Example sentences of "[noun] begin [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She listened , still half drugged from sleep , straining her ears intently , a touch of uneasiness making her blood begin to pound like a deep sea-swell in her veins . |
| 2 | She felt her pulses begin to beat in a different rhythm . |
| 3 | The champagne reception — at which Kylie began to demonstrate for the first time a new found confidence with both press and public — also gave them the perfect opportunity to milk their golden child 's latest achievement , three UK gold discs for ‘ Kylie ’ the LP , and the singles ‘ I Should Be So Lucky ’ and ‘ Got To Be Certain ’ . |
| 4 | In the ensuing argument , McNall began to wrestle with a young Nez Perce named Wilhautyah ( Wind Blowing ) for possession of the Indian 's gun . |
| 5 | As kite rallies began to get into the full swing of a tightly packed annual diary of events from the early 1980s , so a new trend developed . |
| 6 | Soft light beginning to shimmer on the still water . |
| 7 | ‘ A reluctant light began to spread over the eastern sky . |
| 8 | They turned , staying in the centre of Cheapside as the melting snow began to slide from the sloping tiled roofs . |
| 9 | As he spoke a dark pool of blood began to gather under the luxuriant mane of Harriet 's auburn hair which had escaped from the loosened snood and spread slowly over the ground . |
| 10 | As you know , blood begins to settle in the lowest part of the body as soon as the heart stops pumping it around . |
| 11 | At the second attempt she made the connection and heard the telephone begin to ring at the other end . |
| 12 | As a result of the feeling of greater ease , decorative touches and small colouristic accents begin to appear in the smaller canvases of both men . |
| 13 | Footsteps began to crunch across the frozen rock towards the entrance . |
| 14 | From the Second World War the percentage of local government income derived from grants increased steadily and although the proportion began to fall during the 1980s ( as a result of public expenditure restraint policies ) it is still sufficient to provide central government with a powerful instrument for influencing local authorities . |
| 15 | Three days later , as the sun began to set on a cloudless horizon , we reached the ‘ comforts ’ of the highest permanent army outpost . |
| 16 | Sarekat Islam was damaged by its association with the PKI : hence , as Sukarno began to appear on the political stage , there was something of a vacuum . |
| 17 | However , GKR began to flourish in the early 1980s , not so much in financial services as across the board in industry . |
| 18 | His limbs began to disintegrate into a bubbling mass of fat , water and blood . |
| 19 | As will be discussed in Chapter 10 , the first big generation of owner-occupiers began to retire from the 1960s onwards . |
| 20 | The saxophone took off again , Damian flicked her away from him , spun her back , and she was breathless with excitement , her body his to command — and how he commanded it ! — as Jerry Hall began to shout like a Spanish gypsy , while a harmonica came rolling in to harden the beat . |
| 21 | I chewed betel with the barefoot skipper in his wheel-house until , as the old tub began to roll in the outside channel , I realised that had been a mistake . |
| 22 | The wood began to fill with an eerie chattering sound , almost birdlike . |
| 23 | Hot sulphurous winds began to rake through the empty Delhi avenues . |
| 24 | The revolutionary Marxist ideology adopted by the intelligentsia began to merge with the working-class movement . |
| 25 | Gradually , the number of individual objectors prepared to enter the fray began to expand outside the initial handful . |
| 26 | The bishops ' pre-occupation , too , was with structured administration , which the registers of their activities begin to record from the thirteenth century . |
| 27 | This ‘ cleanness ’ was not an exclusively English taste ( even if it is elaborated for us in the poems of an exceptional writer ) , for Sir Gawayn and the Green Knight is outstandingly ‘ French ’ among the English romances and gives a superbly articulate voice to international courtly values at a time when art-historians begin to speak of an International Style in the visual arts . |
| 28 | The Collector , surveying the crowd , felt a little hope begin to stir in the hungry and despairing bodies below him . |
| 29 | The offer of longer-term rewards for continuous employment in Japanese firms is common to large and small firms but as Figure 3.4 indicates the profiles begin to diverge after the fifteenth year . |
| 30 | It may also bring to a head a number of crucial questions about spreading priorities — for example , defence versus social security spending — when the oil revenues begin to decline over the coming years . |