Example sentences of "began [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had the air of an aristocrat and as he turned to gaze at Blackberry from his great , brown eyes , Hazel began to see himself as a ragged wanderer , leader of a gang of vagabonds . |
| 2 | You began to see them in the expensive cars . |
| 3 | Bob Rafelson had been toiling with Nicholson 's friend and associate Carol Eastman on a script for a new film and as it came towards completion , they began to see it as a perfect vehicle for BBS to capitalize on its success with Easy Rider . |
| 4 | Then , slowly , she reached for her brush from the dresser , and began to slide it through the unruly tangle of her hair , taming the fly-away curls until they settled into a softly gleaming curtain that fell over her shoulders . |
| 5 | Far from resenting Lucien 's new-found favour , the other vibrancers in the house began to treat him with a new respect once his alliance with Jeopardy became common knowledge . |
| 6 | We began to treat him like a strange alien person who need to be over-protected , who needed to be shielded from outsiders and the press . |
| 7 | And the Cid began to encourage them with a loud voice , shouting God and Santiago ! |
| 8 | She began to mince them into a fragrant green hill on the board in front of her . |
| 9 | Gently , he began to massage her with a greasy perfumed oil . |
| 10 | On the Left Bank the Germans began to find themselves at an increasing tactical disadvantage . |
| 11 | The Socialist League began to find itself in the same critical relationship with the Labour Party which had forced its predecessor , the ILP , to disaffiliate . |
| 12 | The cat began to stalk her through the blade-broad iris leaves with such solemnity that she laughed and paused even longer , to play with him , and was cheered . |
| 13 | For Laura , work had now become an end in itself ; although some of her colleagues began to describe her as a workaholic it was more that she found working a pleasurable state . |
| 14 | As the sow came at him he allowed her to run her head into the bin then , bent double , he began to back her towards the open door . |
| 15 | Matthei had been in post since 1978 , but in the late 1980s he had been the first among the military leadership to recognize the strength of the democratic opposition and the inevitability of political change and , as a result , began to distance himself from the military hardliners . |
| 16 | Moses , for instance , was a whimpering mass of inferiority as God began to commission him at the burning bush . |
| 17 | And she , in turn , knowingly and secretly absorbing his stare as she listened to her chattering companions , began to dismiss him as a potential client . |
| 18 | His face was scarlet and twisted with hate and he began to attack me like a wild animal . |
| 19 | Towards the end of the nineteenth century this belief began to impress itself upon a few mature minds that were open to a concept of childhood quite different from that of an earlier age , when children tended to be regarded as nothing better than undeveloped adults . |
| 20 | As Uncle George drove off , Carol began to tell them about the strange flight she 'd had on the broomstick , but then her gaze was caught by several dark objects lying in the snow of the lane ahead . |
| 21 | Yes , and I remember the tanks moving down Whitehall ; or at any rate I remember the picture I had of them in my head as Tilly Tilling , in the middle of a history class , suddenly began to tell us about the military putsch that was coming . |
| 22 | The ship reached the coastline just after sunrise and began to follow it in a south-easterly direction down to the sea . |