Example sentences of "full [prep] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Horatio Nelson was born in Norfolk , died at sea , and is buried in St. Paul 's Cathedral — why does Monmouth have a museum full of objects associated with the famous admiral , including weapons , pictures , fine ceramics , silver and glass , ship models and letters ? |
| 2 | So the depths of the oceans are full of lights moving rhythmically around and continually turning off and on . |
| 3 | There were cardboard boxes stuffed full of clothes standing everywhere on the dusty floor . |
| 4 | Next to her is a twenty-one-year-old woman sharing her room with two little girls , two teddies and a wardrobe full of clothes acquired in the refuge . |
| 5 | I invite you up here and all you think is whether the dyke is full of nitrates poisoning the villagers . ’ |
| 6 | FIVE people died and a teenager was seriously injured yesterday when a car full of youngsters returning from a nightclub struck a tree in the Irish Republic . |
| 7 | Once when I had thought Nour loved me I had delighted in a garden full of roses surrounding a villa where his aunts lived . |
| 8 | The waters beneath the plankton contain no plants , but they are full of creatures feeding upon the plankton above , or on the bottom dwellers below , or which are migrating from one rich feeding ground to another . |
| 9 | Sir E. H. H. Allenby ( later first Viscount Allenby of Megiddo , q.v. ) misled them as to which flank he was about to attack , in part through a bloodstained haversack full of papers dropped by Meinertzhagen on reconnaissance : a classic of practical deception . |
| 10 | During the spring and summer , thousands of minibuses bearing such legends as " St Mungo 's School , Larking in the Marsh " crawl down Malhamdale , eager noses pressed to the windows and hands clutching clipboards full of papers scrawled with questions , measurements and such amatory statements as " Ruth loves Simon Carr — true " . |
| 11 | Although they were eating early in the evening , English 's was already full of Conservatives demanding in patrician tones that the bones should be removed from their Dover soles . |
| 12 | The fact that his team is full of professionals has not worried the Internal Revenue Service , though there is some sensitivity about just how close to the wind the foundation sails . |
| 13 | In some species these trailing threads , full of stinging-cells called nematocysts , can reach as far as 50 feet . |
| 14 | The children nodded their agreement , their mouths too full of cookies to speak . |
| 15 | In the northern Rockies one can even recognise at this level the " Pipe Rock " of the Scottish Highlands — a bed full of borings known as Skolithos . |
| 16 | Our prediction that multinationals would begin media campaigns to buy social and cultural acceptability seems accurate : in recent years the television screens have been full of corporations boasting about their bigness instead of concealing it , as they used to , behind their brand names . |
| 17 | In the meantime he sent back parcels full of toys to keep William 's spirits up ; wonderful toys like an electric train with a cowcatcher and a working headlight on the front and models of Liberators and Mitchell bombers and a replica of a Colt Peacemaker in a real leather holster . |
| 18 | If true , this would have implied either that the police had knowingly allowed a car that they thought was full of explosives to drive into and around the island , or that they were aware throughout the operation that the car was not dangerous . |
| 19 | He was clearly not content to sink into idle retirement but was soon full of schemes to open up Hannafore , then reachable only by a path that climbed steeply over a down that fell sharply to the Looe river in a precipitous cliff . |
| 20 | After a curious military episode — he ran away from Cambridge to join the 15th Dragoons — he arrived in Bristol in 1795 full of plans to establish a new system of society , called Pantisocracy ; this word is explained on p. 80 , but what it meant in practice was the rather grandiose idea of founding a new American colony . |
| 21 | As the cab wound its way to what , the driver assured him , was the administrative block , Grunte noticed a sports field full of girls doing gymnastics . |
| 22 | His pockets were full of remarks to make , and a bottle of bismuth in case he got nervous indigestion . |
| 23 | This is less Ben Elton-speak than naked ambition to be an admired state-of-the-art comedian who can acknowledge the wrongs of the world , shift with the politics of the time , try out new techniques ( in this case performing in theatres with a captive audience rather than in a back room full of hecklers getting up and wandering to the bar every 20 minutes ) and be funny . |
| 24 | They had spiky black-dyed hair and ears drilled full of holes to take a forest of earrings . |
| 25 | I am sure that the House can imagine the feelings of someone who hangs out the washing one sunny morning only to find , on going to collect it three or four hours later , that it is full of holes caused by the soot deposits coming out of the hospital chimney . |
| 26 | ‘ You 're a lady of mystery , full of secrets waiting to be unlocked , but that 's no problem . |
| 27 | She said there 's these hills where it 's hot and rains all the time , and in the rain forests there are these very tall trees and right in the top branches of the trees there are these like great big flowers called … bromeliads , I think , and water gets into the flowers and makes little pools and there 's a type of frog that lays eggs in the pools and tadpoles hatch and grow into new frogs and these little frogs live their whole lives in the flowers right at the top of the trees and do n't even know about the ground and once you know the world is full of things like that your life is never the same . ’ |
| 28 | It sure is full of things to see . |
| 29 | He said the studio was full of things to show her . |
| 30 | With reports from Western sources suggesting that UN sanctions against Iraq were working [ see also pp. 37639 ; 37695 ] , the Belgian Foreign Minister Mark Eyskens claimed on Nov. 18 that the effects were " visible in the factories " , where there was a " growing lack of spare parts " , although " the shops in Baghdad are full of things brought from Kuwait " . |