Example sentences of "first began [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was the year when , in the parks and boulevards of the great cities of the West , people first began to talk about the death of images . |
| 2 | Thus although the political initiative for the start of NEP came from the top , the economic life-blood at first began to flow from the bottom upwards . |
| 3 | He first began to think about the repercussions of such hard commercial decisions in 1971 , and by the time that he 65 became chairman of British Steel upon the untimely death of Lord Melchett he had formulated a way to ease the hardship . |
| 4 | Fairbanks found that when sea level first began to rise as the ice sheets melted , 17,000 years ago , it did so at a rate of about 4mm per year . |
| 5 | It was in those far-off days as they strolled through the parks and boulevards of the great cities of the West , that people first began to speak of the death of images . |
| 6 | When the larva first began to develop from the egg , its cells were segregated into two groups . |
| 7 | When the Romans first began to expand into the Balkans in the third century BC , the area was inhabited by Thracian , Illyrian and Celtic tribes . |