Sadness turned to remembrance, which turned into high spirits, which eventually led to a full-scale fight breaking out.

A simple little raid for slaves had developed into a full-scale fight.

He was also feeling much less ready for another full-scale fight than he'd implied, but he could hardly drop out now.

A14 Both of California's U.S. Senate seats will be open next year, and a full-scale, $70 million fight for them has already begun.

That was enough to trigger a full-scale fight.

The argument had blown up into a full-scale fight with fists and knives.

They have overheard full-scale fights between adult relatives and had guns put to their heads, experiencing firsthand the violent lives of their charges.

"Our conversation" could have fumed into a full-scale fight here if I had said all that was on my mind about bourgeois pomposity.

They were getting ready to send an entire flotilla out here in anticipation of a full-scale fight.

But the officials managed to avert a full-scale fight.