Example sentences of "began [to-vb] up [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the day wore on they heard everywhere around them the rill of running water , and grass began to poke up through the snow in clumps . |
| 2 | Here , with the concentration on labour-intensive crops , not only large estates with hired labour but large peasant farms also flourished , and even began to catch up with the estates . |
| 3 | Six miles away , at the mouth of the estuary , the four big transporters , converted specially for the task , lifted one by one from the pad and began to form up in a line across the river . |
| 4 | Cars began to draw up amid the rubble and whole families , 60 or 70 people in all , climbed out of them to view the silent barricade . |
| 5 | When the interior began to heat up as a result of radioactivity , volcanoes and fumaroles erupted , pumping out vast quantities of carbon dioxide . |
| 6 | At five to eight , the deadline , I decided to make a run for it , and was within sight of the doors when , without any warning at all , my stomach muscles suddenly began to roll up like a shop blind and I was violently and horribly sick . |
| 7 | Slowly , he moved nearer to me , but just then the first wild man began to get up from the ground . |
| 8 | As for the Radicals , during 1935 the party began to break up under the strains of the relationship with the CEDA and a succession of financial scandals . |
| 9 | The night before Nenna and her two daughters were due to leave England , storm weather began to blow up on the Reach . |