Example sentences of "had begun [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , just as we had begun to enjoy the blissful peace and calm of spring , the wedding season reached its climax . |
| 2 | This was especially noticeable amongst younger Conservatives in the Commons , and amongst the life peers who had begun to join the Upper House in increasing numbers since the Life Peerages Act in 1958 . |
| 3 | In the meantime , Castro had begun to jettison the middle class and to cultivate support among the peasantry , workers and students through the use of nationalistic and class appeals . |
| 4 | From the point of view of consumers of produce grown by slave labour the advantage was going to be equally clear ; supplies of cotton from free-labour sources had begun to enter the British market and were substantially effective in reducing prices . |
| 5 | Then I would find that the grass had carpeted the rubble and the bushes had begun to climb the torn traffic lights . |
| 6 | In the USA , at the beginning of the century , the universities were also closer to seminaries , but by the 1870s they had begun to adopt the German model too , following the lead given by the new Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore , the first to emphasize research in alliance with teaching . |
| 7 | Remember that Dickens was writing before Freud had begun to uncover the immense complexity of the human personality , before William James 's pioneering work on consciousness , which showed that our conscious mind is not solid but that it runs like a stream , swirling endlessly around symbols , associations from the past ; always moving , never at rest . |