Example sentences of "[noun] have [been] full of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the time since we arrived back in England my mind has been full of thoughts about Fiona . |
| 2 | His career at Thame had been full of promise , attested by the Oxford University Local Examinations certificate framed on the walls of the terraced house in Cardiff in which I grew up . |
| 3 | The paper 's letters column has been full of old-soldiers ' memories and tales of cover-ups and super-weapons . |
| 4 | You see impressionism is n't art about anything very much , it 's art as description — a very lively , lovable form of description , pure and simple — whereas normally art has been full of messages and meaning and didacticism if you like — full of morality and sermonizing very often , and that is normal for art . |
| 5 | It was a long time ago and her head had been full of balls and parties , not City uproars , when she was twenty-one . |
| 6 | The process of renovation had been full of difficulties and although some success had been achieved , shortcomings and blunders had been committed . |
| 7 | Life on the Swindon bench has been full of heartbreak this season … so near and yet so far … it 's not so long ago that Town were winning week in week out … tomorrow they 've got Newcastle at home and back in the first division days they were no problem … 2-1 Swindon beat them last March |
| 8 | Life on the Swindon bench has been full of heartbreak this season … so near and yet so far … it 's not so long ago that Town were winning week in week out … tomorrow they 've got Newcastle at home and back in the first division days they were no problem … 2-1 Swindon beat them last March |
| 9 | Gabriel had been full of her own plans lately , perhaps not too observant . |
| 10 | The potential if the train had been full of toxic chemicals could have been horrific . ’ |
| 11 | As usual Maeve had been full of questions . |
| 12 | Ana had been full of her day , saying how Mitch had described England to her , explaining so openly how they had spent their time that Felipe relaxed and became quite gracious to Mitch . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's an international career coming to a close and one that people have been full of admiration for for over a decade . ’ |
| 14 | Whereas John 's will had been full of retribution , Jennie in one sentence thanked the thirteen people she considered important in her life and asked that they should simply ‘ share and share alike ’ . |
| 15 | That young man had been full of laughter , a bright-eyed echo of her own youth , one whose passion and sensitivity had made her dare to dream of a permanent partnership . |
| 16 | Her life had been full of pain and perplexity ; it is not too much to say that her emotional needs had been fastened on a man whom she never properly understood , and that he in turn was baffled and then enraged by her insistent and neurotic demands upon him . |
| 17 | Even the mechanics had been full of praise . |
| 18 | But the road had been full of holes . |
| 19 | For weeks the newspapers had been full of stories about it , with , over and over again , people describing how well they lived in this country , how much they loved their homeland , how they did everything to strengthen East German socialism — as if there were not several thousand people leaving the country in a panic at the time . |
| 20 | But only days after his statement , and on a regular basis ever since , the newspapers had been full of holiday bargains and talk of overcapacity in an industry in which profit margins are already wafer thin . |
| 21 | ‘ The wireless and newspapers have been full of the flood . |
| 22 | SOUND ADVICE Over the last couple of years , newspapers have been full of articles about financial advisers , like Barlow Clowes and the Levitt Group , that have gone bust . |
| 23 | Tony Ward , the BAF spokesman , would only say the hearing had been full of ‘ extremely complicated and technical aspects . ’ |
| 24 | Her cousin 's look had been full of spite . |
| 25 | The next day the TV critic of the Express noted that the Telethon had been full of publicity-grabbing TV stars jostling to exploit the programme for their own careers . |
| 26 | In the old days , before the advent of Mr Cook 's steamers , when tourists used to sail down to Luxor by dahabeeyah , the port had been full of the old-fashioned , native sailing craft . |
| 27 | The news on TV had been full of it . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | For the last few months , the papers have been full of stories about Love Doves , Disco Biscuits and Dennis the Menaces , and now they bring you Special K , Vitamin K , Kit-Kat . |
| 30 | In recent weeks the Bangkok papers have been full of photos of bonfires of pirated audio tapes . |