Example sentences of "beginning [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gazing idly over the rolling green lawns , she watched the red glow of the sun , slowly beginning to sink down over the horizon . |
| 2 | There was no immediate sign of an answer , but after Creggan had given up any hope of a reply and was looking at the path lights beginning to come on in the Park outside the Zoo there was a subtle shift of talons in Slorne 's cage , a gentle shift of wings , the swiftest of meek glances , and Creggan , too late to catch the look full on , yet sensed that in her mute way Slorne was saying ‘ Yes , oh yes , you were right to predict her return ’ This knowledge that another eagle there believed his prediction had been right gave Creggan comfort in those first weeks in the Cages . |
| 3 | I was busy doing interviews , as the media were beginning to pick up on the story . |
| 4 | Oxfordshire and west Buckinghamshire beginning to calm down after the rush hour this evening . |
| 5 | Even so , Artemis had no time to relax or to shout at whoever it was still charging up beside her to slow down because the hill was beginning to flatten out into the dip and they were fast approaching the big open ditch . |
| 6 | Oxfordshire and west Buckinghamshire beginning to ease off with the rush hour traffic at the moment , not too bad at all at the moment . |
| 7 | The colleges were back at the end of September , holidays had ended , the metropolis was beginning to settle down for the winter . |
| 8 | Having cruelly ignored the band for two years as they dragged their own equipment between some of London 's less than prestigious live dives , people are finally beginning to wake up to the idea of Suede . |
| 9 | They 'd be on cup three or four amid the toast fragments , still relaxed but just beginning to wake up to the day 's promise , when Mrs Goreng and myself would join them for what was left of the luke-warm coffee . |
| 10 | The City was beginning to wake up to the fact that the Labour movement , all told , had a great deal of money at its disposal — especially in the pension funds of Labour-controlled local authorities . |
| 11 | The morning sky was smudged yellow and grey with smoke and the heat was beginning to beat down on the fighting when Dulé gave a leg-up to one of his fellow fighters to scale the stockade . |
| 12 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is a tragedy if law and order is beginning to break down in the north of Somalia , in what is , after all , the old British Somaliland and is now known to local people as Somaliland ? |
| 13 | The next report came in for the 3rd goal , and again said ‘ Leeds are beginning to get back into the match , but Norwich have scored a 3rd ’ … all other reports/comments just mention the goals . |
| 14 | There are signs that latent defects insurance , such as that recommended in the BUILD report , is beginning to take off in the insurance market . |
| 15 | It was a glorious day , warm and sunny with hardly a cloud in the sky , but by late afternoon a fresh breeze was beginning to blow in from the west . |
| 16 | He could see the River Thames below with the new high-rise housing blocks already beginning to show up on the skyline . |