Example sentences of "began [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The so this alleyway has been here since at least sixteen ninety , probably rather earlier when the house began to go down the drain as it were , down the plughole . |
| 2 | The car 's powerful engine began to tick in the silence as it cooled in the mild evening breeze . |
| 3 | Foam began to spread through the air as the fire-fighting systems reacted automatically to the emergency . |
| 4 | This situation began to change under the Yorkists as Edward IV built up the royal estates and improved their management . |
| 5 | Sometimes the wheelbarrow was stuck so firmly that the aluminium honeycomb began to rip from the rim as I pushed . |
| 6 | She began to move through the house as she had done before , opening doors , now trying to force doors which would not open . |
| 7 | Since the machine began to move towards the water as soon as they were inside , changing in its damp , smelly and retracted confines was none too easy , despite the lure of their newly acquired bathing costumes . |