every surface, crammed on to beds and shelves.
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In previous years her job has been filled by a preregistration house officer.
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Lenny has filled the house again.
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Again young laughter would fill the house .
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In the kitchen Maude was singing softly as she baked bread, its sweet, fresh scent filling the house .
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We lost the topsoil that had been back-filled against the new house .
job
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Are employers using Compact to fill unattractive jobs ?
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The results, which are kept on file, are referred to when filling job orders.
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A first-class woman columnist would come from the Liverpool Post, along with the man to fill the key job of chief sub-editor.
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Ream was the last of the outsiders to fill the job .
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Perhaps the clearest indication of this was the difficulty he encountered in filling the job of finance minister in his new cabinet.
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Students are the people who, one way or another, will end up on our doorstep to fill our jobs .
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Dave and Debbie Casson decided to share a ministry, offering themselves as a team to fill one job .
mind
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An idea began to fill her mind , blocking everything else so that she could only fix on it.
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Memories of Bryan and Jennifer filled his mind .
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Rohan filled her mind , sleeping and waking.
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The past fills our minds , but only the past of the last four decades.
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But every minute of the day, music filled his mind .
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It is true that Jacob will emerge more than just unscathed from the danger that fills his mind as he returns home.
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Letting the questions fill his mind .
need
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Others can fill your needs , like finding a reliable defender.
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It was vital to fill those needs so that women would begin to buy tickets and travel by airlines.
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The wide acceptance of this style guide, and similar ones in other disciplines, suggests that it fills a need .
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He could get his feet on the ground by filling a lefty bullpen need .
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Antonia Fraser's admirable book has entirely filled that need .
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One man who did this and filled a great need was James Watt.
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Engineering does not start by knowing the answers but by attempting to fill the need .
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Where bilingual ballots do fill a need is in the initiatives such as bond issues, charter amendments and the like.
page
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You might fill half a page or a dozen pages before you come to a standstill.
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News of, and speculation about, the creature fills the pages of local newspapers and dominates the airwaves.
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I could fill an eight-\#page supplement with their letters.
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Sometimes the questioning went on for several days, and always the words were transcribed to fill hundreds of pages of transcript.
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I could fill pages and pages with lists of self-help groups that have grown out of this discovered energy.
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Soon Evan had filled his notebook page with memories of diving under the water to get a closer look at the boat.
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A droll comment from time to time enlivens the dry information that fills most of the pages of a typical register.
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After filling several notebook pages with black scrawl, I stopped the recorder.
place
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Phillip Neill also fills second place in the 750 championship, with 109 points to Morrison's 120.
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Then it became a problem of moving the more intrepid ones westward so that others could fill their places .
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Bodies crushed and absorbed, Tallis-Holly herself became trapped in the quivering, silent forest that filled the stone place .
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Emma-Jane Mac filled third place on Everest Oyster with the only other clear round of the jump-off.
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London will again fill one of the places with Glasgow, Manchester and Birmingham competing for the other spot.
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Headteachers began filling empty reception class places with under-fives in the Seventies because the low birth-rate had caused a shortage of five-year-olds.
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She filled her place , she fetched and carried for him, but any tame girl would have done as well.
position
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Eagle currently has no finance director, and a person to fill this position is being actively sought.
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Elections give newcomers the chance to unseat incumbents or to fill vacated positions .
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The Vice-Chairman was unable to fill the vacant position so an interim administration was formed to take us to the next assembly.
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Last fall, Kaczynski applied for a job at the Blackfoot Market, but Potter had already filled the position .
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It informs them that others in society are more important and have a natural right to fill certain positions .
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I participated in a national competition called to fill eight positions of associate professor in gastroenterology.
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Not all groups feel the need to fill all of these positions .
post
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However the appointment of staff to fill the new posts meant that our overall complement was little changed and consciences were salved.
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MacDonald could scarcely find enough party stalwarts with the ability or experience to fill even the major posts .
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The training council is now trying to recruit some one to fill the £45,000-a-year post .
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She used to be with Grand Metropolitan and now, apparently, they've had to appoint men to fill her post .
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Mr Ozal is now under pressure to seek agreement with the opposition on a suitably dignified figure to fill the post .
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Also, when does the right hon. and learned Gentleman hope to fill the post of Director of Public Prosecutions?
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Staff are also seconded to fill established posts in geological survey departments in the developing nations of the Commonwealth.
role
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This will have profound implications for established roles and relationships, and the development of people with talent to fill the roles.
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Thomas gave Rose credit for filling the role of point guard Wednesday.
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Inside, however, I felt inherently inferior, inadequate to fill the role .
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With the shift toward commercial traffic plus diminishing federal support, most regional providers have to evolve to fill new roles .
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But, for the most part, these men and women were hired to fill more junior roles than Mr Steffen's.
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And who, today, comes anywhere near filling that role ?
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We deny this, only to the inevitable result that we fool ourselves, and fill our leadership roles with fools.
room
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Cold glass and cold metal frame filling that room .
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Clouds of steam from the dishwasher filled the room when the going got heavy.
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In the transmitter, infra-red is modulated to carry the analogue sound information which then fills the room .
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Her knowledge of publishing trends, literary history, and books of every description and genre, however, filled rooms .
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I was too excited by the sight of all the beautiful objects that filled the room .
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Nobody would be there with the party filling the other rooms .
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Then the stench of burning bodies fills the room .
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A lamp, a table, light filling a room .
seat
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People began filling up the empty seats .
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San Marcos then held a special election to fill the open seat , for which Thibadeau campaigned and lost.
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He filled 80, 000 seats in a soccer stadium.
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These bargains are designed to fill airline seats or hotel rooms that would otherwise sit empty.
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And he knew he was the only one of them who could truly justify filling that empty seat .
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The Conservative margin is expected to be reduced to one after two upcoming elections are held to fill vacated seats .
shoe
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Mr. Forth I am constantly conscious of my illustrious predecessors and daily find it difficult to fill their shoes .
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But I think that she would hope that some of her students would help to fill her shoes .
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Nor had they, because the old devils had filled their shoes with earth from Balnagowan in Easter Ross.
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Then, as men often do, I found a woman who could fill her shoes , and married her.
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Managers who never leave do not have to wait for another manager to retire or die so that they can fill their shoes .
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But the sea rushed in, smoothing away the names, filling her shoes with frothy, sandy water.
smoke
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The pub was filling and the smoke haze thickened as spirits rose.
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The gin flows and the room fills with smoke .
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But then the room was filled with light and smoke .
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The watching team could see through the windows that the interior of the chamber quickly filled with smoke .
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Instead we sat silently in the cab as it slowly filled with smoke .
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The car was filling with smoke .
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The town's alleyways were filled with black smoke .
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Another passenger convinced her to leave the plane, which was quickly filling with a choking smoke .
space
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Incidentally, direct a little light down behind the speaker: it fills the space behind him and makes him more three-dimensional.
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Life has filled a space in the grove with wood reaching higher than I can.
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The continents sit on shifting plates that form the outer crust of the Earth; and the oceans fill the spaces in between.
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If Virginia Street seemed to stretch the material to fill the space , this second play seems to cram it in.
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It fills all space , penetrating and permeating everything.
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Prosperity was an endless prairie, and corporations expanded almost exponentially to fill those empty spaces .
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New leaves will soon grow to fill the space .
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Why fill up the space any sooner than necessary?
tank
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But you couldn't feel smug about filling up your tank with unleaded while all that was going on.
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At the pole, we fill the tanks with 400 tons of water and 700 tons of hydrogen and oxygen.
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To operate, always fill the water tank while the machine is disconnected from the mains socket.
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Then fill up the gas tank .
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There were plenty more to fill your tank to the one inch to two gallons stocking ratio recommended.
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Find something to eat and fill up the gas tank and see what the day brought.
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These dutiful wives will stoke their boilers, fill their tanks to keep them running.
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The problem is filling the antimatter tanks without annihilating them.
tear
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As she replaced the receiver with a sad little gesture she felt her eyes fill with tears .
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Once, my eyes start to fill with tears and I excuse myself and go to find the bathroom.
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Her eyes suddenly filling with tears , she shook her head.
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The air was filled with tear gas and hordes of these balloons floating on to the streets below in the afternoon sun.
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When Ken came home, he walked into my room, his face filled with tears .
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The hollow eyes on the pillow were filling with tears .
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When Caterina hears this her eyes fill with tears , and Gilfil would like to comfort her.
vacancy
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Blundell has filled the vacancy which had been earmarked for first-choice newcomer Damon Hill.
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In fact, many teachers have left private preschool jobs to help fill the vacancies in primary-grade classrooms.
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These are the course which will fill their vacancies rapidly.
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The Executive Committee shall have power to fill any vacancy occurring in the office of Auditor during the year. 10.
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Then, too, the band or orchestra directors may encourage kids to fill certain vacancies in the ensembles.
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No wonder, then, that so many candidates are competing to fill the vacancy in DeKalb.
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Clinton filled two vacancies on the high court in his first term.
vacuum
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And Right-to-Life ideology has filled the vacuum .
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Luis Rodriguez Zapatero will fill the vacuum created when Felipe Gonza lez was defeated as prime minister in 1996.
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With fewer material battles to fight, character, values and faith seem to have filled the vacuum .
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No new politician has come to the fore, so others vie to fill the vacuum .
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But our instinctive need to fill the vacuum inspires us to the ultimate irony: We turn 12 average citizens into killers.
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Bargaining might be said to help fill the vacuum that in other systems is occupied by disciplined political parties.
void
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The non-official majority was able to reduce the power of civil servants but powerless to fill the ensuing void .
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In the resulting culture of pain, sadness and despair, disenfranchised young men fill the void of personal power with guns.
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Husbands may put even more effort and hours into employment outside the home to fill the void .
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So we try to fill the void by attacking other people, somehow taking esteem from them.
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Often companies fill their voids with waste.
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No accelerated training session can completely fill this void .
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It fills all the interconnected voids , and the volume of water depends on the porosity and permeability of the rock.
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A major consideration in 1983 was to fill the void left by the closure of the old dockyard.
water
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To operate, always fill the water tank while the machine is disconnected from the mains socket.
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Simple tasks like filling sandbags or carrying water to the shower area were suddenly difficult.
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If a fault develops in the machine water feed the product container can fill with water.
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For Los Angeles to take their water to fill their washtubs and water glasses was one thing.
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After filling a glass with water , she returned to the kitchen and sat down and slowly sipped the water.
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Three waiters descended on the table, filling water glasses, adjusting silverware and plates.
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The abandoned mines would fill with water contaminated with iron, acids and chlorides which could seep through ground waters affecting rivers.
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Meanwhile the tunnel, open to the spray, was filling up with water .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fit/fill the bill
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A floral design with a Regency stripe background, for example, fits the bill perfectly.
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And the martini fits the bill ?
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But it also fits the bill because people could order their favorite liquor.
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It is revealing, therefore, to see what sort of people are thought to fit the bill in these places.
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It just happened that Bobby filled the bill in this case.
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Many other jobs get handed out simply because a minister happens to know some one who might fit the bill .
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The fact that she and Hugh happened to fit the bill seemed to give her every opportunity for finding out.
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The martini perfectly fits the bill because of its simplicity.
step into/fill sb's shoes
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She stepped into her shoes , grabbed her clothes, and ran that way.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Fill the hole with a mixture of compost and sand.
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A feeling of joy filled his heart.
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After heavy rains in March, the reservoirs began to fill up.
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An audience of over 5,000 had filled the hall that night.
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Boxes and piles of magazines filled every room in the house.
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Computers used to fill up entire rooms.
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He had a notebook that he had filled with stories and poems.
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Her eyes suddenly filled with tears.
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I found a clean mug and filled it.
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Just turn on the faucet and fill it up.
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Mix the spinach and cheese and use it to fill the pasta shells.
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The days were hot, filled with sunshine and clear skies.
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The smell of smoke filled the house.
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They opened the doors and the hall quickly filled.
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Visitors fill Brighton's streets during the summer.
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We stood at the counter, filling our bowls with salad.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Agelong Hindu cruelty to his unhappy brethren filled Ambedkar with anger and spite.
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He seemed to Robbie's eyes to fill the limited space.
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Morsels of luscious chocolate that seem shaped by a jeweller's hand are filled with sumptuous extravagances.
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Not without hesitation, he filled his water-bottle.
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Some analysts suspect that even the big companies will be stretched to fill all those extra berths.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
drink
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Here the nomads water their flocks and the horses drink their fill when the tourists have dismounted.
eat
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Why were those high-fibre eaters keeping slim even when they were eating their fill ?
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Menelaus gave them a courteous greeting and bade them eat their fill .
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There was still time for Frankie, if he was very quiet and very careful, to eat his fill .
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I stopped at some blackberry bushes and ate my fill .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be filled to overflowing (with sth)
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For the moneyed and the merely curious, stalls and kiosks were filled to overflowing .
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For the remainder of that summer churches were filled to overflowing and numerous conversions took place.
step into/fill sb's shoes
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She stepped into her shoes , grabbed her clothes, and ran that way.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And as I stood and gazed my fill A stable-boy came down the hill.
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He probably can not afford to get his fill .
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The fill must be stabilized before big-time development can start on the island.